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CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA 



BEING 



A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE HAHNEMANN 
MEDICAL COLLEGE, OF PHILADELPHIA 

BY THE EATE 



E. A. FARRINGTON, M. D. 



REPORTED PHONOGRAPHICAEEY BY 



CLARENCE BARTLETT, M. D. 



WITH A MEMORIAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR, BY 



AUG. KORNDCERFER, M. D. 
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FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED BY 

HARVEY FARRINGTON, M. D. 
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PHILADELPHIA : 

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1908 






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Katered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1896 

BY MRS. ELIZ. A. FARRINGTON 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 

Copyrighted 1908, by ELTZ. A. FARRINGTON 



PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



During the year following the death of Dr. Farrington, the editor 
of this volume published several of the lectures here presented, in the 
Hahnemannian Monthly, North American Journal of Homoeopathy ■, and 
Monthly Homoeopathic Review. These were well received by the pro- 
fession. Some of them were, moreover, translated and published in 
German, French, and Spanish journals. A number of physicians 
expressed the desire to have the lectures appear in book form. The 
consent of Mrs. Farrington to such publication was therefore obtained, 
the Doctor's manuscript was placed at our disposal, and Dr. S. Iyilien- 
thal kindly consented to revise the lectures after their completion in 
manuscript. 

In order that the work should be thoroughly representative of Dr. 
Farrington, those concerned in its preparation for the press decided 
that the author's style should be closely followed. These lectures are 
therefore presented exactly as delivered, excepting where a change was 
suggested by his manuscript or by his published writings. 

There have also been incorporated in the volume numerous abstracts 
from the comparisons in the " Studies in Materia Medica," published 
in the Hahneman?iia?i Monthly in the years 1880, 1881, and 1882. 
These will be found in the lectures on Lachesis, Apis, Cantharis, and 
Sepia. The lecture on Moschus is essentially a reprint of the study of 
that remedy in the Hahnemannian for January, 1882. The editor 
feels no necessity for apologizing for this addition of the above-men- 
tioned matter to the lectures proper, for, as Dr. Korndcerfer truly says 
in his memorial sketch of his deceased friend, they "belong to the 
classics of our school. ' ' The regret is that they cannot be incorporated 
in their entirety. 

The reader must remember that in a course consisting of seventy- 
two lectures, it would be utterly impossible to include a complete 
presentation of the homoeopathic materia medica. This fact was always 
kept in mind by Dr. Farrington. It was his aim, therefore, to present 
to his students, only such matter as would enable them to establish 
their knowledge of materia medica on such a firm foundation that 
1 



2 PREFACE. 

their post-graduate study of that science would be a comparatively 
easy task. How well he succeeded in his object can be attested by the 
many physicians whose fortune it was to receive instruction from his 
lips. 

It should be said of Dr. Farrington's manuscript, that it gave 
marked evidence of constant study. Interlineations and notes of refer- 
ence were frequently added. Erasures were few, for what he therein 
recorded was only placed there after having been thoroughly confirmed 
by the clinical experience of himself, or of some other competent 
observer. Fully did he realize the importance to homoeopathy of a 
materia medica which should be, in all respects, perfect. 

CLARENCE BARTl,F/rT, M. D. 
Philadelphia, October ist, 1887. 



PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



When the first edition of this work was published, in the autumn 
of 1887, a large number of copies were printed, sufficient, it was 
thought, to satisfy the demand for some time to come. So flattering 
was the reception accorded it, this large edition has been exhausted, 
and a new one has been called for. In the preparation of this the 
editor has had, as before, the assistance of the author's manuscript 
lectures, together with notes of students whose privilege it was to 
receive instruction from Dr. Farrington in more recent years than was 
accorded the editor. The result of this revision has been the addition 
of a number of symptomatic indications for drugs. These additions 
have been pretty evenly divided over the whole work. 

In presenting the second edition of Farrington' s Clinical Materia 
Medica to the profession, the editor cannot refrain from expressing 
his admiration of the thoroughness of the work of its distinguished 
author. A review of the index shows that more than four hundred 
drugs were considered by him; many of these received but minor men- 
tion, while others he treated of in extenso, as their importance war- 
ranted. The therapeutic index shows, moreover, that hardly a class 
of ailments to which humanity is liable but what has received more or 
less attention. The therapeutics of diseases like scarlatina, diphtheria, 
and typhoid fever, as to be expected from their importance, were 
thoroughly considered. Others, but seldom met with in actual prac- 
tice, were given but a passing notice. In all his teachings Dr. Far- 
rington showed himself to be a practical physician, fully alive to the 
demands to be made upon the needs of the student on entering practice. 

October i, 1890. C. B. 



PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 



Owing to the continued favor of the profession, the second edition 

of my father's work is now exhausted, and it becomes necessary to 

issue a third, which is herewith presented in substantially the same 

form with the one preceding. I have gone over the whole work, 

carefully comparing the text with the original material and correcting 

one or two palpable errors, also pressing into service a large volume 

of notes on Materia Medica, chiefly comparisons, which was not made 

use of before. 

Harvey Farrington, M. D. 
Philadelphia, Pa., August 19, 1896. 



PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. 



Farrington's Clinical Materia Medica has made for itself a place 
among the classics of homoeopathic literature. It has become a 
standard text book in the colleges, and is consulted by practicians 
generally in this country and, in fact, wherever Homoeopathy has 
made its way. It has been translated and published in the German 
language, in Spanish (Mexican), and an edition in Bengalee (Indian) 
has been contemplated, if not already issued. 

Though lacking in the perfection that the author himself would 
have given it had he written it with his own hand, it nevertheless 
bears the charm and freedom of expression of the fluent lecturer who 
is well-versed in the materia medica and a past-master in its practical 
application. In editing this, the fourth edition of the work, these 
essential characteristics have been faithfully preserved. The revision 
has consisted chiefly in the elimination of a few inelegant expressions, 
due to a too literal transcription from the notes of the stenographer. 
Over forty pages of new matter have been added, including a full 
lecture on Natrum arsenicatum. But, with only a few minor excep- 
tions, these additions have been made from original manuscript notes 
and articles from current literature by the author himself. 

Much time has been expended in compiling the indexes, which will 
now be found to contain the names of some of the lesser remedies 
mentioned in comparisons, the alkaloids and other references previously 
omitted. 

To master the homoeopathic materia medica requires years of study 
and close application. Those who are conscientiously toiling to this 
end will find much in the following pages to lighten their labor. 

In conclusion, I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to my brother, 
Dr. Ernest A. Farrington, for valuable assistance in preparing the 
work for the press. 

Harvey Farrington, M. D. 

Chicago, Iu,., January, 1908. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGB 

In Memoriam, 9 

Lecture I. Introductory, 17 

II. Animal Kingdom, 25 

III. The Ophidia — Lachesis, 33 

IV. The Ophidia — L,achesis {continued), . . . 49 

V. The Ophidia — L,achesis {continued), 62 

VI. Archnida — Mygale, Lycosa tarentula, Tarentula Cubensis, 

Aranea diadema and Theridion curassavicum, 73 

VII. Cantharis, 84 

VIII. Hymenoptera — Apis mellifica, 98 

IX. Moschus, 115 

X. Sepia, 122 

XI. Sepia {continued), 133 

XII. Nosodes — Psorinum and Ambra grisea, 147 

XIII. Secale cornutum, .... 153 

XIV. The Vegetable Kingdom — Apocynacese; Apocynum canna- 

binum, Oleander, Vinca minor and Alstonia scholaris, 161 

XV. Gelsemium sempervirens, 169 

XVI. Nux vomica, 177 

XVII. Ignatia, 197 

XVIII. Spigelia anthelmintica, Curare and the Juglandacese, . . 205 
XIX. Aracese — Arum triphyllum, Caladium, Dracontium and 

Pothos fcetida, 208 

XX. Anacardiacese — Anacardium orientale, 217 

XXI. Rhus toxicodendron, 223 

XXII. Compositae — Arnica montana, Artemisia vulgaris, Absin- 
thium, Millefolium, Taraxacum, Kupatorium perfolia- 
tum, Artemisia abrotanum, . ., 237 

XXIII. Cina and Chamomilla, ... 246 

XXIV. Melanthaceae — Colchicum, Veratrum album, Veratrum 

viride and Sabadilla, 251 

XXV. Menispermaceae — Cocculuslndicus, 259 

XXVI. Papaveraceae — Opium, . 264 

XXVII. Sanguinaria and Chelidonium, 274 

XXVIII. Cucurbitaceae— Colocynth, 284 

XXIX. Bryonia alba, . . 289 

XXX. Coniferae — Abies nigra, Sabina juniperis, Terebinthina, 
Pix liquida and Thuja occidentalis ; Euphorbiaceae — 

Croton tiglium, etc., 304 

XXXI. Ranunculaceae — Aconitum napellus, 314 

XXXII. Actea racemosa, Ranunculus bulbosus and Ranunculus 

sceleratus, . 326 

XXXIII. Helleborus and Staphisagria, 334 



8 CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

IyECTURE XXXIV. Pulsatilla, 343 

XXXV. Rubiacese — Cinchona rubra, 363 

XXXVI. Ipecacuanha and Coffea, 376 

XXXVII. Scrophulariacese — Digitalis purpurea, L,inaria vulgaris, 
Verbascum, Gratiola, L,eptandra Virginica and Eu- 
phrasia, . . 387 

XXXVIII. Baptisia tinctoria, 399 

XXXIX. Solanacese — Belladonna, 404 

Xly. Stramonium and Hyoscyamus, 423 

XL/I. Tabacum, Dulcamara, Capsicum and Glonoin, 432 

Xlyll. I/ycopodiuni clavatum, 439 

XL,III. The Umbelliferse — Conium maculatum, Ammoniacum 
gummi, Asafoetida, ^Sthusa cynapium ; the Berberi- 

dacese — Berberis and Podophyllum, 447 

XLIV. Mineral Kingdom — Selenium, 454 

XLV. Sulphur, 463 

XI/VI. The Carbon Group — Carbo vegetabilis, . . 479 

XI/VTL Carbo animalis, Graphites and Petroleum, 488 

XL, VIII. Halogens, Bromine and Iodine; and Spongia, 501 

XLJX. The Acids— Fluoric and Muriatic acids, 515 

Iv. Phosphoric and Sulphuric acids, ... 526 

IvI. Nitric, Hydrocyanic and Picric acids, 533 

LJI. Silicea, ... .542 

LIU. Arsenicum album, 549 

IylV. Phosphorus, 562 

IvV. The Preparations of Antimony — Antimonium crudum and 

Antimonium tartaricum, ... . 576 

LVI. The Preparations of Mercury 584 

LVIL The Noble Metals— Aurum, ■ • 600 

IvVIII. The Preparations of Silver — Argentum nitricum and Ar- 

gentum metallicum, 605 

LJX. Platina, Palladium and Alumina, 612 

L,X. Plumbum and Stannum, . . 621 

IvXI. Cuprum and Zincum, 628 

LXII. Ferrum and the Magnesia Salts — Magnesia carb. and Mag- 
nesia mur., 639 

IvXIII. Baryta carb. , Strontiana carb. and Lithium carb. , . ... 649 
LXIV. The Ammonium Preparations — Ammonium carb. , Ammon- 
ium mur. and Ammonium phos. , 657 

LXV. Salts of Ivime — Calcarea ostrearum, 666 

IyXVI. Calcarea phosphorica and Hepar, . ... 678 

IyXVII. Preparations of Soda — Natrum carb. and Natrum sulph., . . 689 

IyXVIII. Natrum muriaticum and Natrum arsenicatum, 696 

IyXIX. Borax veneta, 706 

L/XX. Salts of Potash — Kali bromatum and Kali hydriodicum, . . 712 

L,XXI. Kali bichromicum, 720 

LXXII. Causticum, 729 

LXXIII. Kali carb., 736 

Index of Remedies, . 743 

Therapeutic Index, 777 



Un flfeemorianv 



PROFESSOR E. A. FARRINGTON, M. D. 

BY AUG. KORNDCERFER, M. D., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

The subject of this sketch, Dr. Ernest A. Farrington, was born 
January i, 1847, at Williamsburg, Long Island, N. Y., and died at 
Philadelphia, December 17, 1885. During his early years his family 
removed to Philadelphia, at which place he received his education, 
and rapidly rose to eminence in his profession. 

Having already, during his early childhood, given evidence of ex- 
ceptional intellectual ability, he passed through his school life with 
the highest commendation of his teachers. 

After his entrance to the High School he seemed to develop an in- 
tellectual capacity rarely witnessed in one so young. He grasped and 
utilized facts with such vigor that his teachers looked upon him as 
quite a phenomenal boy. Often have I heard his teachers, professors 
of the High School, remark upon his aptness, clearness of thought, 
and remarkable proficiency in the various studies embraced in the 
curriculum of the school. 

It may here be worthy of passing note, that, during his entire school 
and student life, he endeared himself to his teachers, not less by his 
genial manners, than by his remarkable intellectual qualities. 

Having completed the prescribed course at the High School, he 
made a most brilliant examination and was graduated, not only at the 
head of his class, but with the highest average to that time attained 
by any graduate of the institution. 

During the following summer he visited his birthplace, spending the 
summer there and in New York city. Early in the fall he returned to 
Philadelphia, there to resume his favorite occupation, study. 

*From the Hahnemannian Monthly, January, 1886. 



IO IN MKMORIAM. 

Under the preceptorship of his brother, H. W. Farrington, M. D., 
he in the fall of 1866, matriculated in the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania. 

Here, again, the characteristics of his early life became the remark 
of his fellow-students, and it was not long before he was looked upon 
as one of the brightest students of his class. His quickness of percep- 
tion, his ready memory, his devotion to study, and conscientious esti- 
mate of the responsibilities of his calling, marked him as one of the 
most promising students of our school. Coupled with all this, was an un- 
usually strong religious bent of mind. His religious views were, how- 
ever, of that happy type which but illuminate life's way, never casting 
shadows of doubt or gloom. His highest aim was to do right because 
it was right; that he accomplished this, all who knew him will attest. 

When the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia was char- 
tered, in 1867, it became a question of serious import to him as to 
whether he should continue in the College with which he was con- 
nected or join the new institution. After lengthened consideration, he 
decided to sever his relationship with the old College. He became the 
second matriculant of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. 
Here, again, he won unstinted praise, and graduated March, 1868, 
having enforced the full conviction upon the minds of all, both Faculty 
and class, that he had no superior in the class of "68." To the honor 
of all, let it be said that envy never tainted the commendation of one; 
every graduate delighted to accord to him his full meed of praise. 

He entered practice immediately after his graduation, establishing 
himself at the residence of his father, 161 6 Mount Vernon Street. 
His arduous labors in the pursuit of knowledge, during the years of 
college life, followed by even greater efforts during his early practice, 
made preceptible inroads upon his otherwise strong constitution; this 
led him, during the summer of 1869, to take a short European trip, 
from which he returned much improved in health He reentered prac- 
tice with renewed vigor, and speedily succeeded in securing a large 
and appreciative clientele. 

On the 13th of September, 1871, he consummated in marriage an 
engagement which had for some time existed with Miss Elizabeth 
Aitkin, of Philadelphia, an event which brought more than usual joy, 
as in his wife he found a most congenial and helpful spirit, both as to 
his professional and religious life. Four children, three boys and one 
girl, have blessed this union. 



IN MEMORIAM. II 

Dr. Farrington was essentially a teacher among men. Already we 
find him, in the spring of 1869, filling a lecturer's appointment as 
teacher of Forensic Medicine in the spring course of the Hahnemann 
Medical College. These lectures proved to be so satisfactory that the 
Faculty, on the resignation of the Professor of Forensic Medicine, 
after the session of 1869-70, elected him to fill the vacancy. Within 
two years, the chair of Pathology and Diagnosis becoming vacant, he 
was appointed to fill the same, and in 1874, upon the resignation of 
Dr. Guernsey, then Professor of Materia Medica, he was called to fill 
that most important chair. 

His ambition was now about to realize the attainment of its highest 
aim. This had really been his true field of labor — here his .deepest 
studies were made; here was, indeed, his life work. 

Possessed of superior analytical powers, he never felt satisfied to ac- 
cept a view or theory save it were demonstrably true; he, therefore, made 
deep and thorough research and study upon every question involved 
in the subject of homoeopathy; the law, dosage and potency questions, 
all were subjects of much interest, but above all, his delight lay in the 
study of the Materia Medica. 

His daily association with Hering quickened this his natural desire, 
and he was soon recognized by that master spirit of our school as one 
well fitted to a place in the highest rank among the expounders of that 
most intricate science, Materia Medica. Hering delighted to say, 
" When I am gone, Farrington must finish my Materia Medica." 

His labors in this direction were not restricted to simply reviewing 
old provings, but were rounded out unto fulness by personally super- 
vising provings of both old and new drugs. While he certainly pos- 
sessed a wonderful memory for symptoms, the most prominent feature 
of his teaching may nevertheless be said to have been his ability to 
thoroughly analyze the specific drug action, showing not only the 
superficial but also the deeper relationship of symptoms. 

Family and class relationship of drugs he studied with deepest 
interest. In fact, his " Studies in Materia Medica," a few of which 
have been published in the Hahnemannian Monthly ', belong to the 
classics of our school. 

On his election to the chair of Materia Medica. he devoted much of 
his time to the development of a method which, while full and com- 
prehensive, would at the same time present a simplicity which would 
enable every student to intelligently study this most difficult subject. 



12 IN MKMORIAM. 

He infused such new life into this usually prosy subject, that it soon 
became the favorite hour with many, and to all an hour of interest and 
profit. To the earnest student it became rather a recreation than a 
task. His analytical mind carried the students through labyrinths of 
symptoms and mazes of modalities, with such clear and concise direc- 
tions as to the way, that the thoughtful student might ever after feel 
able to traverse the same alone. 

His writings all bear the impress of a master mind. Already in 
187 1, scarcely three years subsequent to his graduation, we find him 
dealing with the philosophical elucidation of drug prescribing, in lan- 
guage indicating depth of knowledge rarely found even among our 
oldest practitioners. In illustration, permit a short quotation from his 
report of a case published in the Hahnema?inian Monthly, April, 187 1. 

"It is a singular fact that all of the tribe of Senecionidecs, Ord. 
Composites which we have proved (Cina, Artem. vulg., Cham., Tana- 
cet., Arnic, Senecio grac.) have relief from some form of motion. 

"The Artemisia vulgaris resembles the Cina in nervous troubles, 
but, as it is in conjunctive relationship, it can not be used immediately 
before or after Cina. As a disjunctive relative and hence one that fol- 
lows well, Silicea corresponds to the somnambulistic state, and Silicea, 
Nux vom. and Causl., to the irritation of the solar plexus giving rise 
to spasm. 

" The Absinthium (wormwood), another member of the Artemisise, 
when drunk in brandy (a famous drink used to stimulate the brain by 
actors, etc.), I have seen produce the delirium embriosorum, which 
was only relieved by pacing the floor, showing again the general relief 
from motion." 

Thus we find him, as a beginner in years, treating the Materia 
Medica as by the hand of a master. The literature of our school has 
been greatly enriched by his pen; for though he did not strive to gratify 
ambition in giving to the profession massive volumes, he performed that 
which he felt duty to demand, i. e., gave of his 'time in work not only 
upon his lectures, but also to societies, and in our journal literature. 

The American Journal of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, the Hahnc- 
mannian Monthly, the No?th American Journal of Homoeopathy, and 
other journals, have each received valuable articles from his pen. His 
Studies in Materia Medica alone, published in the Hahnemannian 
Monthly, aggregate about two hundred pages, and his comparisons, 
published as an appendix to the American fournal of Homoeopathic 
Materia Medica, from 1873 to 1875, embrace over 150 pages more. 
His other articles were numerous and instructive. 



IN MEMORIAM. 13 

Dr. Farrington was a homoeopathist by conviction. With him it 
was not a light thing to be a physician, and he could only practice 
that which he could see to be true. Expediencies, for the sake of 
gaining the eclat of those who, through want of knowledge, grant un- 
stinting praise to pleasant error, had no attraction for him. He pre- 
ferred to sacrifice and to sustain his own sense of doing right rather 
than gain financial success by pandering to the ignorance of wealth, 
where it demanded departure from the law of cure in an experimental 
treatment of disease. 

The influence which such a mind must exert upon a profession can- 
not be overestimated. Essentially scientific in its bent, progressive in 
its character, earnest in its labors, logical in its reasonings, and philo- 
sophical in its judgments, the results reached even most presistent op- 
ponents were compelled to receive with respect. While thus a true and 
most consistent homoeopath, he necessarily became identified with 
every movement which might tend toward the advancement of learn- 
ing. Especially did he desire to see medical education brought to a 
far higher level than has ever been attained in this country. 

Dr. Farrington was also an active participant in our County Society 
work. On the floor during debate, he was listened to with that atten- 
tion which ability only can command. In the Chair, which for three 
successive years he occupied, he presided with dignity and justive. 

He was also a member of the State Society and of the American 
Institute of Homoeopathy, which latter he joined in 1872. For many 
years he was a member of its " Committee on Drug Provings," during 
which time he was also identified with its Bureau of Materia Medica. 
At the time of his decease he was chairman of that bureau. In 1884 
the Institute appointed him a member of its Editorial Consulting Com- 
mittee on the new " Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy," etc. 

In December, 1879, when the Hahnemannian Monthly was purchased 
by the Hahnemann Club of Philadelphia, he was selected by his col- 
leagues of the Club as the sole editor of the journal, but on account of 
impairment of health and multiplicity of duties he felt impelled to de- 
cline the charge; though later, at the earnest solicitation of the Club, 
supplemented by that of the General Editor, he accepted the position 
of Contributing Editor, which position he filled until the time of his 
death; in fact, his last article, a book review, was written but a few 
weeks prior to his decease. 

Thus we find him throughout his life striving to accomplish the 



14 IN MEMORIAM. 

work which he valued so highly. No labor seemed too great, no effort 
too severe, so long as it tended to promote the advance toward that 
standard to which he felt the profession should aspire. An earnest 
advocate of higher education in general, he especially longed for the 
time when the professional standard should be placed at its highest. 

Dr. Farrington was not less esteemed for his generous friendship 
than for his professional ability. He was noticeably a man of strong 
convictions nevertheless, with such characteristic breadth of thought 
and liberality of mind that he never allowed the strongest antagonism 
in scientific views to chill a friendship once formed. 

His genial manners rendered him a most delightful companion, as 
all who ever had the opportunity to enjoy social intercourse with him 
will heartily attest. 

His last illness began about the 14th of December, 1884, prior to 
which time he had contracted a cold to which he gave slight heed. 
Subsequently, owing to necessary exposure in the performance of his 
professional duties, laryngitis set in; he, nevertheless, delivered several 
lectures after the throat symptoms had assumed decided severity. 
During a lecture prior to the Christmas holidays, aphonia took the 
place of the existing hoarseness, rendering further lecturing impos- 
sible. 

It became necessary for him to secure a substitute during the month 
of January, 1885, but feeling much improved, he insisted upon resum- 
ing lectures during the month of February. He continued his duties 
in the College until after the Spring examination. During this time 
the disease invaded the bronchia, developing into a severe bronchitis; 
this, however, yielded partially during the latter part of March and 
April. At this time the most careful physical examination did not 
reveal the slightest sign of lung involvement. He now felt convinced 
that a trip to Europe would materially advance his recovery. He 
therefore sailed for Europe, accompanied by his wife, on the 9th day 
of May. On the 31st of May he wrote from Paris: " I am about the 
same, as yet, but live in hope." Under the advice of Dr. Herrmann, 
of Paris, he concluded to "go to Baden- Weiler, a beautiful little town 
in the Black Forest, noted for its mild climate, mountainous scenery, 
and restful surroundings." Here again disappointment came to him 
in that a wet season set in, which continued until his departure, 
although he remained for several weeks hoping for a favorable change. 
A stay of several weeks at Brighton, England, highly recommended 



IN MEMORIAM. 15 

by several English physicians, afforded no relief. Much discouraged 
he finally sailed for home. Disappointment and injury alone had re- 
sulted from his journey. 

He now began to feel that his race was nearly run; that the great 
work in which he had engaged must be laid aside, and hopes long 
entertained must be abandoned. The first realization brought a feeling 
of bitter disappointment, which, however, speedily gave place to a calm 
conviction that the Lord's way was best. His mind seemed at perfect 
ease, and though he made fruitless efforts to obtain relief, he maintained 
an unwavering confidence in the law of cure. Some of his lay friends, 
seeing that homoeopathy must fail, strongly urged him to seek the 
advice of a prominent allopathist. This he positively refused, after- 
wards remarking to the writer: " If I must die, I want to die a Chris- 
tian." His faith in the law was unbounded; he believed it divine in 
origin, and therefore wholly true. 

In religious faith he was a Swedenborgian, holding devoutly to the 
views of that great expounder of God's law. In his church life, as in 
his professional, he showed that zeal and learning which soon made 
him a light among his brethren. He was loved and esteemed by his 
church as but few laymen at his age are loved. Conscientious, zealous 
and learned, he seemed destined to be a leader among men. He was 
early called to his work on earth — that work he faithfully performed. 
Early the call came to his work on high — confidently he entered 
thereon. Seeking higher planes of usefulness here, he looked forward 
to his higher field of labor there in pleasurable anticipation. A good 
man has been called away. May his living example inspire many to 
emulation. 



A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 



LECTURE I. 

INTRODUCTORY. 



Today we are to begin our study of Materia Medica. At the out- 
set, it will be necessary to give a rambling review of the subject. 
Before you begin the study of the details of a science, you must 
understand the construction of that science or art. Were it not for 
these underlying laws which string together the Materia Medica into 
one consistent whole you would have no need for lectures on the sub- 
ject. The ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Materia Medica, issued 
by Dr. Allen, of New York, contain over nine thousand pages. These 
do not include clinical symptoms, which would make several thousand 
more. Then recollect, each physician discovers something new each 
year, and so a great mass of knowledge is accumulated by a sort of 
compound multiplication. You can, therefore, well understand why 
the student might be startled at the idea of attempting to master such 
a conglomeration. Nor could he master it, were he to attempt to do 
so by memor} 7 alone. Man's mind is composed of more than memory. 
Memory is the impression made on the mind by a fact. Recollection 
is another qualification of the mind, which enables one to call up the 
facts which have been memorized. It is understood that nothing 
which we take into the memory is ever effaced. It remains there for- 
ever. It may be covered with figurative cobwebs and never brought 
to light, unless the mind is so drilled or so orderly arranged that it 
may be recalled when occasion requires. The mind should be so 
drilled and its various faculties so trained that when an external thing 
occurs similar to an internal fact, i. e., a fact memorized, at once that 
external thing awakens into recollection the fact or facts bearing on 
that subject. This is very apt to be so with our feelings, perhaps 
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1 8 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

more naturally than with our intellects, because the latter require 
more cultivation. Many of us are so strong emotionally that we may 
call up an emotion without any evident effort of the will or any direc- 
tion of the understanding. L,et me give you an example. A man, on 
one occasion, was driving along a country road, and ran over a dog 
and horribly mangled the poor animal. This made him feel very sick. 
The event was apparently forgotten. Several years later he was driv- 
ing along the same road, never thinking of the incident, until he came 
to the spot where the accident happened, when immediately the same 
sensation of sickness occurred. Then the impression which was made 
on his mind was recalled, and at once awakened the emotions. Thus 
must be the intellectual mind of the man who would master the science 
of medicine. He must see his patient, and when he sees his patient it 
awakens in his mind the picture of the remedy. This has been termed 
instinct, but it is not. To do this he must study persistently. You 
see a plrysician old in years come into a sick-room. At once he says, 
this patient needs Sulphur. How did he know that ? It was not sec- 
ond sight on his part; but through thirty or forty years' experience 
he had been studying Sulphur, had been forming in his mind images 
of Sulphur, and living ideas of Sulphur. The moment he sees these 
in his patient, that moment he recollects Sulphur. If he had not the 
idea of that remedy in his mind, he could not see it in his patient. 
Now, I ask of you not to try to jump over these years that must pass 
between the beginning and the ending of the art of medicine, and do 
not make yourselves prophets before your time. 

In order to bring some system out of this chaos of Materia Medica, 
it will be necessary to adopt some plan of study. What is that plan, 
is asked by every student; one teacher answers in one way, another in 
another. The method may not be correct, and yet its results may be 
good. It does well enough for a scaffolding by which you erect your 
building, after which the scaffolding is removed and the building re- 
mains. Some method must be adopted, and that retained to the end. 
In analyzing the method which I have chosen to adopt it may be well 
to begin at the beginning and to carry you on until you may see what 
plan I propose for your adoption. It may not be clear at once. An 
abstract thing is not at once grasped by the mind. It requires to come 
up time after time. What seems difficult at first, is plain enough after 
a while. 

In the first place, I will begin by suggesting an analysis of the drug. 



INTRODUCTORY. 1 9 

We presume now that you have heard of some one substance which 
has been a popular remedy in 3^our part of the country for years. You 
think that it ought to be proved. You proceed to get the necessary 
material. First, you procure 3'our drug. You prepare its tincture 
and then you potentize it. Now, it is a principle of Homoeopathy, to 
which there is no exception, that you shall learn the action of a drug 
on the healthy organism before you use it in practice. That is a rule 
which you cannot neglect. You cannot be too careful, otherwise you 
throw 3'ourself into confusion, doubt and empiricism, and help to fill 
the Materia Medica with "bosh," of which there is enough already 
there. 

What you want to know, is exactly what this medicine will do. 
What would 3^011 think of a machinist who undertook to build a ma- 
chine when he did not know how the parts fitted together? What 
would you think of a physician who does not know the use of the 
tools he is about to emplo3 T ? You now intend to try the effects of this 
drug on some health j 7- person or persons. Will it produce alterations 
in the function or the nutrition of the body or of its organs? If so, a 
symptom or symptoms will be the result. Symptoms, then, are indi- 
cations of alterations in the functions or the nutrition of a part or of 
parts of the bod3 r . I have been accused of stepping down from the 
lofty heights of pure Homoeopathy and dressing n^self in physiologi- 
cal liver3'. The statement made against me is that we cannot know 
wdiat changes are taking place except through symptoms; therefore, 
if one begins to talk about altered tissue, he at once pollutes Homoe- 
opathy. This is true, and it is false. It is true if you take this altered 
tissue alone. It is not true if 3'ou regard this altered tissue as a mani- 
festation of the change in the vital force. I cannot see how there can 
be a symptom which is not at least the result of a change of function. 
I do not mean that 3^011 must give Bryonia because it acts on serous 
membranes. 1 do not mean that you must give Aconite because it pro- 
duces dry skin, heat, etc. I do not sa3' that you shall give Belladonna 
because it produces Iwpersemia of the brain and dilatation of the pupil; 
but I do say that these drugs produce these effects, and if these effects 
are not alterations in function, what are they? We can know changes 
in the vital force only by results, and these results are S3miptoms. 

Now you get S3 r mptoms in your provings. These symptoms 3'ou will 
find to be embraced under two grand classes, subjective and objective. 
The subjective S3 7 mptoms are those which the prover himself experi- 



20 A CLINICAL, MATERIA MEDICA. 

ences, and which he has to express to you in certain language. The 
objective are those which apply directly to your senses. They are such 
as you may see, hear, touch, taste or smell. For instance, if you give 
the drug we are speaking of, and the prover says he feels a pain over 
the right eye, that is a subjective symptom. You cannot see it, touch 
it, taste it or feel it. It does not apply to your senses. You know 
what pain is; you have experienced it; you can appreciate it in your 
own mind. But if a boil is produced by this medicine; if there is a 
cloudy deposit in the urine, or if there are mucous rales or harsh 
sounds in the lungs; if the heart itself is altered in its action; if a wart 
appears on the skin, or if sweat breaks out, you have an objective 
symptom. Now, what will be the alteration in function which these 
objective and subjective symptoms express? They are decrease of 
function, increase of function and alteration of function. If this drug 
produces photophobia, there is increase of function; if, on the other 
hand, it causes blindness so great that the patient can gaze at the sun, 
there is decrease of function; whereas, if it produces cloudiness of the 
cornea or visions of bright stars, there is an alteration of function. 
The prover may have increased urination, decreased urination or brick- 
dust sediment in the urine, this last being an alteration of function. 
So, when we come to speak of a drug, and to tell you what its effect 
on the system is, we will have these three classes with which to deal, 
increase, alteration and decrease. You go on collecting these symp- 
toms, both subjective and objective. If you are skilled in the analysis 
of the excreta of the body, you should make use of your knowledge to 
determine the elimination of urates, phosphates, etc. These are facts, 
and, in their place, are invaluable. I would have you mind this ex- 
pression, in their place, valuable; out of place, valueless and even harmful. 
An increase in the elimination of urea would weigh nothing in the bal- 
ance against the mental state. All symptoms of the Materia Medica 
are not of the same value. They are relative in value. 

We include all the symptoms that we can observe. Then -what have 
we? A mass of symptoms seeming to have no connection at all. They 
come from a human organism that is all order and perfection, and all 
the parts of which work in perfect harmony. When even one of these 
parts is out of order, there must be a certain clue to string these effects 
together and picture a form of disease, and when you get this form of 
disease, what have you ? A pathological state. I hope that no diploma 
will be granted to any man in this class who does not study pathology. 



INTRODUCTORY. 21 

When you have the changes in toto that this substance has made on the 
system, you have the pathology of the case. You have the totality of 
the effects on the system. This grand effect of the drug must be in 
the mind always, qualifying the individual symptoms of the drug. 
You may express this as you choose. Some Call it the genius of the 
drug; others speak of it as the general action of the drug. This you 
must have in your mind or the other symptoms are worthless. Did 
you not do this you would be a mere symptomist, certainly a term of 
reproach. You must know what the whole drug does or you are not 
able to appreciate any one part of the drug. You can find twenty 
drugs with precisely the same symptoms. How will you decide be- 
tween them? x\pparently they are all identical, but not in their gen- 
eral action. How is this general action found? By the study of the 
drug as a whole. But here is a place where physicians may go too 
precipitately and fall into pathology. They say that as Belladonna 
produces a picture of scarlatina and as Arsenicum produces a picture 
of cholera Asiatica, even unto the growths found in the excrement, 
therefore these substances must be the remedies for their respective 
diseases. Baptisia produces a perfect picture of typhoid fever, there- 
fore they say Baptisia must be the remedy in typhoid. 

As we carry out the view I expressed a few minutes ago, when we 
examine a patient for disease we proceed in exactly the same way as 
we do in the case of the proving. We note the changes we see and the 
sensations the patient feels; we look at his tongue, we examine his 
urine, we put all these together and we make a pathological picture of 
that man. Suppose you decide the case to be one of typhoid fever. 
That must not be valued except by comparison, showing how the 
present case differs from the general disease. If the genius of the case 
under treatment suits the genius of Baptisia, and, if you give that 
remedy, the patient will recover whether you call his disease typhoid 
fever or mumps. If the genius of Baptisia does not suit the genius of 
the case, then that remedy will do no good. If the patient has the 
Baptisia symptom, " thinks he is double, or all broken to pieces," that 
drug will not cure unless the genius of Baptisia is there, too. I may 
be permitted to recall a remark of Carroll Dunham. At a certain con- 
sultation there was chosen for a patient a drug which seemed to have 
many of his symptoms, but when Dr. Dunham was asked for his 
opinion as to whether that drug was the similimum, he replied, " No, 
I think not, for the general character of Ignatia does not correspond 
with the general character of the patient, which corresponds to Baryta. 



2 2 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

You will find his most prominent symptoms under Baryta." One 
physician decided for one drug, the other for another. Bach went 
by his study of the drug; one understood Ignatia in part, the other by 
its totality. 

It is my duty to show you this winter the genius of each drug, and 
the relations which drugs bear to one another. I cannot hope to give 
you all that is characteristic of each, but I think that I can give you 
an idea of its genius, and show you how drugs are related so that you 
may fill up the interstices at leisure. You must acknowledge that 
Materia Medica is the most important of all branches, but you cannot 
understand it unless you have a thorough knowledge of the others. 
You must learn symptoms and not mere words, and you cannot put 
any idea into them until you know their meaning; and unless you can 
interpret symptoms you can never learn the genius of a drug. 

Blood and bloodvessels. 

Lymph and its vessels. 

Nerves, brain, cord and sympa- 
thetic; muscles, tendons, liga- 
ments 
Analvsis of a medicine. { Connective tissue. 

Bones, cartilages and joints. 

Serous and synovial membranes. 

Mucous membranes. 

Skin. 
v Organs. 

We now understand a drug as analyzed according to the schema on 
the board. We must see how it affects the blood and bloodvessels, 
the lymph and lymph vessels, the nervous system, including, of course, 
the brain, cord, and sympathetic nervous system. 

The first of these divisions tells us something of the nutrition of the 
body. The second, the lymph, likewise tells us of nutrition and how 
well repair is going on. The muscles, ligaments, etc., tell us how 
the human machine may move; and so we may go through the entire 
schema. 

You will note the deviations from the normal under each of these 
headings. Under the conditions of the blood you will note increase, 
as in plethora or hyperemia; decrease, as in anaemia or ischaemia, 
and alteration, as in chlorosis or pyaemia. The same is true of the 
lymph, which may exhibit plus, minus and change, and so on down 
the list. 



INTRODUCTORY. 23 

When you study the drug by this analysis you quickly arrive at an 
idea of it as a whole, that is, you get the genius of the drug. But 
when you have done that you are not through with your difficulties. 
You must learn to tell one drug from another. 

You go into a field and you see two or three hundred cattle. They 
all look alike to you, yet the man in charge of them knows each one. 
How does he know them? He knows them by certain distinctions 
which he has learned by familiarity with them. So can you know 
one drug from another by studying their points of difference. Drugs 
impinge in their resemblances, and separate in their differences. Thus 
we have another form of study, comparison of drugs. That is just as 
necessary to successful practice as is the first, step, the analysis of the 
drug. 

Then again there are drugs which antidote each other. You may 
have made a mistake. Your patient may be too susceptible to the 
action of the remedy, and you require to modify its effects. It was 
only yesterday that I prescribed Nux vomica for a cold. It relieved 
the patient of his cold, but he became almost crazy with headache. 
He had had an excess of Nux vomica, so I gave him Coffea, and in 
ten minutes his head was better. This was done by simply modifying 
the effects of Nux vomica, not by suppressing the symptom. 

iVgain, there are some remedies which, although they bear a strong 
resemblance to each other, seem as though they ought to be concord- 
ant remedies, yet they T are inimical. 

So you study the Materia Medica, analyzing one drug after the other 
until you have analyzed all. Then you must arrange your remedies 
according to some system in your mind, and so be enabled to recall 
facts as you need them If you study only one remedy, every case 
you see fits that remedy. If you have studied Aconite, every case will 
suggest Aconite Thus you must have Aconite and its confreres side 
by side in your mind, before you can use them successfully in the sick 
room. This is done by systematizing your study. 

Now, then, you will find that drugs hold certain relations to each 
other. You will find five relations. The first I have called the family 
relation, derived from their similarity in origin. When drugs belong 
to the same family they must of necessity have a similar action. For 
instance, the halogens, Chlorine, Iodine, Bromine and Fluorine, have 
many similitudes, because they belong to one family. So, too, with 
remedies derived from the vegetable kingdom. Take, for instance, 
the family to which Arum triphyllum belongs. There you find drugs 



24 A CLINICAL MATERIA MBDICA. 

which resemble each other from their family origin. Take the Ophid- 
ians, and you will be perplexed to tell the differences between Iyachesis, 
Elaps and Crotalus. This resemblance through relationship is some- 
times so nearly identity that these drugs do not follow each other well. 
Take, for example, Ignatia and Nux vomica. Both come from the 
same order of plants; they do not follow each other well, and they do 
not antidote each other. Then we may have drugs which present 
marked similarities in action though dissimilar in origin. These are 
said to be "concordant." Drugs which hold a concordant relation 
may follow each other well. 

There is another relation, that of complement, that is, one drug 
completes a cure which the other begins, but is unable to effect. Such 
a relation exists between Belladonna and Calcarea. 

Next we have the relation of antidote, of which I spoke a few 
moments ago. 

Lastly, we have the relation of enmity, one that I am unable to ex- 
plain to you. It is a fact that certain drugs, although resembling each 
other apparently, will not follow one another with any satisfaction. 
They seem to mix up the case. Such drugs are China and Psorinum, 
Apis and Rhus, Phosphorus and Causticum, and Silicea and Mercury. 

In carrying out these various ideas we must study Materia Medica 
as a natural science, for such it must be intrinsically, although it is as 
yet undeveloped and unworthy of that dignified name in our present 
understanding of it. Nature's laws in no way dispute the known rela- 
tions and actions of drugs. They rather harmonize with them. 

Bach order or class is to receive a separate examination, its resem- 
blances and differences noted and the individual members compared 
with related remedies. Thus is preserved a uniform progression from 
generals to particulars. 

We are now ready to begin our study of the various drugs compos- 
ing the Homoeopathic Materia Medica. For this purpose I have ar- 
ranged the remedies in three grand divisions, according to the king- 
dom of nature from which they are derived, viz.: 
i. Remedies derived from the animal kingdom. 

2. Remedies derived from the vegetable kingdom. 

3. Remedies derived from the mineral kingdom. 

There is also a fourth class of remedies, the nosodes or disease 
products. 

In our next lecture we will begin our study of drugs derived from 
the animal kingdom. 



LECTURE II. 

ANIMAL KINGDOM. 

Today we begin our study of the medicines obtained from the ani- 
mal kingdom. I desire to preface my lecture on these remedies with 
a few remarks relating to their properties in general Many of the 
animal poisons are distinguished by the violence and intensity of their 
action, and by the decided alterations which they produce in both 
structure and function. The blood is often changed in its composition 
and quality. The nervous system suffers and even the lower tissues 
are affected. The whole tendency of these remedies is to produce dis- 
eases, which are never of asthenic character and always of a destructive 
form, tending thus to local as well as to general death of the body. 
We therefore look upon these poisons as medicines which suit deep- 
seated diseases, such, for example, as are accompanied by changes in 
the quality of the blood; such as profoundly affect the nervous centres. 
Consequently they are indicated in typhoid fevers, erysipelatous in- 
flammations, tuberculosis of different organs and tissues of the body, 
and many of those dyscrasiae which underlie and qualify acute dis- 
eases. You will find, if you devote time to the study of this portion 
of the Materia Medica, more time than we can spare or than these lec- 
tures will permit, that they are often necessary to arouse vitality and 
direct the vital forces into a proper channel. 

You will find, too, that these animal poisons are apt to affect the 
mind, especially the emotions. They arouse the lowest qualities in 
human nature, and produce a condition which is truly shocking. 
Some of them arouse the filthiest lust, the most intense anger, and 
passions of a kindred nature. So we may find many of these drugs 
suitable for persons affected with insanity, whether it be the result of 
functional or organic cerebral changes; whether or not it be reflex 
from irregularities in bodily functions. 

You will see by the table which I have placed on the board that we 
have a number of remedies derived from the animal kingdom. 



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Vertebrata < 



Mammalia 

Ophidia 

Pisces 

Batrachia 



Moschus, Castoreum, Mephitis, Oleum 

animale, Hippomanes, Castor equi, 

Lac vaccinum, Lac defloratum, Lac 

caninum, Koumyss, Fel tauri, Fel 

(^ vulpi, Pulmo vulpis. 

f Lachesis, Crotaeus, Bothrops, Ag- 
( kistrodon, Elaps, JVaJa, Vipera. 



j Oleum jeco7 is aselli. 



Bufo rana. 



Mollusca 



Radiata 



Corallium rubmim, Spongia, Medusa, Badiaga. 



Hemiptera 



Coccus cacti, Cimex. 



Hymenoptera \ Apis meeeieica, Vespa, Formica. 



Articulata .J Coleoptera \ Cantharis, Doryphora. 



Orthoptera 



Blatta. 



Arachnid a \ Tarentula, My gale, Theridion, Arauea. 

I have, for convenience of study, divided these animal substances 
according to their natural relations. We have first the Vertebrata. 
Within this grand division of the animal kingdom we note the first 
class, the Mammalia, below this the Ophidia or great variety of ser- 
pents, then the Pisces, or fishes, and, finally, the Batrachia. In the 
higher order of Mammalia we have a large list of remedies; but 
these members of the animal kingdom compose only a small por- 
tion of it. There are many animal drugs of which we know nothing 
but their names; they have been used by one individual without any 
special proving. This is a field which has not been thoroughly inves- 
tigated, and one, too, the investigation of which has encountered 
great opposition. Especially has the Cimex lectularius, the common 
bed-bug, been condemned; but this opposition has extended to other 
remedies of the class. Prejudice goes far. I do not wish to sanction 
these medicines any more than they deserve. Our notions, our preju- 



ANIMAL KINGDOM. 27 

dices, and our appetites affect us all. Reviewing the Mammalia, we 
note first the Moschus, and here another and similar animal substance, 
the Castoreum. I mention these together that you may remember 
them as two substances which act on the nervous system somewhat 
similarly. The origin of Moschus you all know; Castoreum is a similar 
product taken from the beaver, and is a very useful medicine for pa- 
tients, especially women, who are nervous and do not react after ty- 
phoid fever. If, after the fever has spent its force, the patient remains 
irritable, with weak and exhausting sweat, Castoreum helps her at once. 

Next we have here the product from the animal which you all know 
as the skunk, Mephitis putorius. This Mephitis also acts powerfully on 
the nervous system. If taken in a low potency when one is exhausted, 
it tones up the nervous system and relieves the exhaustion. The main 
use of Mephitis, however, is in whooping-cough. It produces a well- 
described hard cough, with well-marked laryngeal spasm and a distinct 
whoop. I have found in using this medicine that it often apparently 
makes the patient worse, while it really tends to shorten the course of 
the disease. When the catarrhal symptoms are slight and the spas- 
modic whoop is marked Mephitis is to be selected. The cough is worse 
at night and after lying down. There is a suffocative feeling; the child 
cannot exhale; convulsions at times ensue. It vomits its food, some- 
times hours after eating. Drinks get into the larynx. In whooping- 
cough you should compare with Mephitis, Corallium rubrum, which 
has, however, smothering before the cough, and great exhaustion after- 
wards. The gasping progresses into repeated crowing inspirations 
until the child becomes black in the face. 

Drosera should also be thought of in this connection. This remedy 
has spells of barking cough, which come so frequently as not to give 
the patient an opportunity to recover the breath. They are especially 
worse after 12 p. m. The child holds each hypochondrium during the 
cough, and if sputum is not raised, vomiting and retching ensue. The 
patient ma)* have a diarrhoea with stools containing bloody mucus. 

Mephitis has also been recommended in the asthma of drunkards. It 
may also be used in the asthma of consumptives when Drosera fails. 
In the last-named condition you may think also of Rumex and Sticta. 
The former of these is to be given when there is aggravation at 2 A. m. 
The latter remedy has been recommended by Dr. K. T. Blake when 
the trouble is associated with splitting headache. The Mephitis pa- 
tient seems to have the power of withstanding extreme cold. He feels 



28 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

less chill}- than usual in cold weather. Washing in ice-cold water 
causes a pleasant sensation. Other symptoms of the drug which are 
worthy of notice are the following: Wandering pains, with pressure 
to urinate; fine nervous vibrations reaching to the bones, causing 
anxiety; awakes at night with congestions to the legs (see Aurum)\ 
legs uneasy, as if they would become insensible; vivid fancies, unfit- 
ting him for mental labor; talkative, as if intoxicated; violent pain in 
the head after a fulness which was pressing upwards; head dull and 
numb; head feels enlarged; heaviness and pressure in the back of the 
head, as from a finger pressing; redness and injection of the conjunc- 
tiva; dimness of vision; letters blur and run together. 

Below we have the Oleum animate. This is similar in its origin to 
Castoreum and Moschus. It is the secretion of the mare, which tends 
to excite the passion of the opposite sex. 

Next we have the Castor eqni, which is the red substance growing 
on the inside of the legs of the horse. The principal use that has been 
made of this in medicine has been in sore nipples, when they are 
cracked and ragged, almost hanging in fact. 

Now we come to the milk preparations. I am not going to uphold 
these. You are to be the judges. No editor of a journal, or college 
professor, however brilliant he may be, should decide for' you. I have 
been making experiments with them and I believe that some at least 
will become very valuable remedies. Try them, that you may know 
them by your own experience. The first is Lac vacci?ium, or cow's 
milk; the next is Lac dcfloratum , or skimmed milk. The latter has 
gained such a foot-hold that less objection has been made to it than to 
any of the others. It has been used largely in the treatment of dia- 
betes. Patients are directed to drink a pint of milk morning, noon 
and night, while all food containing starch and sugar is prohibited. 
The quantity of milk just mentioned is gradually increased until the 
patient consumes four or five quarts daily. Provings of Lac defloratum 
have been made. It has cured intense headache, located principally in 
the fore-part of the head. The pains are of a throbbing character, 
and are associated with nausea, vomiting and the most obstinate con- 
stii ation and great chilliness. It is especially suitable in anaemic 
women. Remember these symptoms — anaemic women, throbbing 
frontal headache, nausea, vomiting and obstinate constipation. 

Next we come to the dog's milk, Lac caninum. It has been used 
chiefly in diphtheria by a New York physician. Koumyss, another of 



ANIMAL KINGDOM. 2Q 

the milk preparations, is certainly no humbug. It is prepared by fer- 
mentation from asses' milk, and used largely on the plains of Asia. 
Many claim that it is an excellent food for the weak and anaemic and 
especially for the consumptive. It is readily digested and is well 
tolerated by weak stomachs. 

Next we have two substances, Fel tauri and Fel vulpi, which have 
been used in constipation and in accumulation of flatus in the intes- 
tines. 

Pulmo vulpis was introduced by Grauvogl, who, acting according to 
the law of " Sigiiatura rerum" recommended Pulmo vulpis in asthma 
because foxes were long-winded. I give you this without indorsing it. 

We next come to the Ophidia. Here we have the large class of 
serpents, the consideration of which I will omit now, because we will 
take them up for study at our next meeting. 

Among the Pisces or fishes, I will mention only the cod-liver oil, or 
Oleum jecoris aselli. This is known as a great remedy in scrofulosis, 
tuberculosis and debility. It is used, as you know, hy physicians of 
both schools of practice. Many physicians claim that it acts physio- 
logically. This is a mistake. It is a medicine. It does not act by the 
oil contained as Dr. Hughes claims. If it does, why is it that other 
oils do not produce as good effects? It is a compound drug and con- 
tains Iodine, Phosphorus, and other substances. Dr. Neidhard of this 
city has made provings of it. He gave the drug in the lower poten- 
cies to provers, until he obtained a list of symptoms which he found to 
be characteristic. I will here give you an outline of the sj^mptoms. 
You may use it when there are chills running down the back, hoarse- 
ness, and soreness through the chest. How many times you will see 
these symptoms as the beginning of tuberculosis ! There may be 
sharp stitching pains here and there through the chest; the patient 
complains of burning pain in spots or in some one portion of the chest. 
Fever is particularly marked toward evening with burning of the 
palms of the hands. The cough is dry, with an expectoration of a 
somewhat slimy mucus such as we notice in the initial stages of tuber- 
culosis. These are symptoms which have been noticed in the prov- 
ings conducted b}^ a conscientious observer, Dr. Neidhard; they are 
sj'mptoms which, when occurring in the sick, have been cured by the 
drug. When they are present, you may give Oleum jecoris aselli Neither 
in potency or in the crude form, and give it, too, on a scientific basis. 

Next we come to Bufo rana, a variety of toad indigenous to South 



30 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

America. The surface of its body secretes an oily substance which 
has the reputation of being poisonous. The native women, when tired 
of the importunities of their husbands, mix this oily secretion into 
their husbands' drink for the purpose of producing impotency. Prov- 
ings have been made of Bufo, and it has been found to produce a very 
disgusting set of symptoms. It causes a sort of imbecility, in which 
the person loses all decency. He becomes a confirmed masturbator 
and seeks privacy to indulge his vicious habit. Masturbation and 
even sexual intercourse seem to cause convulsions which simulate 
those of epilepsy. The aura that begins the epileptic paroxysm starts 
from the genital organs. The patient may even be thrown into violent 
convulsions during coitus. That form of epilepsy for which Bafo has 
done the most is that which occurs from sexual over-excitement or 
else seems to start from the solar plexus. These symptoms are pre- 
ceded by a singular irritability of the mind during which the patient 
talks incoherent^, and is then vexed because his gibberish is not 
understood. The convulsions themselves are usually followed by pro- 
found sleep. Some years ago, Dr. Wm. Pa}me cured a case of peri- 
tonitis with this remedy in which there were repeated convulsions, 
finally followed by stupor, unconsciousness, cold limbs, copious sweat, 
etc. I have recently successfully treated a woman with this drug-, 
the indications being spasms, with suppurating blisters on the skin, in 
the throat, and in the vagina. The abdomen was exceedingly sensi- 
tive, feeling to her as if the same sort of sores were also in the bowels. 
Bufo also cures blisters on the skin, which rupture, leaving a raw sur- 
face from which there oozes an excoriating ichorous fluid. 

We may here institute comparisons between Bufo and its concordant 
remedies. Indigo is indicated in epileptiform spasms which seem to be 
reflex from the irritation of worms. It is often useful in children 
when they are aroused at night with this horrible itching at the anus. 
But it never does any good unless the patient is low-spirited or sad or 
timid. If he is vehement or excitable, recourse must be had to a 
vehement remedy like Nux vomica or Bufo. 

Artemisia vulgaris is an excellent remedy in epilepsy, especially 
when it has been caused by fright or some exciting mental emotion. 
The attacks are repeated one after the other, and are followed by pro- 
found sleep. 

From the Mollusca we obtain two remedies, Sepice succus and Murex. 
These I will leave for the present, as I shall have more to say of them 
by and by. 



ANIMAL KINGDOM. 3 1 

From the Radiata we obtain four medicines, the first of which to be 
mentioned is the Corallium rubnim or red coral. It has several uses, but 
I shall mention only two. Corallium rubriwi is useful in a combination 
of syphilis and psora. There are smooth spots on the surface of the 
body, mostly on the palms of the hands. At first they are of a coral- 
red hue, but they finally become darker, and assume the well-known 
copper-color characteristic of syphilis. Corallium is also useful for 
chancres when they have this coral- red hue. 

The whooping-cough of Corallium rubrum has been styled the min- 
ute-gun cough, the paroxysms, as alread} r described, coming very 
close together. During the day the cough is short, quick and ring- 
ing in character; when night comes, decided paroxysms of whooping 
appear, worse towards morning. These seem to take the child's 
breath completely away, so that when they have ceased, he falls back 
completely exhausted. In this whooping-cough it is similar to 
Mephitis, which I have already described to you. 

Spongia we shall speak of along with the Halogens, Bromine, Iodine, 
etc. 

Medusa, or the jelly-fish, has effects which are nearly identical with 
those of Urtica urens. It produces a nettle-rash, and also has some 
slight action on the kidneys. 

Badiaga, the fresh-water sponge of Russia, has two principal points 
of attack, the first of which is on the tymphatic glands, causing en- 
largement with induration. It has been successfully used in indurated 
buboes, especially when they have been maltreated. Here it is 
similar to Carbo animalis. It also has an action on the heart. It is 
of service in palpitation of that organ caused hy any unpleasant ex- 
citement; thus it is similar to Coffea and Phosphorus. It is not indi- 
cated in organic heart diseases. 

Nitrite of amyt 'is likewise indicated in functional cardiac affections. 
It paralyses the vaso-motor nerves and is therefore useful in conges- 
tions to various parts of the body, especially to the head or to the 
chest. The face becomes flushed, and even puffed and red. Respira- 
tion is greatly oppressed. The heart beats more frequently, but loses 
in force. A constrictive sensation about the heart is experienced and 
the patient must sit up. The urine ordinarity contains a small 
quantity of albumen. So susceptible is the person, that the opening 
of a door causes flushing. Nitrite of amyl is indicated in flashes of 
heat at change of life. 



32 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Next we come to the Articulata, insects whose bodies are in seg- 
ments, the wasps, bees, etc. We have in this group a great many 
remedies, some of which have been placed on the board. To the 
Hejniptera belong the Coccus cacti and the Cimex. 

Coccus cacti is a little insect infesting the cacti of South America. 
The principal use of the drug is in whooping-cough with morning 
aggravation The child awakens in the morning and is immediately 
seized with a paroxj-sm of whooping-cough, ending in vomiting of 
clear ropy mucus, hanging in great long strings from the mouth. 
That is a symptom which you all should remember. I can assure you 
that it is a positive one, for with this condition present Coccus cacti, 
when administered in the beginning, has cut short the whole disease. 
Still further, Coccus cacti affects the chest. The apices of the lungs are 
sore, and the patient coughs up this ropy mucus. 

Kali bichromicum and Senega are concordant remedies of Coccus cacti 
in these conditions. Kali bichromicum has a dry, barking cough, worse 
in the morning. The expectoration is stringy, but it is yellow in color 
— not clear, as under Coccus cacti. 

Senega is useful in chubby children. It has tough expectoration, 
which is transparent like the white of an egg and difficult to raise, but 
the cough is worse towards evening. If the child is old enough, it 
will complain of a crushing weight on the chest. 

Cimex is a remedy that I have never used. It has been recom- 
mended in intermittent fever. 

From the Hymenoptera we obtain such important remedies as Apis 
mellifica, Vespa and Formica. This order we must leave for the present. 

The order Coleoptera gives us Cant/zaris, which will be considered in 
a future lecture. From this order we also obtain the Doryphora decem- 
lineata, or potato-bug. This is highly poisonous, and has been used 
successfully in inflammations of a low grade; for instance, in gonor- 
rheal inflammation when the parts are purple or dark red. 

Under the order Orthoptera we have one remedy mentioned, the 
Blatta, or cockroach. Journals have contained many accounts of cases 
of dropsy cured with it. lastly, we have the A rachnida, or spiders, 
the consideration of which we shall leave for a future lecture. 



LECTURE III. 

THE OPHIDIA. 

In considering the remedies derived from the animal kingdom, first 
I shall speak, in extenso, of the large family, formally called Ophidians, 
or snakes proper. Of those we use in medicine, we have first the Lach- 
esis trigonocephalies. This was proved by Dr. Hering, sixty years ago. 
Next we have the Crotalus horridus. There is also a South American 
species, proved by Dr. Muir, the Crotalus cascavella. This has a few 
symptoms which will not yield to the administration of the other spe- 
cies. Then there are the Naja tripadians, one variety of the cobra, 
and the Elaps coralli?ius, so called from the shape of the scales on the 
back, which have something the appearance of coral. Lastly, there is 
the Bothrops lanceolatus, a remedy which, for a year or more, I have 
vainly tried to procure. It causes symptoms similar to that peculiar 
condition known as aphasia. Of these poisons, the first four are com- 
monly used in medicine. 

The poison of the snake is generally held in a little sac behind the 
fangs. On the under surface of the fangs is a small groove, into which 
empties a little tube that conveys the poison from the gland. When 
they are not in use they lie back on the roof of the mouth. If the 
animal is excited, it opens its mouth, the fangs are pushed forward, 
and at the same time, by muscular action, a drop of the poison runs 
down the canal and into the punctured wound. Now, what follows? 
That depends on various causes. The poison is more potent at some 
times than at others. The more angry the serpent is, the more active 
is its venom. If, in inflicting the wound, the fang passes through the 
clothing, some of the poison may thus be absorbed. Again, the power 
of resistance of the individual has some effect. 

Thus, you may divide the effects of the snake-poison into three sorts: 
First, that which may be compared to the action of a stroke of light- 
ning or a dose of Prussic acid. Immediately after the bite the pa- 
tient starts up with a look of anguish on his face and then drops 
dead. This represents the full, unmodified, lightning rapidity of the 
poison. In the second form, commonly, the part bitten swells and 
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turns, not a bright red, but rapidly to a dark purplish color, the blood 
becomes fluid, and the patient exhibits symptoms like those character- 
istic of septicaemia. The heart-beat increases in rapidity, but lessens 
in tone and strength. The patient becomes prostrated and covered 
with a cold clammy sweat. Dark spots appear on the body where the 
blood settles into ecchymoses; the patient becomes depressed from 
weakness of the nervous system, and then sinks into a typhoid state 
and dies. Or there follow nervous phenomena. Vertigo; dark spots 
before the eyes; blindness; a peculiar tremor all over the body; face 
besotted; dyspnoea, or even stertor. Or the process may assume a 
slower form. After the vertigo or trembling the patient remains 
weak, and the wound turns dark or gangrenous. All the discharges, 
the sweat, the urine and the faeces, become offensive. Dysenteric 
symptoms of a typhoid character show themselves. The patient goes 
into a low state, and finally dies. These are all phases of the action 
of these powerful poisons on the blood and the nerves. 

The Ophidia, as a group, are characterized by their paralyzing ac- 
tion upon the nerves. They directly weaken the brain and heart 
action. Then follow decomposition of the blood, changes in the mus- 
cular tissue and local death from gangrene. At first there is developed 
a condition of anxiety, mental excitability and oversensitiveness of the 
brain, with hallucinations, anxious fear, etc. Afterward arises nerv- 
ous depression, varying from such a debility as is observed in severe or 
protracted disease and advancing old age to mental confusion, stupor, 
low delirium and paralysis. Constrictions are noticed, as in the throat, 
larynx and sphincters in general. Haemorrhages, which are usually 
dark, decomposed, oozing from every orifice of the body; thus, also, 
ecchymoses. They are most marked under Lachesis and Crotalus, less 
in Elaps, least in Naja. Face sickly, pale, anxious; bloated, dark red 
or bluish. Special senses altered; dim vision, excitability of brain 
and spinal cord, accounting for the mental restlessness and bodily sen- 
sitiveness. Predominant, even with the pains, are torpidity, numb- 
ness, twitchings, formication. 

You already see in what class of diseases you will find these poisons 
curative: Inflammations and fevers of low, destructive type, such as 
gangrene, malignant ulcerations, diphtheria, typhoid, pyaemia, car- 
buncles, etc. With all there are tendency to faint, muscular prostra- 
tion, trembling as in drunkards, irregularities in circulation, flushes of 
heat, apoplectic congestions, paralysis. 



THK OPHIDIA. 35 

Nerves especially affected by the snake-poisons seem to be the pneu- 
mogastric and spinal accessory; consequently, you expect to find, as 
eminently characteristic, symptoms of the larynx, of the respiration 
and of the heart. All of the Ophidia cause choking, constrictive sen- 
sation coming from irritation of the pneumogastric. All of them have 
dyspnoea and heart symptoms. 

Moreover, the Ophidia produce a yellow staining of the skin. This 
is not jaundice, and must not be confused with that affection. It 
comes from the blood, and is due to the decomposition of that fluid, 
just as we find in yellow fever, typhus or pyaemia, and not to the 
staining of the skin with bile. This is most marked in the Crotalus. 
Again, you may find that the skin is dry and harsh, as if there was no 
vitality in it, or it may be clammy, more characteristic of Lachesis. 
The discharges are foetid, even the formed faecal stools of Lachesis are 
horribly offensive. As the heart is weakened by all, we find as char- 
acteristic, running through them all, weak heart, cold feet and trem- 
bling — not the trembling of mere nervousness, but the trembling of 
weakness from blood-poisoning. The cold feet are not indicative of 
congestion, as you find under Belladonna; they are attendant upon a 
weakened heart. 

The heart symptoms of Naja resemble greatly those of Lachesis, but 
its cardiac symptoms point more markedly to the remote effects of car- 
diac valvular lesions; those of Lachesis more to the incipiency of rheu- 
matic disease of the heart. In Naja there is a well-marked frontal and 
temporal headache with the cardiac symptoms; the heart beats tumult- 
uously. The patient awakes gasping for breath. Naja causes more 
nervous phenomena than any of the snake-poisons. 

Under Belladonna the head is hot and the feet are cold, because the 
blood surges toward the head. Under the snake-poisons the feet are 
cold, because the heart is too weak to force the blood to the periphery. 

All of the snake-poisons cause inflammation of the cellular tissue. 
Accordingly, we find them valuable when cellulitis arises in the course 
of typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc. The color of the affected part is 
dark red, purple or black, like gangrene. 

In diphtheria Crotalus has had more clinical confirmation in the per- 
sistent epistaxis. 

Elaps claims attention in cases of haemoptysis, when the blood dis- 
charged is dark in color, especially when the right lung is affected. 

Antidotes for these poisons are numerous. There is no doubt that 



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alcohol is a powerful antagonist to the snake-venom. It is remarkable 
how much alcohol can be swallowed by persons bitten by serpents, 
without the manifestation of the usual physiological effects. Dr. 
Hering recommends radiating heat as an antidote. The part bitten 
should be held close to a hot fire. Ammonia and permanganate of 
potash have been recommended as antidotes, and cures have been 
claimed for each. 

IvACHESIS. 

Now let us consider Lachesis. First of all, in order that you may 
comprehend the subject, I wish to refer to those symptoms which are 
universal. We notice that Lachesis is especially suitable to persons 
who have a peculiar sensitiveness of the surface of the body. Even if 
the patient is lying in a stupor and you touch him, as when you try to 
feel his pulse, he will show that he is disturbed thereby. Hard rub- 
bing or pressure may cause no trouble at all. Dr. Hering, who first 
proved Lachesis, could never tolerate tight clothing about his neck. 
He always wore his collars loose. He noticed that, during the prov- 
ing, this symptom annoyed him more than usual, so he faithfully 
made note of the occurrence, but did not place much value on it. 
Since then the symptom has been confirmed many times in practice, 
and has been found true, not only as a local symptom of the neck, but 
as a symptom of the body universally. The explanation seems to be 
that there is an irritation of the peripheral nerves; and because of this 
the patient cannot bear touch or slight pressure. It is no evidence of 
inflammation, and must not be confounded with the inflammatory 
soreness of Aconite, Arnica or Belladonna. The sensitiveness also dif- 
fers from that of Apis, which has a bruised, sore feeling more acute 
than that of Arnica. It also differs from the sensitiveness of Nux 
vomica and Lycopodium which have it about the waist only after a 
meal. 

Next we find that the drug is prone to affect the left side of the 
body. Homoeopaths have been criticised for attributing to drugs the 
power of acting upon one side of the body in preference to the other. 
The simple fact that disease chooses sides ought to be enough to lead 
one to believe that drugs may do the same. The left side of the body 
is more apt to be affected by drugs having a depressing action, because 
that side of the body is weaker. 

Another peculiarity of Lachesis, arising, probably, from its action on 



THE OPHIDIA. 37 

the pneumogastric nerves, is its influence on sleep. This is a universal 
symptom, that the patient is worse from sleep; he sleeps into an aggra- 
vation. If it is true that Lachesis has an influence on the centres 
of respiration, and is a weakening drug, we can understand why sleep 
should aggravate. During our waking hours we have some control 
over respiration. During sleep this voluntary control is lost. It is when 
this change takes place that the weakening effect of Lachesis is asserted. 

Lachesis is a very valuable remedy at the climaxis, especially in the 
woman who has exhausted herself by frequent pregnancies and hard 
work. In this worn-out condition there occurs a sudden cessation of 
the menses. Suppression or non-appearance of discharges always 
makes the Lachesis patient worse. Perhaps previous to the climaxis 
she was worse before the flow than during it. The pulse is weak and 
tremulous. There are the peculiar headache, and the annoying symp- 
toms of the mind, hot flashes, and nervous symptoms characteristic 
of the drug. 

Now, let us consider some of the symptoms of Lachesis in detail. 
First, as to the mental symptoms. The patient is nervous, anxious, 
loquacious, jumping from subject to subject; sometimes with fear of be- 
ing poisoned, which causes him to refuse the medicines you offer. In- 
teresting stories excite immoderately and even intensify the bodily 
symptoms. Sometimes the anxiety assumes a peculiar type, and he 
imagines that he is dead, and preparations are being made for the funeral. 
The loquacity may be accompanied with sleepiness, and yet inability to 
sleep. Ideas chase each other so rapidly through the mind he cannot 
write them down. He sits up late at night, mental activity then being 
unusually increased. But this stage of excitement is commingled w r ith 
another, which soon entirely supercedes it. The mind is weakened. 
The patient is able to think only with difficulty. He has to stop to 
think how words are spelled, like Sulphur, Lycopodium and Medor- 
rhinuni. There is vertigo, w T orse on closing the eyes, or on sitting or 
lying down. Vertigo with deathly paleness; syncope. In this vertigo, 
fainting, etc.. you may compare Theridion, which has dizziness 
worse with the eyes closed; but, as a distinctive feature, you will find 
that under the latter remedy, vertigo, pains and nausea are intensely 
aggravated by noise. Both remedies are useful in sunstroke. Arsenic, 
Hydrocyanic acid, Digitalis, Veratrum album and Camphor, you should 
compare in vertigo and fainting from cardiac weakness. 

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38 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

there seems to be no reactive power; the face is pale and blue, the surface 
cold. If fluids are forced down the throat, they roll audibly into the 
stomach. If the syncope is attendant upon some poison in the system, 
as scarlatina, the symptoms are similar, the eruption being livid, and, 
when pressed, regaining its color very slowly (cf. Ailanthus) . 

Digitalis also rivals the Ophidians in syncope, with the antecedent 
dim vision; the pulse is generally very slow, and the patient com- 
plains of nausea and deathly weakness in the epigastrium. 

Camphor and Veratrum album display coldness and cold sweaty skin; 
in the latter remedy, the forehead is cold and sweaty. The face may 
be red while lying, but if raised, it turns pale and the patient faints; 
the pulse is thready. 

Camphor has icy surface, sudden sinking, as in Laurocerasus , and al- 
though so cold, he throws off the clothing as soon as he is strong 
enough to move, even though he be still unconscious. 

Heaviness of the head on waking, with nausea and dizziness, as in 
sunstroke. In ill-effects of the heat of the sun, compare Glonoine, 
Bellado7ina y Natrum card, and Theriolion (see above). The first two, 
with bloated red face, paralytic weakness (Glon.), unconsciousness, etc., 
resemble Lachesis, but the latter displays the effects of heat upon one 
already exhausted. All the Ophidians are intolerant of warm, relaxing 
weather, and so we find many ailments returning in spring and sum- 
mer. In the Lachesis case, the patient may be an inebriate or one 
prostrated by mental fatigue. The sun's heat makes him languid, 
dizzy, faint, or, if congestions ensue, the face is dark red, and looks at 
the same time sunken and cadaverous; the extremities are cold. Here 
Camphor may be demanded if vitality is ebbing away, the fainting 
spells growing worse, and the body icy cold and bathed in cold sweat. 
Both Lachesis and Natrum carb. are useful when hot weather fatigues, 
in which case you should compare, also, Selenium and Natrum mur. 

Returning now, after this digression, to the mental symptoms of 
Lachesis, we find that the delirium is of a low, muttering type. At 
other times the patient seems to be going deeper and deeper into a tor- 
pid state, with coolness of the extremities and trembling of the hands 
and body. When asked to protrude the tongue, it comes out trem- 
blingly, or catches in the teeth, and is usually coated dark brown, 
sometimes with little blisters on the tip. The lips crack and ooze dark 
blood. Loquacity is commonly followed by depression, and by weak- 
ness which amounts to a typhoid state; then comes delirium, but not 
of the violent Bellado?ina type. 



THE OPHIDIA. 39 

These symptoms show Lachesis to be an invaluable remedy in 
typhoid fever, and in fact in all diseases of a typhoid type. The 
loquacity just referred to is particularly characteristic. Another men- 
tal state which these typhoid patients may have is the delusion that 
they are under some superhuman power. Diarrhoea is usually pres- 
ent, and the stools are horribly offensive, a strong characteristic of 
Lachesis, which will also aid you in diphtheria, scarlatina and other dis- 
eases of this type. Even when the stools are formed, and in every 
way natural, they give forth this horrible odor. Lachesis may also be 
indicated late in the course of typhoid fever, when the patient lies in a 
stupor with dropping of the lower jaw, and other symptoms indicative 
of impending paralysis of the brain. 

Let me now speak of some of the concordant remedies of Lachesis in 
these conditions. In the loquacity just mentioned Lachesis should be 
compared with Stramonium, Agaricus, Mephitis, Actea racemosa and 
Paris quadrifolia. 

Stramonium you will distinguish from Lachesis by the red face and 
the other evidences of great sensorial excitement. 

Agaricus exhibits great loquacity associated with convulsive move- 
ments of facial and cervical muscles; merry, incoherent talk. 

In Mephitis it is as if one were drunk. 

Under Actea racemosa the loquacity is usually associated with men- 
strual suppression, with puerperal mania or as a part of delirium tre- 
mens, for which Lachesis also is a useful remedy. Actea cures wild 
imaginings of rats, etc., sleeplessness, wild crazed feeling about the 
head, incessant talking with continual change of subject; the patient 
must move about. Lachesis has more marked trembling of the hands, 
diarrhoea and greater exhaustion with the loquacity and hallucinations. 

Paris quadrifolia causes a garrulity which is much like that pro- 
duced by tea, a sort of vivacity with love of prattling. 

In these typhoid types of fever you may compare Lachesis with 
Opium, Hyoscyamus, Arnica, Lycopodium, Apis, Muriatic acid, Baptisia 
and Rhus toxicodendron . Opium is indicated in typhoid fever with this 
threatening paralysis of the brain, but the sj T mptoms under it refer to 
a very different condition from that of Lachesis. The symptoms which 
indicate Opium, in addition to this dropping of the lower jaw, are un- 
consciousness, stertorous breathing, and a dark or brownish-red hue of 
the face. The darker red the face the more is Opium indicated. With 
Lachesis the cerebral condition is due to the effect of the typhoid poi- 



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son on the brain. With Opium it is a secondary effect of the intense 
congestion of that organ. 

Hyoscyamus is perhaps more like Lachesis than is Opium. Here 
we find the lower jaw dropped; the patient is weak and trembling, and 
there is twitching of the muscles. This last is a necessary symptom of 
Hyoscyamus. Here, too, there is snoring breathing, as in Opium, with 
involuntary stool and great prostration. 

Arnica is also indicated when there is great congestion of the brain. 
The patient lies in a stupor, with lower jaw dropped and eyes fixed, 
but, even in stupor, as if the bed was too hot and hard. The face is 
dark red, and stool and urine are passed involuntarily. In addition 
to these symptoms, we find under Arnica a symptom which differ- 
entiates it from the drugs just mentioned, namely, dark spots here 
and there on the body, irregular in outline and having a black and 
blue appearance — ecchymoses, as they are called. 

Lycopodium is the complement of Lachesis, and is, therefore, more 
apt to be indicated after it than any remedy I have mentioned. The 
symptoms which indicate Lycopodium are these: The patient lies in a 
stupor, with lower jaw dropped and rattling breathing. There is a 
rattling of phlegm in the throat during both inspiration and expira- 
tion, and the eyes are fixed and set, and are filled with mucus. Lyco- 
podium is the most important remedy we have in impending paralysis 
of the brain; by that I mean to say that it is the most frequently in- 
dicated. 

Apis has not so markedly the dropping of the lower jaw, but re- 
sembles Lachesis in muttering delirium, trembling tongue, etc. The 
bee-poison, however, causes a nervous fidgetiness with sleepiness and 
inability to sleep; later, muttering delirium; happy, strange expres- 
sion; abdomen swollen and extremely sensitive, hands and forearms 
cold, involuntary stools. This sensitiveness is a bruised feeling, dif- 
fering from the hyperesthesia of Lachesis. 

Muriatic acid displays a sunken face, tongue smooth as if deprived 
of papillae, or brown, shrunken and hard; sliding down in bed from 
muscular weakness. 

Baptisia has dark, besotted face, drowsiness and stupor, goes to 
sleep while answering questions; discharges from the bowels dark, 
fluid and very offensive. 

Rhus tox. may simulate Lachesis in one phase of its action, namely, 
when drowsiness appears and there are muttering; dry, cracked 



THE OPHIDIA. 41 

tongue, sordes and involuntary stool. In degree the snake poison is 
undoubtedly lower than Rhus, and, therefore, other things being 
equal, comes in later. Rhus has a well-marked restlessness with re- 
lief from motion; loquacity is not prominent; the tongue has a red, 
triangular tip, and the discharges are never so offensive as those of the 
former remedy. You must bear in mind that Rhus is an erethistic rem- 
edy, and must be very similar to existing symptoms if it is to be con- 
tinued after torpidity sets in without erethism. 

Leaving the mental symptoms of Lachesis and the indications of it 
and its analogues in typhoid fever, we will next consider its head 
symptoms. We find that it produces a pulsating headache usually in 
the left temple and over the eyes, with mental confusion before the de- 
velopment of a coryza, relieved as soon as the coryza appears. This 
is a universal characteristic — as soon as a discharge is established the 
patient feels better. I have relieved dysmenorrhea with Lachesis 
when there was a headache preceding the dysmenorrhea, but relieved 
as soon as the flow was established. At the menopause there is burn- 
ing in the vertex. 

In catarrhal and rheumatic headaches you may compare Mercurius, 
Cinchona, Pulsatilla, Bryo?iia and Gelsemzum. 

Mercurius relieves headache from suppressed coryza when there is 
pulsating headache with pressure towards the nose, worse when warm 
in bed and from damp, windy weather. Cinchona, when the pain is 
worse from the least draught of air. Bryonia and Pulsatilla come into 
use when the checked catarrhal secretion is thick, and yellow and 
green, respectively. Gelsemium, when motility is lessened and the 
patient is drowsy, with neuralgic pains from occiput to forehead and 
face. 

The headache may also arise from disordered stomach or bowels, or 
may be an accompaniment of fevers and of diseases of zymotic origin. 
The patient has an upward tendency of the blood, with throbbing in 
the head, dark redness of the face, puffed face, confusion of the mind, 
all the way from simple confusion to absolute stupor, often accompa- 
nied, too, by partial blindness, palpitation of the heart, and fainting. 
The pains about the head are briefly as follows: Sharp sticking, which 
seems to concentrate at the root of the nose; at other times the pains 
go from the zygoma to the ear. This direction of the pains is charac- 
teristic. As a parallel of this shooting pain from the zygoma to the ear 
we have pains from the head going down through and into the eyes. 



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These are all characteristic pains of Lachesis. There is an additional 
one that I will now mention, which is probably of rheumatic origin; 
pains in the head, going down into the shoulders and neck of the af- 
fected side, and often accompanied by slight stiffness of the neck, 
either catarrhal or rheumatic. 

You may have Lachesis indicated in severer forms of the head 
trouble; for instance, in inflammation of the membranes of the brain; 
sharp pains in the head, making the patient scream out; tongue show- 
ing papillae; strawberry tongue; patient rolls the head from side to 
side, and bores it into the pillow. Particularly useful is Lachesis when 
an exanthem, like scarlatina or erysipelas, has not developed or has 
been repercussed. The patient is at first very drowsy, but unable to 
sleep; there is trembling or palpitation of the heart. Soon stupor en- 
sues, and he becomes heavy and sleepy, and you can rouse him only 
with difficulty. 

In intense head pains, as in meningitis, you should remember the 
relation between Belladonna and Lachesis, the difference between these 
drugs being rather one of degree. Both are suited to meningitis from 
erysipelas, to scarlatina, to apoplexy, etc. ; but the former represents the 
initial stage of these diseases, or the state in which, even though there 
be stupor, there are still evidences of irritation and not wholly of de- 
pression. Thus, under Belladonna, the patient often starts from his 
heavy sleep, cries out, grinds the teeth, awakens frightened, etc. His 
pulse is usually strong and the surface congestions are bright red, or if 
more intense, deep red and livid. If there is an eruption, as in scarla- 
tina, it is red, even if sparse, but vitality is not so low that the extrem- 
ities are cold or the rash bluish, and the cellular tissue infiltrated and 
threatening an unhealthy suppuration, as in the snake-poison. Often, 
however, after the use of Belladonna we find evidence of cerebral exhaus- 
tion, or blood-poisoning, or impending paralysis, in which case Lachesis 
may be required. The patient still cries out in sleep or awakens fright- 
ened, the tongue still shows elevated papillae, the head is hot, and the 
face is red; but the pulse is quicker, and more feeble, the feet are cold, the 
surface heat is irregularly distributed; the mind is more befogged and 
drowsiness is stealthily creeping on, the inflamed part or the pseudo- 
membrane or the eruption, as the case may be, is becoming more 
purplish — these indicate the change. 

Considering the action of Lachesis on the special senses, we find the 
eyes to be affected by the drug. Dim vision, worse on awaking; dark 



THE OPHIDIA. 43 

spots appear before the eyes; sight suddenly seems to fade away; 
feeling of faintness and palpitation of the heart; with these, nervous 
trembling. Lachesis is one of the leading remedies for dim sight as 
an evidence of heart disease and vertigo. We may also use it with 
good effect for what we may term retinal apoplexy. There it acts very 
well in causing an absorption of the blood. 

The nearest remedies to Lachesis in this condition of the retina are 
Crotalus, Phosphorus, Arnica, Belladonna and Hamamelis. 

Scrofulous ophthalmia calls for Lachesis when the symptoms are de- 
cidedly worse after sleep. There are gr:at photophobia and pains of 
a burning, stitching, shooting character, extending to the temples, top 
of the head and occiput. There are also itching and stinging in the 
eyes and lids, worse from touch. Vision is misty, with black flicker- 
ing before the eyes. 

Crotalus may also be called for in keratitis when there are cutting 
pains around the eyes, lids swollen in the morning, ciliary neuralgia 
with these cuttings, worse during menses. 

In the diseases of the ear, Lachesis ma}' be remedial for roaring and 
singing in the ears, and other sorts of tinnitus aurium, which are 
relieved by putting the finger in the ear and working it. This shows 
that the tinnitus is not congestive, but of catarrhal origin, especially 
from occlusion of the Eustachian tube. The wax is altered in quality 
and becomes pasty and offensive. There is swelling between the ear 
and the mastoid process, with throbbing pain and stiffness. You can 
here compare Nitric acid, Capsicum, Auruni, Hepar, and Silicea. 

Elaps and Crotalus also have an action on the ears. Elaps, like 
Lachesis, produces a catarrh with black cerumen, buzzing in the 
ears, and otorrhcea. In Elaps, the discharge is yellowish-green, 
liquid and bloody. Only Lachesis seems to have the Eustachian stop- 
page, better from shaking the finger in the external meatus. Crotalus 
causes a stuffed feeling in the ears, worse on the right side, associ- 
ated with a feeling as if hot ear-wax was trickling out. 

The face in the Lachesis patient varies, of course, with the condition 
that obtains in the system at the time. In many of the diseases in 
which the remedy is indicated the face has an earthy pallor. In ex- 
anthematic diseases it is apt to be bloated or puffed, and bluish-red; if 
the eruption comes out, it appears sparsely and is of a dark color. 

Anxious and painful expression with the stupor; face disfigured, 
puff y, hot, red and swollen, as after a debauch; blue circles around 



44 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

the eyes. With abdominal troubles, as in ague, the face is earthy 
gray. 

Lachesis also has convulsions of the face; lockjaw; distortion of the 
face; stretching the body backward; screaming; feet cold and itch- 
ing. Sudden swelling of the face. 

For swollen face, you may compare: Apis, Belladonna, Arsenic, 
Lycopodium, Hyoscyamus, Rhus tox., Pulsatilla, Stramonium, Kali 
carb., and Phosphorus. 

For sickly, pale, or earthy complexion: Arsenic, Bufo, Lycopodium, 
Carbo veg., Rhus tox., Cinchona, Phosphorus, and Phosphoric acid. 

Blue around the eyes: Arsenic, Cuprum, Phosphorus, Secale cornutum , 
and Veratrum album. 

Debauched look: Baptisia, Hyoscyamus, Carbo veg., Nux vomica, 
Sulphur, Opium, Nux moschata. 

In facial convulsions compare: Nux vomica, Hyoscyamus, Bella- 
donna, Hydrocyanic acid, Lycopodhim, Cicuta, Camphor, Phytolacca, 
Arse?iic. 

Apis, Arse7iic, and Kali carb. agree in puffing of the face even with- 
out any redness. In the first, there are also smarting of the eyelids, 
and a sensation of stiffness. In the second, the swelling is noticed 
about the eyes, glabella and forehead (also Natrum ars.). Kali carb. 
has the well-known sacs of the upper lids, and also sudden swelling 
of the cheeks. 

The expression, complexion, etc., of Arsenic are very similar to those 
of the snake-poisons. The anxiety and pain are marked by more 
restlessness, irritability, fear of death, etc., and the sunken face is 
more completely Hippocratic, with pointed features, sunken eyes and 
cold sweat. When yellow or earthy, it is cachectic. If trismic symp- 
toms are present, the patient will be found lying pale, and as if 
dead, yet warm. Suddenly he arouses, and goes into severe con- 
vulsions, only again to relapse into this sort of cataleptic rigidity. The 
eyes are partly open, with gum on the conjunctiva. 

Lycopodhim has pale or yellow face, deeply furrowed, looking elon- 
gated. The convulsive movements are unique. All through the 
provings of this remedy you will note an alternation of contraction and 
expansion. And in the face you note the tongue pushed out and with- 
drawn, spasmodic trembling of the facial muscles, angles of the mouth 
alternately drawn up and relaxed, alse nasi alternately expanded and 
contracted. The eyes may be partly open and covered with mucus — 
a bad symptom, generally being indicative of brain exhaustion. 



THE OPHIDIA. 45 

Phosphorus has a pale face, but it is distinguished by its ash}-, 
anaemic appearance. This should be remembered, since this remedy, 
like the Ophidia, has puffy face, sunken features, blueness around 
the eyes, and blue lips. 

Hyoscyamns is very similar to Lachesis in facial expression and in 
the convulsive phenomena. It has a marked stupid, drunken look; 
the face is distorted and blue, or swollen and brownish red; starting; 
twitchings of single groups of muscles are noted. Hunger appears 
before the attacks. 

Stramonium is readily distinguished by its swollen, turgid face, 
fright on awakening, renewal of spasms from light, and contracted 
gloomy expression, with wrinkles of the forehead. 

Hydrocyanic acid closely agrees in convulsive symptoms and in the 
color of the face. As in Llaps, fluids roll audibly into the stomach; 
but in the latter it is more as a spasmodic contraction of the 
sphincters, followed by sudden relaxation. In convulsions, the sur- 
face, in the acid, is pale blue, and the muscles of the face, jaw, and 
back are affected. Suddenly a shock is felt, which passes like light- 
ning from head to foot, and then comes the spasm. Here, the remedy 
is more like Cicuta and Helleborus than Lachesis. But Cicuta has, like 
the snake-poisons, great difficulty in breathing from spasm, and, more 
than any remedy, it produces staring; the spasm is followed by dispro- 
portionate^ severe weakness. 

Camphor is readily distinguished from Lachesis by the coldness and 
by the withdrawing of the lip, showing the teeth. 

Lachesis is indicated in erysipelas of the face. Characteristically, 
the disease will be most marked on the left side. The face at first 
may be bright red, but it soon takes on a dark bluish hue. There 
is considerable infiltration into the cellular tissue, so that we have puffi- 
ness of the eye of the affected side. Now the characteristic bluish face 
is due to the accompanying weakness. Kven in the beginning, while the 
skin is still red, the pulse, though accelerated, is weak, the feet are apt 
to be cool, and the head is affected sympathetically, so that the patient 
readify becomes drowsy, with muttering delirium; or the opposite con- 
dition of pseud o- excitement — the loquacity w T hich I have already men- 
tioned — obtains. 

You must now distinguish this erysipelas of Lachesis from that of the 
remedies which are akin to it; among these is Belladonna . In its early 
symptoms, Belladonna bears no resemblance to Lachesis. But in the 



46 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

course of the disease, when the inflammation is so intense that the 
bloated face grows bluish red, threatening gangrene, or when the brain 
becomes affected, differentiation is necessary. Here, both have hot 
head and cold feet, delirium, dry tongue, etc. But Lachesis suits when 
the cerebral symptoms fail to yield to Belladomia, and the excitement 
gives way to muttering stupor. The pulse is weak and rapid, and the 
cool surface of the limbs is plainly due to failing vitality rather than 
to the upward tendency of the blood. Crotalus holds the same rela- 
tion to Belladon?ia. 

Apis mellifica is indicated in erysipelas when the affected parts ex- 
hibit a tendency to become cedematous. If the face is involved, the 
eye-lids protrude like sacs of water. The face is usually of a pinkish 
hue, or it may be dark purplish, but it never has the deep bluish-black 
hue of Lachesis. 

Although there may be a similar destructive tendency, the condition 
of nervous irritation produced by the bee-poison is very different from 
that of any of its congeners. It is a fidgety, nervous state, a fretted 
feeling, which deprives the patient of sleep, although he feels sleepy. 

Rhus toxicodendron is suited to the vesicular form of erysipelas. The 
patient is drowsy, as under Lachesis, little blisters form on and about 
the face, and the face is dingy red, not the bluish-black of Lachesis nor 
the purple of the intensified Apis case. 

If vesicles form in the Lachesis case, they quickly fill with pus. 
Speaking relatively, Rhus produces more vesiculation and burning, 
stinging and itching, with more aching of the limbs and restlessness; 
Lachesis, more bluish-red inflammation, with gangrenous tendency. 

Euphorbium, since it causes gangrene with erysipelas, anxiety as 
from poison, apprehensiveness, dim vision, etc., deserves your notice. 
The right cheek is of a livid or dark red hue, vesicles form as large as 
peas, and are filled with a yellow liquid. The pains are boring, gnaw- 
ing and digging in character, and extend from the gum into the ear, 
with itching and crawling when the pains are relieved. 

Lachesis may be indicated in prosopalgia when the pain is worse on 
the left side, and when there are tearing pains above the orbit and dig- 
ging and screwing pains around the malar bone. Delirium appears as 
soon as the eyes are closed. 

The teeth decay and crumble. The gums are swollen and bluish, 
with throbbing pains. Lachesis may be successfully used in perio- 
dontitis and abscess at the root of a filled tooth (compare Mercurius, 
Hepar, Silicea, Lluoric acid and Petroleum. 



THE OPHIDIA. 47 

Of the allied remedies in toothache none is so similar as Mercurius, 
which, like Lachesis, relieves when the gum is inflamed and the tooth 
decayed, with abscess at the root. It is said to have a direct action on 
the dentine. The pains are tearing and pulsating, and shoot into the 
face and ears. In Lachesis the gum is swollen, and at the same time 
dark red and livid, or it is tense and hot and looks as if it would crack. 
Mercurius is markedly worse from the warmth of the bed. Lachesis 
often follows the latter, or is needed at once if the patient has been 
previously salivated. Only Mercurius has dirty gums, with white 
edges. 

In sore mouth, aphthae, etc., Lachesis should be compared with Bap- 
tisia, Nitric acid, Muriatic acid, Arsenic and Apis; while Mercurius com- 
pares more with Carbo veg., Staph isagria, Kali chlor., Iodine, Sulphuric 
acid, Nit} ic acid. 

Baptisia has blood oozing from the gums, which look dark red or 
purple, salivation, foetororis, offensive stools, and thus far is precisely like 
Lachesis. Both, too, are indicated in the stomacace attending the 
last stages of phthisis. Decide by general differences and also by the 
tongue, which, in the former, is yellow or brown down the centre, 
with red, shining edges. In the latter, it is red, dry and glistening, 
especially at the tip, and has its sides and tip covered with blisters. 

Nitric acid causes an acrid saliva ; the pains in the mouth are prick- 
ing in character, as from a splinter; the aphthae and gums are usually 
whitish; there are raw places, with shooting pains. 

Muriatic acid presents deep, bluish ulcers, with dark edges; the mu- 
cous membrane is denuded in places, the raw spots being dotted with 
aphthae. 

Arsenic looks very much like Lachesis, with livid, bleeding gums, 
edges of tongue blistered, or ulcerating diarrhoea. The burning is 
more intense, and is associated with restlessness, compelling motion in 
spite of the weakness. In gangrena ofis it causes more acute pain 
and heat in the mouth; both have bluish or black sloughing ulcers. 
Arsenic has more mental irritability. 

Apis has blisters marking the border of the tongue, or in clusters. 
The mouth is usually rosy-red, swollen, and there are marked stinging 
pains; the margin of the tongue feels scalded, as does the mouth gen- 
erally. 

Carbo veg. , Staphisagria and Sulphuric acid agree more with Mercurius; 
the gums are white, spongy, ulcerated, rather than livid. Staphisagria 



48 A CUNICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

may cause sores, which look bluish-red or yellow; especially is it 
needed after abuse of Mercury, or in syphilitic cases when the general 
debility is marked with sunken face, blue around the eyes, etc. Sul- 
phuric acid produces great debility, yellowish-white gums, yellow skin; 
the patient is nervous and hasty, and constantly complains of trem- 
bling, which, however, is not observed by others. 

Salicylic acid causes the common canker sores, with burning soreness 
and foetid breath. 

Lycopodium produces similar sores near the fraenum of the tongue, 
Lachesis at the tip, and Nitric acid, Phytolacca, Natrum hydrochlor. on 
the inner sides of the cheeks. 

Phytolacca has some systematic resemblance to Lachesis here as well 
as in the throat (see next lecture). Both cause great weakness, dim 
vision, sunken face, blueness around the eyes, sore mouth, tongue blist- 
ered along the edges, tip of tongue red, roof of mouth sore, profuse 
saliva. The poke-root may be distinguished by the great pain at the 
root of the tongue when swallowing. These pains are a part of the 
tired aching and soreness which are general over the body. 

Helleboi'us produces canker in the mouth, but the sores are yellowish, 
with raised edges. 

Returning to the subject of decayed teeth, it may be noted that Kreo- 
sote cures pains extending from teeth to left side of face; teeth decay 
rapidly, gums bleed, the blood being dark; but the accompanying 
facial pains are burning, and the patient is excitable, nervous, even, 
as in children, thrown into convulsions. 

Thuja causes a decay just at the border of the gums, leaving the 
crown apparently sound. Gums dark-red in streaks. Teeth turn yel- 
low and crumble. 



LECTURE IV. 

THE OPHIDIA 

Lachesis (conti?iucd) . 

Next we take up the action of Lachesis on the nose, throat, and chest, 
so far as catarrhs are concerned. Lachesis produces watery discharge 
from the nose, which is often preceded by throbbing headache, worse 
in the left temple and forehead, and relieved as the coryza estab- 
lishes itself. Accompanying this coryza sometimes are vesicles about 
the nose, redness, puffiness of the face and lids, creeping chills over 
the body, palpitation of the heart, and great relaxation of the whole 
system; hence it is suitable for a cold which occurs in relax- 
ing weather, consequently in the spring of the year. Lachesis may also 
be used in ozsena of mercurial or syphilitic origin. Here you may 
compare Kali bichromicum, which follows Lachesis well; and also 
Aurum, Nit) ic acid, Mercmius, and Lac caninum. The last-named drug 
cures syphilitic ozsena and angina when the corners of the mouth and 
alsenasi are cracked. 

The cold may extend to the throat, and then we will find that the 
tonsils are enlarged, particularly the left one, or the inflammation may 
tend to spread from the left to the right tonsil. The throat, when ex- 
amined, exhibits a red hue, not bright or rosy- red, but bluish. The 
patient complains of a sense of constriction, as though the throat were 
suddenly closing up, or a sensation as though there were a lump in the 
throat which he must constantly swallow, but which as often returns. 
Pains in the left side of the throat extending to the tongue, jaw, ear. 
Rawness and burning. The throat externally is exceedingly sensitive to 
touch. Unless the tonsils are going on to suppuration , there is relief from 
swallowing solids, while swallowing of liquids and empty swallowing 
increase the pains. I except suppurating tonsils because, when they 
are large and stop up the fauces, nothing can be swallowed; then the 
attempt to take anything is followed by a violent ejection of the food, 
through either the mouth or the nose. But with the ordinary catar- 
rhal sore throat, when the tonsils are not parenchymatously swollen, 
the swallowing of food often relieves the irritation for a time. 
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50 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

The cold may travel farther down and involve the bronchial tubes, 
when a different class of s3 r mptoms develops. The patient may suffer 
from tickling, irritating cough, which is especially apt to come on as 
he drops off to sleep, arousing him as if he were choking. He can bear 
nothing to touch the larynx or throat, so that he loosens his neckband. 
These, briefly, are the catarrhal symptoms of Lachesis. 

But suppose, while we are considering this locality, we look to more 
serious affections which may manifest themselves in these parts, diph- 
theria, for example. Lachesis may be indicated in diphtheria of one or 
all of these parts. Symptoms for which you will be called upon to 
prescribe it are mostly those that I have already given you, with these 
points in addition: The discharge from the nose is thin, sanious, and 
excoriating; a really dangerous objective symptom. The throat is, if 
anything, a darker red than in the catarrhal state. The membrane is 
more marked on the left tonsil, or has an inclination to go from the left 
to the right. It early develops that gangrenous state which obtains in 
diphtheria, with the attendant foetid breath, and the increased danger of 
systemic infection. The tissues surrounding the throat are often in- 
filtrated so that you have swelling of the glands about the neck, and 
also of the cellular tissue. The swelling may be so great that the neck 
becomes even with the chin and sternum. The lymphatic glands are 
swollen, too, and have a dark purplish hue, and threaten suppuration. 
When pus does form, it is not a laudable pus. The child is drowsy, 
even though feverish; the heart, though beating more rapidly than 
normal, is evidently greatly weakened, as is shown by the feebleness of 
the pulse and coolness of the extremities. This is the kind of diph- 
theria in which you can hope much from the use of Lachesis. The 
diphtheritic deposit may extend down into the larynx, and the 
remedy still be indicated. You must not infer from this that Lachesis 
is the remedy for laryngeal diphtheria; but when it has the character- 
istic symptoms which I mention, it may be needed; the patient arouses 
from sleep smothering, and has a diphtheritic, croupy cough. 

Crotalns and Naja, like Lachesis, have relieved in diphtheria. The 
former has been selected when the epistaxis is persistent; blood oozes 
from the mouth, not merely coming from the posterior nares but escap- 
ing from the mucous membranes of the buccal cavity. 

Naja has helped in cases just like Lachesis, when the larynx is in- 
vaded; the patient grasps at the throat, with a sensation of choking, 
the fauces are dark-red; there is foetid breath, and short, hoarse 
cough, with raw feeling in larynx and upper part of the trachea. 



THE OPHIDIA. 51 

Lac caninum is very similar to Lachesis in diphtheria, but is readily 
distinguished by its peculiar habit of alternating sides. Starting on 
one side, frequently the left, the soreness and swelling, and even the 
membrane, suddenly shift to the opposite side, only to return, in a few 
hours, to the starting point. The membrane is grayish-yellow and 
curdy, and if ulcers form, they shine like silver-gloss. 

Lycopodium, which also resembles Lachesis, has aggravation of the 
symptoms from 4 to 8 p. m. The right side is mostly affected; the 
child awakes from sleep frightened or cross and angry. 

Apis is to be distinguished by the oedema of the throat, the stinging 
pains, the blisters on the border of the tongue, etc. 

Again, you may find Lachesis of great service in affections of the 
lungs. We ma)- use it in asthma when there are present one or more 
of these few symptoms. The patient arouses from sleep with the asth- 
matic paroxysm, and cannot bear the least pressure about the neck or 
chest; finally, he coughs up a quantity of water}- phlegm with great 
relief. This last is a neglected characteristic of Lachesis in asthma. I 
have succeeded with it in relieving an incurable asthmatic for months. 

In pneumonia Lachesis may be useful, but not in the early stages of 
the disease. There is nothing in the provings of Lachesis to suggest 
that it will be useful in pneumonia. It does not cause the engorge- 
ment of the lungs, the fever or the fibrinous deposit. But it ma)- be 
indicated in the later stages of the affection, when it assumes a typhoid 
form, especially when an abscess forms in the lungs. Brain symptoms, 
such as low muttering delirium and hallucinations, appear. The spu- 
tum is frothy, mixed with blood, and purulent, and the patient is 
bathed in a profuse sweat. 

Sulphur is, perhaps, the better remedy to prevent suppuration when 
there are no typhoid symptoms, but be careful how you give Sulphur 
if tuberculosis has been developed by pneumonia. To do so is almost 
like giving a person running down hill another push. It will only 
hasten the end. 

In chest affections Elaps is sometimes of great service. It affects 
the right more than the left lung, but both may be diseased. In the 
morning there is pain in the right side severe enough to prevent the 
patient's getting up. There is a feeling of coldness in the chest after 
drinking. The cough is accompanied by intense pains in the chest, 
worse in the right apex, as if it were torn out, and the sputum consists 
of black blood. 



52 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

You may use Lachesis in phthisis, not necessarily to cure, but to re- 
lieve. Remember it when, in the course of typhoid fever or pneu- 
monia, tubercles have been deposited in one or the other lung. You 
may use it in the advanced stages of tuberculosis of the lungs when 
the patient has a retching cough, which arouses him from sleep, and 
which ends in expectoration of tough, greenish muco-purulent matter, 
which causes gagging, and is vomited rather than clearly expectorated; 
when the patient sweats during every nap, the sweat being most 
copious about the neck, shoulders and chest, and when the strength 
is greatly reduced and the pulse indicates extreme prostration. 

Next we turn our attention to the alimentary canal from the mouth 
down. I referred to the tongue in speaking of the typhoid condition. 
Lachesis is useful for weakness of digestion in patients who, from some 
vicious habits, from abuse of Mercury, or of Quinine, or of alcohol, 
have so exhausted their stomachs that even the plainest food causes 
indigestion. Acids especially disagree, aggravating the stomach 
symptoms and causing diarrhoea. Sometimes a gnawing pain is re- 
lieved by eating or improves immediately after a meal, but soon a 
heavy pressure, as from a weight in the stomach, and other symptoms 
of indigestion show themselves. There may be a craving for coffee 
and oysters, which may not disagree. 

The liver is affected by Lachesis. Like all the snake-poisons, it 
causes jaundice. Even when abscesses form it may be useful by rea- 
son of the tenderness on pressure, intolerance of clothing, and deep 
throbbing in the right hypochondrium. 

The bowel symptoms are not numerous, though they are important. 
We find diarrhoea caused by the drug, with watery, horribly offensive 
stools; diarrhoea during the climaxis; diarrhoea of drunkards. Espe- 
cially may Lachesis be used in chronic diarrhoea with great debility 
and aggravation in spring weather. The tongue is smooth, red and 
shining {Kali bi.). The abdomen is bloated; very sensitive to touch 
about the waist. Constant tormenting urging in the rectum, but not 
for stool. It is merely a spasmodic condition of the bowels with an 
unduly irritable sphincter. The rectum protrudes and is held b3^ the 
constricted sphincter; after stool there is often a sensation in the rec- 
tum as from the beating of little hammers. These symptoms are com- 
mon enough in dyspeptics, particularly in those who have, abused 
alcohol. They are not infrequently associated with large, protruding 
haemorrhoids, which are worse at the menopause, or with scanty 



THE OPHIDIA. 53 

menses, with stitches upward at each cough or sneeze. They occur 
also in connection with constipation. The patient attempts to 
strain at stool, but must desist on account of pain in the sphincter. 
Unsuccessful urging; the anus feels closed. Stool hard, like sheep's 
dung, and excessively offensive. 

In dyspepsia Lachesis is very similar to Hepar. The latter remedy, 
however, has relief of the symptoms from the use of condiments. 

Under Hcpar the plainest food disagrees. The cravings are unique. 
As if knowing instinctively what will "tone up" the stomach, the pa- 
tient longs for condiments or wine. Eating relieves the relaxed feel- 
ing, but food annoys as soon as the digestive process begins its slow 
and imperfect work. The bowels move very sluggishly, even when 
the stools are soft. 

Cinchona, too, enfeebles digestion and induces great weakness and 
languor after meals. It also has a craving for coffee-beans. Fruits 
induce diarrhoea with intestinal fermentation. Both cause fulness after 
eating, but only in Cincho?ia is the fulness so severe as to cause pain, with 
little or no relief from belching. Bitter eructations and bitter taste be- 
long to each; the latter has the altered taste after swallowing, food 
retaining its normal taste while being masticated. The discharges 
from the bowels and the flatus are offensive; yellow watery stools, 
undigested. But the marked aggravation at night, after a meal, and 
the resulting prostration, are not at all like Lachesis. In dysentery, 
etc , when putrid or gangrenous changes occur, the choice is more 
difficult. Both have cadaverous smelling discharges of a chocolate 
color, with coldness and great debility. And, although Cinchona 
is far preferable if the disease is of malarial origin, such a complica- 
tion does not contra-indicate the snake-poison. The apparently close 
similarity is also enhanced by the nervous excitability in both. Light 
touch is distressing, the epigastrium is sensitive, and clothing annoys 
in each remedy. But this in Cinchona is an increased general sensi- 
bility, while in Lachesis there is general torpor, with hyperesthesia of 
the cutaneous nerves. The former is suitable when the offensive dis- 
charges follow a severe, rapidly exhausting inflammation, or when the 
frequency and quantity of the evacuations have greatly reduced the 
vitality, thus favoring retrogressive changes. If hectic symptoms 
are present, the choice is rendered more certain. In addition, we may 
also refer to the well-known anaemic symptoms of Cinchona, paleness, 
ringing in the ears, easy fainting, etc., which show at once how it 
affects the blood. 



54 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

Mercurius presents many points of similarity with Lachesis. The 
latter frequently follows the former, and also antidotes its abuse. 
There are loss of appetite, coated tongue, nausea with oppression, and 
epigastric tenderness. Pressure in the pit of the stomach produces a 
deadly faintness. The stomach hangs heavily, even after a light meal 
of food of ordinary digestibility. The sensitiveness of the stomach to 
the clothing is a part of a symptom which is completed by a similar 
tenderness over both hypochondria, with fulness and upward pressure 
from the abdomen. The patient cannot lie on the right side. If hy- 
pochondriacal, he is suspicious, anxious and restless at night, with 
vascular erethism and sweat. In fact, this erethism is directly con- 
trary to the torpid Lachesis. 

In abdominal inflammations with suppuration, as in typhlitis, both 
remedies are useful and follow each other well. Mercurius has its 
ever-present perspiration without relief; stools slimy, or much strain- 
ing, with or without stool. Lachesis follows when the symptoms 
threaten a typhoid condition. The patient can lie only on the back 
with the knees drawn up; if he turns to the left side, a ball seems 
to roll over in the abdomen. 

In the rectum and anus, Mercurius has more persistent tenesmus; 
protrusion of the rectum, which looks inflamed and blackish; Lachesis \ 
more spasmodic tenesmus, with constriction of the anus, which tightly 
constricts the prolapsed rectum. Both have chronic constipation. 
The former induces much straining, with tenacious or crumbling stools; 
chilliness during defecation. 

Arsenicum intensifies the gastric and systemic weakness to which we 
referred in the remedies just considered. While it is true that the pa- 
tient does not fully realize his want of strength, and hence does not 
care so much to lie quietly, nevertheless the actual amount of his vitality 
is seriously reduced. In a word, he is excessively weak without feeling 
so fatigued. Any exertion produces fainting. Taste is lost, or is 
bitter, sour, and putrid. The stomach feels swollen as if full of water. 
Craving for acids and for coffee; the latter, as in Lachesis, agrees with 
the patient. There are burning feelings, red rough tongue, and anx- 
iety and distress after eating, as in subacute gastritis, which no remedy 
pictures better. Nausea is frequent, and often periodical (12 p. m.) 
and is accompanied by great prostration. The vomiting is of many- 
kinds, but is distinguished from the bilious, slimy, or bloody emesis 
of Lachesis by its irregular convulsive character, indicative of gastric 



THE OPHIDIA. 55 

irritability. Lachesis is adapted to the nervous weakness and trem- 
bling of drunkards; spasm of the stomach, spasmodic constrictions, 
relieved temporarily by eating; vomiting of bile or mucus; Arsenic 
is adapted to burning periodical pains, with sour acrid vomiting; vio- 
lent thirst, but vomits the water. 

Cadmium sulph. has nausea, } T ellowish or black vomit, saltish rancid 
belching, cold sweat of the face, burning, cutting in the stomach; 
cramps after beer, griping in the lower part of the bowels. Both this 
remedy and Lachesis induce marked sensitiveness to touch upon 
stomach or abdomen, spots of burning soreness here and there over the 
swollen abdomen (peritonitis); offensive, bloody, chocolate-colored 
discharges, as in dysentery, with constriction in the bowels; cutting 
pains in bowels. But in Arsenic there is more lamenting with ago- 
nized expression; restless moving despite the pains. The constriction 
of the intestines is torturing; the patient declares he cannot stand it, 
and rolls about in agony, despairing of his life. The extreme tender- 
ness of the pit of the stomach denotes a more positive state of acute 
inflammation than Lachesis causes. 

In the vomiting of yellow fever Lachesis has, in addition, brown 
coating on the teeth and abdominal tenderness. 

Arsenic has also spasmodic protrusion of the rectum; very painful 
tenesmus with burning; haemorrhoids, especially in drunkards; they 
protrude at stool with burning. Alvine discharges are offensive, dark, 
sometimes involuntary, with great weakness and coldness. But Lachesis 
has less tenesmus recti, the distress there being attributable to a con- 
striction of the anus not found in the other drug. Arsenic, moreover, 
causes more acridity of the stools, with rawness and excoriation of 
the anus. 

All that I have here stated regarding the difference between these 
two drugs might be tersely stated thus: One causes intense irritabil- 
ity and acnte inflammation of tissue, mental anguish, and extreme pros- 
tration; the other, torpidity, with loss of vitality, but associated with 
nervous excitability, constrictions, and cutaneous hyperesthesia. 
Still, some minds require more attention to detail; and every one re- 
tains general mental impressions more accurately if they are formed 
with due attention to particulars. 

When there is ulceration of the bowels, tendency to sloughing, with 
offensive, purulent, or bloody discharges, the two remedies are very 
nearly allied. Vitality is at a very low ebb; blood oozes from the 



56 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

cracked lips and tongue, and the extremities are cold. But even here 
the best distinctions are the mental irritability of Arsenic, and the in- 
tolerance of pressure of Lachesis. 

Carbo vegetabilis resembles Lachesis in weak digestion, complaints of 
drunkards, flatulent asthma, constriction of the oesophagus, annoy- 
ance from clothing about the waist, offensive, bloody, decomposed, 
purulent stools, collapse, etc. 

There is craving for coffee, but it does not relieve. Milk dis- 
agrees in both remedies, but only the snake-poison has craving for it. 
Carbo veg. has aggravation from fats, tainted meats, fish, oysters, 
foods causing flatulency, ices, vinegar, and sour cabbage — the latter 
principally on account of the flatulency it causes. Eructations are 
sour, rancid. Both drugs have relief of flatulent distension from 
belching, but Lachesis has an ill feeling in addition, which is relieved. 
Both drugs experience freer breathing after belching. In Carbo veg. 
this is expressed as the lessening of a tension and upward drawing 
which marks the costal attachments of the diaphragm; in Lachesis 
there is a relief after eructations which seem to suffocate him. They 
come rapidly, and induce the ever-present Lachesis constriction of the 
throat. The latter remedy also has empty eructations, which in- 
tensify the pains. 

Carbo veg. has heaviness, fulness, sleepiness after eating, with ful- 
ness of the abdomen, almost to bursting. Burning in the stomach is 
also increased. This heaviness is very characteristic, and is noted 
likewise in the abdomen, which seems to hang heavily; also in the 
head, which feels as heavy as lead. The burning is attended with a 
creeping feeling up to the throat. In Lachesis, the fulness and press- 
ure is as from a load, and the sense of repletion induces lowness of 
spirits. There is, also, a feeling as if a lump were forming in the 
stomach and also in the bowels; burning, with hard abdominal disten- 
sion, and a feeling as if a stone was descending; he must stand still or 
step cautiously. This lump is presumably a part of the Lachesis 
constriction, which we have so often designated as highly character- 
istic. In Carbo veg. the flatus is more rancid, putrid, or, when passed 
per anum, burning, moist, offensive. Its incarceration with burning 
is a cause of many of the symptoms, and it is more in quantity than in 
the snake- poison. It also causes a bearing down upon the bladder and 
sacral region. Lachesis relieves a gnawing gastralgia, when eating 
lessens the pain; Carbo veg. cures when there is burning, with a con- 



THE OPHIDIA. 57 

strictive cramp, bending him double; the pains are paroxysmal and 
take his breath. The burning spreads up to the chest and down into 
the abdomen, seemingly following the sympathetic. 

Tenesmus recti is most prominent in Carbo veg., anal constric- 
tion in Lachesis It is this latter symptom which explains, as 
we have before observed, the ineffectual urging to stool; while in 
Carbo veg. the urging is fruitless on account of the pressure of 
flatus. Both have bluish, protruding piles, as after debauchery. 
This constriction distinguishes them, as do also the headache and 
diarrhoea In each there is throbbing headache, but Carbo veg. has 
more of the heaviness, and the diarrhoea is thin. 

In typhoid conditions, whether the specific fever, or as a sequel to 
peritonitis, dysentery, etc., Carbo veg. causes the more perfect picture 
of collapse, while in Lachesis the cardiac debility, drowsiness, cool ex- 
tremities, etc., indicate failing vitality, but the patient is not so near 
death as in the former drug. Inthe collapse of Carbo veg. there are 
tympany; cold legs, especially to the knees; filiform pulse; cool breath; 
absence of discharges from the bowels; or involuntary, putrid, bloody, 
purulent diarrhoea. 

In hernia, Carbo veg. has anxiety, as in Arsenic, but with uneasi- 
ness rather than restless change of place; and it resembles Lachesis in 
the annoyance of the clothing, foulness of the parts, if strangulated, 
etc. There is, however, more meteorism and foetid flatus. 

Graphites has anxiety, melancholy; tip of the tongue blistered; feeling 
of a lump in the left side of the throat, over which the food seems to 
pass with difficulty; on empty deglutition, a constrictive retching 
from the oesophagus up to the larynx; must loosen the clothing after eat- 
ing; gastralgia, relieved by eating; chronic gastritis, especially after 
abuse of alcoholic drinks. Sensation of a lump in the stomach; flatulent 
distension of the abdomen, with congestion to the head; foetid flatus. 
Suffocative spells arousing from sleep, must jump out of bed; com- 
pelled to eat something to relieve the pain. Offensive stools. 

But this remedy causes more flatulence than Lachesis. The gastral- 
gic pains are burning and griping, and the feeling of a lump in the 
stomach is accompanied by a constant beating; the heartburn is 
rancid. The suffocative spells are usually worse after 12 p. m. instead 
of during or after a sleep at any time; and the constriction noticed on 
falling asleep is of the chest instead of the larynx. The offensive 
movements from the bowels are half-digested, dark and papp}^, 



58 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

indicating the imperfect digestion which is so characteristic of this 
remedy. 

There is some resemblance in the constitutional symptoms of Graph- 
ites and Lachesis, since both are needed at times in phlegmatic patients; 
but the former is related to a distinguishing type; fat, cold and costive; 
skin herpetic, rough and disposed to crack and ooze a glutinous fluid. 

Aside, then, from a few resemblances to the snake- poison, Graphites 
belongs more with Arsenic, Nux vomica and Lycopodium. It resembles 
the first two in gastritis and gastralgia; the latter in flatulency. 

Sulphuric acid resembles the snake-poisons somewhat, especially in 
the ailments of drunkards. Its corrosive effects, however, are distinc- 
tively prominent, as shown in the violent inflammation of the alimen- 
tary canal. But the nervous system is so involved that several symp- 
toms look like those of Lachesis, as, for instance, epigastrium sensi- 
tive, constrictive feeling in the bowels, griping, cutting, twisting, with 
faint-like nausea; trembling, pale face, apprehensiveness; fluttering 
pulse; cramps in the pharynx; he cannot swallow; oesophageal stric- 
ture; great weakness, etc. Both, moreover, crave brandy. 

The acid acts well when the patient is weak, emaciated and com- 
plains of trembling, which, however, is more subjective than objective. 
He is anxious and restless; must do everything hurriedly. The face 
is pale, and sometimes presents dry, shrivelled spots, especially when 
the haemorrhoids are worse. Eructations are sour. The stomach feels 
relaxed and cold. Wine may palliate and distilled liquors aggravate, 
as in Lachesis; but the peculiarity of the acid is that the stomach re- 
jects cold water unless it is mixed with brandy. The abdominal mus- 
cles are spasmodically retracted. Stools are yellow, like Lachesis, but 
present a chopped appearance, and are stringy; they are watery, diar- 
rhoeic and very offensive. Piles are moist, burn, and may prevent 
defaecation. 

As the acid causes croupous formations, it should be remembered 
with Lachesis when the stools indicate such a condition in the intestine. 

The acid also resembles Elaps; drinks feel like ice in the stomach; 
but only the former has the relief from the admixture of spirit. The 
Elaps diarrhoea resembles that of the rest of the order, but this remedy 
is particularly called for when the stools consist of black, frothy blood 
with twisting pains in the bowels. 

Colchicum deserves mention here, especially since, like Lachesis, it 
causes coldness or cold feeling in the stomach {Elaps), intolerance of 



THE OPHIDIA. 59 

pressure of the clothing, burning in the stomach, vomiting and purging, 
spasms of the sphincter ani ', urging to stool, offensive flatus, offensive diar- 
rhoea, sensitiveness to the least touch, very much exhausted, slow 
breathing, feeble pulse. But there is generally present nausea, worse 
from the smell of food; if the patient sits or lies very quietly, the vomit- 
ing is suppressed (like Veratrum) . Senses too acute; a bright light, 
touch or strong odors irritate him (like Nux vom.) . Vomiting and purg- 
ing as in cholera morbus; the sphincter ani contracts after each stool, 
with fruitless urging. The similarity, then, exists chiefly in the sen- 
sitiveness to touch and the constrictions of sphincters with weakness, 
other symptoms being so different as to render a choice easy. (See 
also below.) 

In cholera Lachesis has been employed when the vomiting was re- 
newed by the least motion and the nausea was attended with a great 
flow of saliva. As Colchicnm has precisely the same symptoms other 
indications must decide. 

In reflex irritation, as convulsions with variegated, slimy stools in 
teething children, and rolling of the head, Colchicum resembles Podo- 
phyllum. 

Belladonna, Lachesis, Rhus tox. and Baptisia constitute a group ser- 
viceable in peritonitis, enteritis, etc. 

Belladonna differs from all in the character of the inflammation. It 
is only when the affection becomes asthenic that the others are needed. 
Lachesis follows Belladonna when, especially in children with inflam- 
matory diarrhoea, constipation suddenlj 7 sets in with abdominal swell- 
ing and tenderness, particularly at one spot, or if suppuration ensues 
and Mercurius fails, or, again, if gangrene threatens. 

In peritonitis Lachesis is indicated late in the disease, when the fever 
still continues and is worse after i p. m. and at night. The slightest 
touch on the surface of the body is intolerable. Typhoid symptoms 
complicate the case. It may even be indicated when there is typhlitis 
after the formation of pus. It follows, particularly, Belladonna, Bry- 
onia or Mercurius corrosivus. It is also similar to Rhus tox., but, hav- 
ing more typhoid symptoms, comes in later in the case. 

Rhus tox. requires drowsiness, the fever remaining high or increas- 
ing; restlessness; tongue dry^, parched, brown, with red, triangular 
tip; diarrhoea slimy, watery or putrid, yellowish-brown and bloody, 
involuntary during sleep; generally it is accompanied by tearing 
down the thighs, while Lachesis has painful stiffness from the loins into 



60 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

the thighs. In typhlitis, in which affection either may follow Bella- 
donna, Rhus tox. has relief from pressing the swelling gently from be- 
low upward; Lachesis, intolerance of touch. 

In periproctitis Rhus tox. may be needed if the inflammation is of 
traumatic origin; Lachesis, if an abscess forms and fails to point, the 
surrounding tissues presenting a purplish hue. 

Colchicum compares with Lachesis when the prostration is extreme, 
with coma, hot abdomen, cold extremities, and thready pulse; if raised, 
the head falls back and the jaw drops; the face is hippocratic, the 
tongue is protruded with difficulty, and the bowels move involuntarily. 
But the tympany is more marked in the former; and the stools contain 
white flakes or shreds; the tongue is either thickly coated brown or it 
is bright red, except at the root, where it is coated. According to 
provings and cases of poisoning, Colchicum does not cause sensitive ab- 
domen below the epigastrium. 

Aryiica develops a profound stupor, with blowing respiration, dry 
tongue, brown down the middle, distended abdomen, and involuntary 
faeces and urine. It may be distinguished by the ecchymoses and the 
bruised aching, inducing restlessness, which latter is relieved if the 
patient's clothing is smoothed down and his position changed. 

Among the remedies causing constriction of the anus, the following 
are worthy of notice: Bellad., Caustic, Nitric ac, Nat. mur., /gnat., 
Kalibi., Opium, Plumbum, Mezereum, Coccul. 

The first has pressing and urging toward the anus and genitals, alter- 
nating with contractions of the anus; spasmodic constriction of the 
anus, as in dysentery. 

The second, Causticum, causes fruitless urging to stool, with anxiety 
and red face. 

Nitric acid causes sticking in the rectum, as from a splinter; the 
constriction occurs during stool and lasts for hours afterward; the 
rectum feels as if torn. 

Natrum mur. has a sensation of contraction in the rectum during 
stool; the faeces tear the anus; frequent ineffectual urging; spasmodic 
constriction of the anus. 

fgnatia induces a proctalgia; contraction, with cutting, shooting 
pains; contraction of the anus worse after stool. Symptoms are incon- 
sistent, irregular, fitful, as in hysteria. 

Kali bi. has a sensation of a plug, similar to Lachesis; diarrhoea of 
a brown, frothy water, spurting out in the early morning and followed 
by tenesmus ani. 



THE OPHIDIA. 6 1 

In Opium the anus is spasmodically closed during the colic, with ob- 
stinate constipation. Plumbum is very similar. 

But all these are readily distinguished from Lachesis by the charac- 
teristic symptoms of the latter: Tormenting urging in the rectum, but 
on account of constriction of the anus it becomes so painful he must 
desist; protruding piles, with constricted anus. 

Much nearer, and indeed almost identical here, is Mezereum; after 
the stool, the anus is constricted around the protruded rectum. In 
other respects, however, the two remedies are widely different. 

Kali bichromicum must also be remembered as a relative of Lachesis 
in dysentery. Both have red, cracked, smooth tongue; blackish stools; 
hence both are useful in severe or typhoidal cases, and here they fol- 
low each other well. The offensive odor of the discharges distin- 
guishes the latter; the jelly-like, sometimes stringy mucus, the for- 
mer. 

A peculiar feature of Cocculus is tenesmus recti after stool, with 
faintness, and yet peristalsis is lessened. (Compare Ignatia.~) 



LECTURE V. 

THE OPHIDIA. 

Lachesis {continued) . 

Lachesis causes in the male an increased lasciviousuess with dimi- 
nution of the physical powers. The mind is a prey to all sorts of 
allurements, but erections and emissions are imperfect. 

Upon the female organs, Lachesis acts very powerfully. It seems 
to have special affinity for the ovaries, particularly the left ovary; 
ovaritis, ovaralgia, and tumor, may be relieved when there are tenderness 
to pressure of the clothing and other characteristic symptoms of the 
drug. Menses scanty, feeble, blood lumpy, black, and very offensive; 
pains in the hips, bearing down in the region of the left ovary — all bet- 
ter when the flow is established. The uterus is also intolerant of the 
least pressure. 

Lachesis may be used in puerperal metritis, especially when the 
lochial discharge is foetid. The face is purple and the patient uncon- 
scious. 

It is indicated in ovarian tumors when the disease shows a tendency 
to extend from left to right, even when suppuration has taken place. 
It is especially called for after Hepar or Mercurius when there is great 
adynamia. 

In syphilis, Lachesis is called for as an antidote to mercury or when 
the chancre becomes gangrenous. Its characteristics are found in its 
peculiar sore throat, the blue surroundings of the ulcers, nightly bone- 
pains, violent headache, and the phagedenic chancre. 

The syphilitic ulcers on the legs are flat and have blue surround- 
ings; caries of the tibia; the parts are sensitive and livid; ulcers in the 
throat; bone-pains at night; all after abuse of mercury. 

The bluish ulcers ally it with: Hepar, Asafcetida, Lycopodium, Siticea, 
Arsenic; the pimples, blisters, or pustules surrounding the ulcers 
ally it with: Arsenic, Phosphorus, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Hepar, 
Siticea, etc.; the burning in the areola with: Arsenic, Lycopodium, 
Mercurius, Siticea; the offensive pus with: Arsenic, Asafcetida, Lyco- 



THE OPHIDIA. 63 

podium, Silicea, Sulphur, Hepar; the ulcers, being flat, with: Arsenic, 
Asafcetida Lycopodium, Mercurius, Silicea, Phosphoric acid, etc.; if 
they become black or gangrenous, with: Arsenic, Secale. Silicea, 
Plumbum, Carbo veg., Euphorbium, Muriatic acid. But Lachesis has 
the burning most marked when the ulcer is touched. The surround- 
ing skin is mottled. Ulcers on the legs tend to spread superficially 
(rather than deeply, as, for example, in Kali bi.), the discharge is 
scanty and the strength is failing. Dark blisters encircle the ulcers 
and the surrounding skin is dead. Sometimes the discharge ceases, 
the patient is stupid, cold, the leg becomes cedematous, and a bluish- 
red swelling along the course of the veins shows that phlebitis exists. 
All this looks like Arsenic, Carbo veg., Bufo, Secale, Cinchona, etc. 
But Arsenic presents more vascular excitement and nervous irritability 
with the prostration. Carbo veg. induces still greater prostration than 
Lachesis, cold sweat, cool breath, collapse. The ulcer has a cadaver- 
ous odor. In mild cases there is no resemblance at all between the 
two, for Carbo veg. causes much burning, rawness in the folds of 
the skin; borders of the ulcer hard, but not oversensitive, as in 
Lachesis. 

Hepar should be remembered as a concordant of Lachesis, espe- 
cially because it is so useful after abuse of mercurials. The areola of 
the ulcer is very sensitive, but there is a sore, bruised feeling, together 
with hyperesthesia. And, although the suppurating part may turn 
bluish and the patient experience weakness, yet there are no evidences 
of loss of vitality and gangrene, such as suggest the later-indicated 
drug, Lachesis. 

Lycopodium is here again a complement of the snake-poison. If syphi- 
litic ulcers appear in the throat, they are dark grayish-yellow, worse 
on the right side. The forehead exhibits a coppery eruption and the 
face is sallow, often furrowed, but lacks the small red bloodvessels 
which shine through the yellow skin in Lachesis. Chancres are indo- 
lent. Condylomata are pediculated. Ulcers on the legs refuse to heal, 
with tearing burning, worse at night; they are made worse by poul- 
tices or by any attempt to dress them. The pus is often golden-yellow. 
There is flatulent dyspepsia. 

Nitric acid, should it seem similar in phagedenic chancre, ulcers on 
the tibia, etc., may easily be distinguished by the irregular edges of 
the ulcer, which also presents exuberant, easily-bleeding granulations; 
and its mouth and throat symptoms may be differentiated by the cracks 



64 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

of the commissures of the lips, sensations of a splinter in the throat, 
etc. 

Kali iodatum exhibits a very different train o£ symptoms from La- 
chesis. Gnawing, boring bone-pains; throbbing and burning in nasal 
and frontal bones; greenish-yellow, excoriating ozaena; papules ulcer- 
ating and leaving scars; rupia; chancres with hard edges and curdy 
pus; ulcers deep- eating; violent headache, much more severe than in 
the snake-poison, and causing hard lumps on the head. Tendency to 
interstitial infiltration of soft tissues and also of bones, thus more ex- 
tended than with Lachesis, which infiltrates only the soft tissues. 

In the uterine and ovarian symptoms of Lachesis your attention is 
directed to the following comparisons. 

Platina has profuse, dark menses instead of scanty flow, and the hau- 
teur is much more pronounced. The nymphomania is accompanied by 
titillation and tingling of the genitals or with vaginismus. In ovarian 
affections this drug has relieved after Lachesis failed, as in suppuration 
of the ovary, the pus having been evacuated under the action of the 
latter. The pains are burning, with violent bearing down. 

Palladium has relieved induration and swelling of the right ovary, 
as has Lachesis. Mentally the two are widely different. The former 
develops an egotism which manifests itself in the patient's concern ior 
the good opinion of others, consequently her pride is often injured. 
Mental emotions aggravate the ovarian pains, as in the snake-poison, 
but in a different way. The Lachesis patient is ecstatic or at least ex- 
citable; the relating of stories moves her to tears. The Palladium pa- 
tient is easily agitated in society; a lively conversation or some evening 
entertainment increases her pains and tries her mentally and bodily. 

In ovarian affections Apis stands closely allied to Lachesis, but it 
acts more on the right ovary than on the left. There is a bruised, 
sore feeling, or a stinging, burning. At other times the pains are de- 
scribed as lancinating. 

In prolapsus uteri or during the menses the bearing down seems to 
be in the right ovary; pains followed by a scanty dark mucus. 

Both have pains from the left to the right ovary, but in Apis these 
are experienced while stretching. There is also a strained feeling in 
the ovarian region, very characteristic. The pains may ascend in 
either, but in Apis they are in the right ovaty, with pain also in the 
left pectoral region, and cough. 

Mentally there is considerable similarity (see Mind). Both have 



THE OPHIDIA. 65 

jealousy, with talkativeness and increased sexual desire; restlessness, 
with bustling manners. 

Arsenic affects the ovaries and uterus, and has metrorrhagia of dark 
blood, and increased sexual desire. But this powerful agent affects more 
the right ovary, with marked burning, tensive pains and restlessness, 
which is somewhat relieved by constantly moving the feet; menstrual 
colic, better from warm applications. 

Lycopodium reverses the Lachesis direction of pains, shooting from 
right to left. Its gastro-enteric symptoms are also always present. 

Although Graphites more often affects the left ovary it will also relieve 
when pains in the right ovarian region are followed by a discharge 
from the vagina, but constitutionally- this drug and Lachesis differ. 

A marked symptom of Lachesis is the relief of pain when the blood 
flows. Compare Moschus, drawing, pulling at beginning of menses, 
ceasing with the menstrual flow; Ziricum, relief of boring in the left 
ovary (just like Lachesis). 

Platina and Ammonium carb. have pains which continue with the 
flow, the former even with a profuse discharge, the latter with flow 
between pains. In Actea racemosa the more profuse the flow is the 
greater is the pain. 

Now, the heart, circulation and fevers. Lachesis, as I have already 
intimated, affects the circulation markedly; it causes flushing of heat, 
as at the climaxis; rush of blood headward, with coldness of the feet; 
palpitation of the heart, with a feeling of constriction about the heart as 
if tightly held by cords. These latter symptoms, with the oppression 
of the chest, the dyspnoea on awaking, and the inability to lie down, 
have led to the use of Lachesis in hydrothorax and hydropericardium 
when dependent on organic disease of the heart. 

Lachesis is indicated in general dropsy when the urine is dark, al- 
most blackish, and contains albumen, and the skin over the cedematous 
parts is dark bluish-black. I remember a man, sixty years of age, 
who had just this sort of dropsy, and continued to live for six months 
under the action of Lachesis, and whose death, when it came, was 
painless. It is especially useful in the ascites following scarlatina and 
the ascites of drunkards, when the above symptoms are present. 

In renal and vesical affections Lachesis is to be selected more by the 

general than by the local symptoms. For instance, in albuminuria or 

morbus Brightii, the respiratory symptoms, aggravation after sleep, 

and blue surface are more characteristic than the urinary symptoms- 

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66 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

In cystitis the drug is indicated when the offensive mucus introduces 
the universal characteristic of tendency to putrescence. And the more 
this offensiveness of the urine is disproportionately intense, when com- 
pared with the time of the vesical retention of the mucus, the more 
likely is Lachesis to be the remedy. 

In haematuria the drug, like its powerful rival Crotalus, is called for 
when the symptoms occur as an evidence of blood degeneration, as in 
low fevers; hence there is the characteristic deposit of disintegrated 
blood-cells, of fibrin, etc., presenting the appearance of charred straw. 
In albuminuria after scarlatina there is dropsy from delayed desquam- 
ation, and the urine is black or contains black spots. This spotted 
appearance is precisely like Helleborus. Other remedies causing black 
urine are Colckicum, Natrum mur., Carbolic acid and Digitalis. Apis, 
Ammonium benz., Arsenicum, Benzoic acid, Arnica, Opium, Car bo veg., 
Kali car b. and Terebinthina produce dark turbid urine. Lachesis alone, 
however, has the foaming urine and the general characteristics already 
discussed. 

Helleborus is to be distinguished by the sensorial apathy, muscular 
weakness, pale puffed face and jelly-like, mucous diarrhoea which ac- 
company its dropsy. The patient may breathe better when lying 
down, which is the converse of Lachesis and Arsenicum. 

Digitalis, with blackish, scanty, turbid urine, faintness from weak 
heart, with bluish face, looks very much like Lachesis here. In the 
latter there is more laryngeal constriction, as well as oppression and 
constriction of the chest; in the former the suffocative constriction is 
as if the internal parts of the chest had grown together. Digitalis has 
also sinking or faintness at the stomach, as if life was becoming ex- 
tinct. 

Terebinthina, has smoky and turbid urine, depositing a sediment like 
coffee-grounds. It is often. indicated in dropsy after scarlatina. The 
sediment contains disintegrated blood-corpuscles; haematuria. Dysp- 
noea; the patient must be propped up in bed. There is great drowsi- 
ness. The tongue is dry and glossy. Clinically, Terebinthina has 
proved useful in the early stages of renal disease, when congestion 
predominates, that is, before renal casts appear in any great quantity. 
It causes more intense burning and pain in the back than Lachesis, 
and the urine may have a violet odor. In typhoid fever both renal 
and alvine discharges resemble those of Lachesis. Foetid stools, haem- 
orrhages from the bowels, caused by ulceration; the blood is dark, 



THE OPHIDIA. 67 

sooty and looks like coffee- grounds. Foetid urine; disintegrated blood 
in the urine. In addition, Terebinthina causes stupor, dry, smooth, 
glossy tongue and great weakness. But it is distinguished by a pre- 
ponderance of tympanites, with burning, which is accompanied by a 
smooth tongue, as if it had lost its papillae. 

Apis simulates Lachesis in post-scarlatinal dropsy, for both remedies 
have albuminuria, scanty urine, which is dark from decomposed blood, 
and dyspnoea. But Apis usually requires thirstlessness, pale waxen 
skin and an eruption here or there resembling nettle-rash, red pimples 
or an erysipelatous rosy appearance of the anasarcous limbs. 

Arsenicum is needed in cases of renal disease when the urine is scanty 
and albuminous without blood, the remedy being required on account 
of its well-defined heart symptoms or its mental restlessness, etc. 
Thus far it needs no differentiation here. But if the urine is dark, 
turbid, blood-mixed, depositing a coffee-like sediment, if there is or- 
thopnea with cold legs, bronchial catarrh, great difficulty in breath- 
ing until phlegm is raised, spasmodic constriction of the larynx, the 
choice may demand further comparison. Arsenicum cures when the 
urine looks like dark dung- water, and renal casts are abundant. The 
dyspnoea is noticed more when the patient attempts to lie down in the 
evening, and again it arouses him after 12 p. m.; it is relieved by the 
expectoration of mucus. In Lachesis the dyspnoea is worse when, after 
lying down, he drops off to sleep, relief follows the hawking loose or 
coughing up of a small amount of thick adherent mucus, and there is 
far more annoyance from the contact of the clothing than there is with 
Arsenicum. In the latter the clothing is torn loose lest its pressure 
smother the patient; in the former there is added a cutaneous hyper- 
esthesia. 

Col chimin causes an intense congestion of the mucous membrane of 
the stomach and bowels, and also of the kidneys. The urine is dark, 
turbid, albuminous, bloody and as black as ink. There is dropsy. But 
Colchicum is readity distinguished from Lachesis by the prominence of 
irritation of the sphincter vesicae with tenesmus of the bladder after 
urination. It is especially indicated in gouty patients, who at the same 
time suffer from a nervous weakness, which is combined with hyper- 
sensitiveness. If this latter symptom seems to resemble Lachesis, we 
may readily distinguish by the general effects of Colchicum, namely, 
oversensitiveness to touch (except perhaps the tympanitic abdomen); 
senses too acute, especially over- affected by strong odors; gastric 



68 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

symptoms are prominent; mental labor fatigues, causing inability to fix 
the thoughts or to think connectedly; headache, the skin of the scalp 
feels tense; coated tongue; nausea; great weakness, yet easily irri- 
tated by external impressions. A peculiarity of Colchicum is that if 
there are copious salivation and urinary secretion, the stools are 
scanty and attended with tenesmus, and vice versa. 

I need not dwell upon the fevers of Lackesis, because I mentioned 
them in speaking of the mental symptoms of the drug. I may, how- 
ever, speak of the intermittent fever which recurs in the spring-time 
in spite of the use of quinine in the fall. The chill comes on at one 
or two o'clock in the afternoon. During the chill — and here is a symp- 
tom which is characteristic — the patient feels that he -must have cloth- 
ing piled on him, not so much to keep him warm as to keep him still. 
He wants to be held down firmly to relieve the shaking and the pains 
in the chest and head. The fever is characterized by burning pun- 
gency, by the oppression of the chest and the heart, and by the asso- 
ciated drowsiness and loquacity. Desire to be held down during chill 
is also characteristic of Gelsemium. 

Carbo veg., like Lackesis, has annual return of the paroxysms, lo- 
quacity during the hot stage, thirstlessness during the fever, oppressed 
breathing. The patient is very weak from protracted disease and 
abuse of quinine. But the thirst is greatest during the chill, not be- 
fore it, and the chill is often accompanied by cold breath, coldness of 
the knees, even when wrapped up in bed. Flushes of burning heat 
in the evening attacks, without thirst. Flatulency. One-sided chills, 
left side generally. Collapse more marked. 

Capsicum agrees in thirst before chill, desire for warmth, chill begin- 
ning in the back; irregular, intermittent pulse. But with the red pep- 
per the chill commences in the back and spreads thence; the thirst 
continues into the chill, and drinking aggravates (see Elaps). The 
patient is relieved by hot applications, as by a hot water-bottle ap- 
plied to the back. 

Menyanthes is preferable when the disease manifests itself as a cold- 
ness of the tip of the nose, the ear-lobes, and the tips of the fingers 
and toes. Feet to knees icy cold. Hands and feet icy cold, rest of 
the body warm. When Lachesis is called for in such irregular cases, 
with cold nose, etc., the livid skin and great weakness, as shown by 
the filiform pulse, are sufficiently distinctive. 

Agreeing more accurately are the following remedies, all of which 



THE OPHIDIA. 69 

produce weak or thready pulse, coldness orblueness of the skin, and, of 
course, great prostration: Carbo veg. (see above). 

Veratrum album, but in this drug the chill is associated with thirst, 
and (if internal) runs downward, not upward. Skin blue, cold, in- 
elastic; hands blue; face, mouth and tongue cold; breathing op- 
pressed and labored; heart weak; cold, clammy sweat, worse on the 
forehead. Heat has no palliative effect. 

Arsenic, external heat relieves; mouth and tongue cold; face blue; 
single parts of the surface blue. Anxious restlessness despite the great 
debility; cold, clammy sweat. Suffocative attacks of breathing. 

Camphor, icy-cold surface, but hot internally, so he throws off the 
clothing; face deathly pale; limbs blue; breath generally hot. Spasms, 
or, if conscious, voice altered. Sopor follows. 

Hydrocyanic acid, marble-like coldness of the whole body. Pulse feeble 
or imperceptible. Long-lasting faints. Drinks roll audibly down the 
oesophagus. Clutches at the heart as if in distress. Spasms; espe- 
cially muscles of back and jaw are stiff. 

Helleborus, muscles relaxed; suddenly he falls, with coldness, cold 
sweat on the forehead; slow pulse. Horrible convulsions, with ex- 
treme coldness. Rheumatic pains in the knees. 

Digitalis, like the snake-poison, weakens the heart. The skin is 
very cold. Copious sweat, but the heart symptoms are not relieved. 
Pulse intermits every third, fifth or seventh beat; very slow pulse. 
It will be remembered that Lachesis has oppression of the chest, with 
cold feet. As the latter become warmer the oppression lessens. 

Secale, cold surface; sunken, pale face and blue lips. Will not be 
covered. Tingling in the limbs; holds the hands with the fingers 
widely spread apart. Cold, clammy sweat. Speech feeble, stuttering. 

Hyoscyamus resembles Lachesis in the chill up the back, objective 
coldness of the body, convulsions, delirium. But the chill is worse 
at night, and spreads from the feet to the spine, and thence to the 
neck. The lowering of the temperature is accompanied hy slow 
arterial action, drowsiness, or by delirious and excited talk; picks 
at the bed-clothing, fears being poisoned, hallucinations, fibrillary 
twitchings, etc. 

Lachnanthes, like Lachesis, causes glistening eyes during the chill, 
icy coldness of the body, relieved by warmth. But only the former 
has brilliant eyes and circumscribed red cheeks with the fever and de- 
lirium. 



70 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Lycopodium follows Lachesis. It is needed in fevers when the pa- 
tient becomes drowsy or stupid; coldness, as if lying on ice. One foot 
warm, the other cold — an important symptom. Feels as if the blood 
ceased to circulate. 

In intermittent fever the chill begins in the back, as in Lachesis. 
It is worse from 4 to 8 p. m., or at 7 p. m. ; hands and feet numb and 
icy cold. Sour eructations or vomit are almost invariably present, es- 
pecially between chill and heat. Thirst mostly after the sweat. De- 
sires hot drinks only. 

Apis here, as in many other instances, favors the snake-poison. 
Both are suited to old or maltreated cases; afternoon chill, oppres- 
sion of the chest, nose cold, pulse fluttering, skin of hands and arms 
blue, and general appearance of collapse. But the bee- poison has ag- 
gravation from heat, Lachesis has not; the former has much more 
marked oppression of the chest, with consequent smothering. The 
tongue is red, raw, and covered on tip and borders with vesicles. 
Thirst during and not before the chill. Urticaria. 

Cuprum combines coldness with convulsive phenomena. Icy cold- 
ness of the whole body. Severe cramps in the extremities, with cold 
sweat, blue surface; also collapse. Urine suppressed. Employed suc- 
cessfully in the cold stage of cholera, after Camphor, but also useful in 
other forms of collapse. For instance, it has antidoted snake-bite, 
with cramps, delirium, and finally torpor. 

L^achesis may also be indicated in scarlet fever, but not in the Syden- 
ham variety of the disease, but in those forms which have a malignant 
tendency. The child is drowsy and falls readily into a heavy sleep. 
The rash comes out very imperfectly or very slowly, and has a dark 
purple hue. It may be interspersed with a miliary rash. It is apt to 
be complicated with a membranous deposit in the throat having the 
character I have already described to you when speaking of the rem- 
edy in diphtheria. The cellular tissue of the throat is inflamed and 
threatens suppuration. The cervical glands are swollen. On looking 
into the throat you find it to be dark red with a dirty white deposit on 
the tonsils, especially the left. The tongue is coated dirty yellow at 
the base, and the red papillae show prominently through this coating. 
The pulse is weak and the surface of the body cool. There is apt to 
be dark blood oozing from the mouth and nose. 

The majority of physicians make a mistake in beginning their treat- 
ment of scarlatina. A mistake in the beginning means one of two- 



THE OPHIDIA. 71 

things, either a long, tedious illness, or a short one, ending with death. 
The mistake made is to give Belladonna in every case. Let us look for a 
moment at the differences between Belladonna and Lachesis. Both 
remedies have the strawberry tongue, the throbbing headache, the red 
face and the high fever. Belladonna is indicated only in the sthenic 
type when there is an active delirium, the throat is bright red in color, 
the pulse is full and bounding, the rash is bright red and smooth. 
Lachesis on the other hand, is suitable where asthenia predominates, 
with purplish, tardily-appearing rash, drowsiness, marked swelling of 
the cervical glands, and other symptoms of malignancy above enu- 
merated . 

In carbuncle and cancer we think of Lachesis when the surrounding 
area is swollen and purple or blackish, and pus forms very slowly. 
Lachesis given under these circumstances increases the quantity and 
improves the quality of the pus, and the patient's strength improves 
also. 

When giving Lachesis for malignant pustule you should accompany 
the remedy with brandy. That is an experience of Dr. Dunham. 

I will next say a few words respecting the modalities of Lachesis- 
Modalities, as you know, express the mode or manner by which symp- 
toms are qualified. They are therefore important in the study of 
drugs and especially in differentiating allied remedies. Two medi- 
cines, for instance, may induce supraorbital pains of a shooting char- 
acter. But if one has the pains modified by pressure, the other by 
sleep, we are thus enabled to distinguish them in practice. Modalities, 
then, qualify symptoms and are as essential as adjectives to nouns. 
Care must be exercised, however, that they be not substituted for the 
symptoms they modify. Too often we see cases reported, the only 
homoeopathic resemblance between which and the remed}^ selected is a 
mere modality, as, for instance, worse after sleep. 

The modalities of Lachesis, then, are as follows: 

Worse. — During sleep, especially the throat symptoms, choking, 
which arouses him; worse after sleep, especially in the morning. 

Time of Day. — Generally worse from noon until 12 p. m. ; still there 
are some prominent symptoms aggravated in the morning and fore- 
noon. This is partly owing to the bad effects of awaking, but, as 
some symptoms appear later in the morning, we may ascribe them to 
causes then at work. For instance, the patient has vertigo on awak- 
ing, yet this returns, on closing the eyes, at 11 a.m. Headache in 



72 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

the left frontal eminence in the morning. Weakness in the morning 
on rising. Finger tips numb. On sitting up quickly in the morning, 
breathing becomes slow, difficult and whistling. 

In the evening and before 12 p. m., we find the following 
especial exacerbations: Throat sensitive; diarrhoea; dry, hacking 
cough. Chill beginning some time between noon and 2 p. m., but 
fever is marked in the evening and night; worse before 12 p. m. 

Temperature, Weather, etc. — Worse in the cold air, from change of 
temperature and from the warmth of the bed (see below under Motion, 
etc.); worse from getting wet, wet weather, windy weather; worse 
before a thunderstorm; worse from the sun; worse in the spring. Better 
often from warmth, wrapping up, near the stove, etc. Excessively 
cold or excessively warm weather causes debility. 

Motion, Rest, Position, etc. — Worse on and after rising from bed; 
worse while sitting and better after rising from a seat; better lying in 
bed on the painless side, but worse from the warmth of the bed (see 
above under Temperature) and from lying on the painful side. Some 
symptoms are better from moving, but not if continued long. 

Touch, Pressure, Injuries, etc.— Almost invariably worse from touch, 
however slight. Useful for the bad effects of injuries, as penetrating 
wounds, with much haemorrhage or gangrene. 



LECTURE VI. 

ARACHNIDA. 

Of the Arachnida or spider-poisons used in medicine I shall call your 
attention to the following: 

1. Mygale lasiodora. 

2. Lycosa tarentula. 

3. Tarentula Cubensis. 

4. Aranea diadema. 

5. Aranea scinencia. 

6. Theridion curassavicum. 

The action of the drugs in this group is a two-fold one; they all 
poison the blood, and they all act prominently on the nervous system, 
producing spasmodic diseases, as chorea and hysteria. Among other 
nervous symptoms produced by them are anxiety, trembling, great 
restlessness, oversensitiveness and nervous prostration; periodicity. 

The system is profoundly affected by spider-poisons; hence, they 
may be used in serious and chronic ailments. 

Taking up the study of these drugs seriatim, we come first to the 
Mygale lasiodora. 

Mygale lasiodora. 

The Mygale lasiodora is a large black spider, native to the island of 
Cuba. It was first proved by Dr. J. C. Houard, of this city. It is one 
of our best remedies for uncomplicated cases of chorea. The patient is 
apt to be low-spirited and depressed. She complains of dull pain in 
the forehead. She has constant twitchings of the muscles of the face. 
The head is often jerked to one side, usually to the right. There are 
also twitchings and jerkings of the muscles of one arm and leg, usu- 
ally the right. Control over the muscles is lost. On attempting to 
put the hand up to the head it is violently jerked backward. When 
an effort to talk is made the words are jerked out. 

I can recall one case of chorea in which, under the use of this rem- 
edy, the convulsive symptoms were speed \Xy removed, and the patient, 



74 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

a little girl, remained well for years. Dr. Houard, to whom I just re- 
ferred as having proved this drug, has given me the following symp- 
toms indicating its use. The muscles of the face twitch, the mouth 
and eyes open and close in rapid succession; cannot put the hand to 
the face, it is arrested midway and jerked down. Gait unsteady; legs 
i.n motion while sitting and dragged while attempting to talk; constant 
motion of the whole body. 

The most similar remedy to My gale in chorea is Agaricus* which 
also has these angular choreic movements. But as a distinctive symp- 
tom we have itching of the eyelids or of different parts of the body, as 
if they had been frost-bitten. The eyelids are in constant motion. 
The spine is sensitive to touch. 

Actea racemosa is to be employed in chorea when the movements af- 
fect chiefly the left side, and when the disease is associated with my- 
algia or rheumatic ailments, or occurs reflexly as a result of uterine 
displacements. 

Tarenttda is indicated in chorea affecting the right arm and right 
leg. The movements persist even at night. 

Ignatia is called for in chorea of emotional origin. 

Zizia may be used in cases in which the choreic movements continue 
during sleep. 

The Stramonium chorea is characterized by the following symptoms. 
Features continually changing; now he laughs and now appears aston- 
ished; tongue protruded rapidly; head thrown alternately backward 
and forward; spasmodic twitching of the spine and whole body; the 
extremities are in constant motion, though not always jerked, for 
sometimes their motion is rotary, gyratory, even graceful. The mus- 
cles of the whole body are in constant motion. There may be stam- 
mering. If the mind is affected, the patient is easily frightened; he 
awakes from sleep terrified; or he often assumes an attitude of prayer, 
with fervent expression and clasped hands. He frequently lifts his 
head from the pillow. 

*By a very ingenious selection of Agaricushy Dr. Korndcerfer, in the case of a 
two-year old child, who had evident meningitis, and who was not relieved by Apis, 
Sulphur, etc., the rolling of the head ceased, alarming forewarning of imbecility 
happily vanished, and the patient fully recovered. I used the drug in a case of 
.typhoid, in which the child rolled her head and bit her nightgown. Some im- 
provement followed. Tarentula was then given, with slight aggravation, fol- 
lowed by lasting improvement. The two should be remembered in impending 
imbecility. — E. A. F. 



ARACHNID A. 75 

Returning now to Mygale, I give you the following symptoms in 
addition to those already described: Delirious talk about business; 
restlessness all night; fear of death; despondency, with anxious ex- 
pression; nausea, with strong palpitation of the heart, dimness of 
sight, general weakness; tremulousness of the whole body in the even- 
ing; severe chill, thirty minutes, then fever, with trembling; pain in 
the head in the morning, worse in the eyes and from temple to temple. 

My gale, after having been given to a boy for some time, produced, 
during the spasmodic symptoms, violent erections of the penis. The 
penis, when erect, was curved, not straight, and consequently the pa- 
tient suffered great pain. Dr. Williamson, by whom this observation 
was made, was then led to a successful use of the remedy in chordee. 
He used it in a low potency, but it has since been used high w 7 ith equal 
success. 

IyYCOSA TARENTULA. 

In poisoning by the bite of the Tarentula, the symptoms are strik- 
ingly similar to those of the Ophidia. The bitten part becomes 
swollen and discolored, and the lymphatic glands are enlarged. By 
conveyance of the poison to the neck the cellular tissue there is af- 
fected, giving rise to swelling of a dark red or purplish hue. Chok- 
ing seems imminent, when epistaxis, with discharge of dark clots, ap- 
pears and relieves the symptoms. Evidence of cerebral congestion is 
given by the violently throbbing carotid arteries. But with all these 
symptoms there is a pale, earthy hue to the face. The fauces ap- 
pear swollen and purplish, and there is a difficulty of swallowing 
which is of paralytic origin. The patient has burning thirst for large 
draughts of water. The stools are dark and foetid, and the urine 
scant} 7 and voided with difficulty. Thus far, there is but little to aid 
us in distinguishing this condition from a Lachesis case. But there 
are other symptoms — nervous phenomena — which typify the drug. 
Nervous symptoms are present in all the spider-poisons, but Tarentula 
applies, more than other members of the group, to hysteria. There is 
marked spinal irritation, and what I have found to be very character- 
istic is great excitability of the terminations of the nerves. The pa- 
tient keeps the hands in constant motion, trying to work off this over- 
excitability. The playing of a lively piece of music excites her and 
starts her to acting like one crazy. When there are no observers she 
has no hysterical attacks. As soon as attention is directed to her she 



76 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

begins to twitch, etc. When she has headache it is better from rub- 
bing the head against the pillow. Rubbing seems to relieve. 

Tarentala acts on the uterus and ovaries. It is palliative in enlarge- 
ment of these organs. There is pain in the uterine region associated 
with constrictive headache. There is also burning pain in the hypo- 
gastrium and hips, with sensation as of a great weight in the pelvis. 
The menses are profuse and are followed by pruritus vulvae. The pa- 
tient feels sore and bruised all over, particularly when moving about. 
She longs for sleep, but is so nervous that she cannot sleep. 

Now let us study for a moment the concordant remedies of Taren- 
tula, taking up first Kali bromatum. We have no remedy in the Ma- 
teria Medica which has so many reflex symptoms as Kali bromatum. 
Any little irritation, such, as dentition or indigestion in children, may 
bring on convulsions. The symptom, however, which I wish particu- 
larly to emphasize is peripheral irritation, with relief from motion or 
using the part affected. 

Crocus deserves mention because of the hysterical state it is capable 
of exciting, together with choreic symptoms. It causes jumping, 
dancing, laughing, desire to kiss everybody, contractions of single 
groups of muscles. She is angry, and then suddenly repents; or 
angry and talkative, laughing alternately. As in Tarentula, music 
affects her. Hearing one sing, she begins involuntarily to join in; 
but there is not the subsequent relief from music which is noticed in 
the spider-poison. 

Actea racemosa resembles the spiders in producing sleeplessness, rest- 
lessness, trembling and fear of death; and, too, these evidences of 
nervousness are often, in Actea as in Tarentula, reflex from uterine 
affections. The former has, after going to bed, jerking, commencing 
on the side on which she is lying, compelling change of position, nerv- 
ous shuddering and nervous chills. Mentally the two drugs differ. 
Actea causes nervousness; she feels as if the top of the head would fly 
off; delirium with jumping from subject to subject; sees strange ob- 
jects; great apprehensiveness, as a concomitant of uterine irritation; 
pains darting into the eye-ball, through to the occiput. Feels grieved, 
troubled, with sighing; next day, tremulous joy, mirth and playful- 
ness. 

This head symptom of Actea is not quite the same as that of The- 
ridion, under which remedy the patient's head feels as if she could lift 
it off. 



ARACHNIDA. 77 

Hyoscyanius is useful in well-marked local jerkings and twitehings 
of groups of muscles. The patient is sleepless and nervous, or sobs 
and cries in sleep. The head falls from side to side. She laughs at 
everything in a silly manner. Stuttering. Mental excitement; talka- 
tiveness; she is nervous, suspicious, troublesome, but not maniacal. 

Causticum bears some resemblance in causing restless moving at 
night; she can find no quiet position. Intolerable uneasiness in the 
limbs in the evening. Anxiety and timidity in the evening. Trem- 
bling. Uneasy at night; she awakes from a short sleep with anxiety, 
which scarcely allows her to remain in one place ten minutes; she is 
obliged to turn her head involuntarily from one side to the other, 
until, exhausted, she falls asleep. During sleep frequent motions with 
her arms and legs. She jerks, mostly the right side of the body. Con- 
vulsive motions of mouth and eyes, with sleeplessness and restlessness, 
after repercussed eruptions. It is especially suited to rheumatic pa- 
tients, or to those who suffer from paretic affections, especially of one 
side of the face or of the tongue; the mouth, in consequence, is dis- 
torted. 

Belladonna produces a bodily inquietude, as in chorea. The patient 
is obliged to move to and fro, especially to move the hands and feet; 
he cannot stay long in any position. The predominant jerking is back- 
wards, although this may alternate with a forward bending. There is 
a boring of the head into the pillow, not mere rubbing against the pil- 
low as in Tarentula. Bellado7ina also has constrictions, hyperaesthesia, 
mania, with laughing, dancing, wild crying, etc. But it is distin- 
guished by the intensity of its symptoms; there are violent conges- 
tions throbbing of the carotids, wild look, dilated pupils and injected 
eyes. 

In hysterical states Ignatia, though agreeing in many respects with 
Tarentula, has a w 7 ell-defined individuality of its own. The nervous 
system is over-impressionable, incoordinate in function and contradic- 
tory in action. The patient is extremely susceptible to emotional in- 
fluences. Fear and grief affect her seriously; the least contradiction 
offends; she is readily chagrined, and is thus often reduced to grief and 
tears by the slightest causes. Her mental states, however, are not 
usually exhibited in violence and rage. On the contrary, she nurses 
her troubles in seclusion and silence, and broods over them until they 
prey upon her whole system. She thus grows more and more nerv- 
ous, and, at the same time, more and more weakened. The heart 



78 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

beats nervously, with variable pulse; she frequently sighs heavily and 
deeply; suffers from goneness at the stomach, with qualmishness and 
flat taste in the mouth; feeling of a lump in the throat, swelling sym- 
pathetically with the intensity of her mental disturbances. Sleepless- 
ness or violent startings of the limbs. Grief, fright, disappointed love 
or some other similar cause may develop hysterical or choreic parox- 
ysms. The moods change with wonderful rapidity; now she laughs 
and jokes, then, quickly, she bursts into tears. Her manner becomes 
hurried, so that everything is performed hastily, and hence imper- 
fectly and awkwardly. She is afflicted with intense headaches. These 
are characterized by the predominance of a sensation of pressure; the 
pain goes to the eye, which feels as if pressed out, or to the root of 
the nose, or, again, it is confined to one small spot, like a nail press- 
ing; hence the name, clavus hystericus. At the height of the parox- 
ysm she becomes restless and chilly, and often describes a peculiar per- 
version of vision; she sees fiery zigzags when looking out of the line of 
vision (see Theridio?i} . Finally, a profuse flow of colorless urine ter- 
minates the attack. 

While, then, both remedies induce sadness, indifference, profound 
melancholy and hysterical states, only Ignatia has the introverted state 
of mind; only Tarentula, the cunning attempts to feign paroxysms and 
wild dancing. 

Platina should not be confounded with the spider-poisons here, be- 
cause ii develops a different form of hysteria. True, there are present 
deranged coordination of functions, anxiety, trembling, fear of death, 
which seems to the patient to be imminent; also alternation of depres- 
sion with gayety and laughter; sexual excitement and convulsions. 
But the patient assumes a hauteur, a self-exaltation, which is foreign 
to the other drugs considered. Her mental disturbances develop into 
a condition of self-esteem, during which she looks disdainfully down 
on all around her. Her paroxysms of laughter are not only loud and 
boisterous, but ill-timed, occurring even under circumstances of a sad 
nature. The headaches are of constrictive character, as in Tare?itula y 
but there is, in addition, a squeezing, cramplike pain, with numbness, 
and the pains gradually increase and as gradually decrease. 

Indurated uterus belongs to the symptoms of both remedies. 

Palladium is readily distinguished by its unique mental phenomena. 
The patient is not haughty, but she is irritable, and is, unfortunately, 
given to strong and violent language. Music, society or animated 



ARACHNIDA. 79 

conversation excites her and produces pains in the right ovary; the 
following day she feels correspondingly exhausted. Her egotism is 
displayed in a fondness for the good opinion of others, hence she is 
continually being "slighted." The uterine symptoms are character- 
ized by a weakness, as if the womb were sinking; an empty feeling in 
the groins, as if eviscerated. 

Moschus repeats the scolding of Palladium, but the patient keeps it 
up until her lips turn blue, her eyes stare and she falls to the floor in 
a swoon. She suffers from sudden suffocation from closure of the 
glottis or cramp of the chest. She also has faint spells: palpitation; 
tremulousness of the whole body; coldness of the body; hysterical 
headache, with fainting spells; copious pale urine; fear of death, like 
Platina and Tarentula, but with pale face and fainting; she talks only 
of approaching death. Vertigo, nausea, dim vision. Vertigo, objects 
turn in a circle. (Musk relieves when Theridion produces vertigo; 
worse when the eyes are closed.) Headache, as from a weight press- 
ing here or there on the head. An oft-observed symptom with the 
nervous is fidgetiness of the legs, at times preventing sleep. In addi- 
tion to Tarentula the following remedies may be studied in this relation: 

Zincum induces moving of the feet for hours after retiring; even 
continuing in sleep. 

Asafcetida has several times relieved restlessness, as has also Ammon- 
ium carb.; Adea racemosa has already been mentioned. 

Arsenicum, so useful in stubborn cases of chorea, has the following: 
Uneasiness in the legs, must change the position of his feet all the 
time or walk about for relief. 

Mephitis has relieved uneasiness in the legs, as if they would become 
insensible. 

Sticta pulmonaria has produced a sensation as though the legs were 
floating in the air. One prover became so lively that she lay down on 
a lounge and began to kick, exclaiming that she felt as if she wanted 
to fly away. This excitability reminds us of the desire to jump which 
Tarentula causes. (Compare Stramonium, Agaricus, Cicuta, Hyoscy- 
amus, Crocus and Natrum mur., which latter has jumping high up, 
regardless of near objects.) 

Asaruvi induces a feeling as if the body were hovering in the air; it 
also causes shivering and coldness from any emotion. But it offers no 
essential similarities to Tarentula, though it has some slight resem- 
blance to Theridion, in that noises become intolerable. The distinction 



80 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

is evident. Asarum is so sensitive that a thrill runs through the pa- 
tient on merely thinking of the scratching of silk, which she is contin- 
ually impelled to do. 

Although I have tabulated several drugs as bearing symptomatic 
resemblance to the Spiders, only the following hold any intimate rela- 
tionship: 

Ignatia, Mosckus, Actea racemosa, Agaricus, Stramonium, Bella- 
donna, Magnesia mur. (the latter in uterine cramps). 

Tarentula Cubensis. 

Tarentula Cubensis, the hairy spider, causes a perfect picture of car- 
buncle, even to the sloughing, and claims place as a rival to Arsenicum 
and Carbo veg. It may be used effectually when there are great pros- 
tration and diarrhoea, with intermitting fever of evening exacerbation. 
In relieving the atrocious pains accompanying this condition it acts 
almost like magic. It should, therefore, be compared with Arsenicum, 
and no less with Lachesis, Anthracinum and Silicea. 

Aranea Diadema. 

Aranea was suggested by Grauvogl as one of the remedies for what 
he called the hydrogenoid constitution, this being a constitution which 
could not tolerate moisture. Under Aranea all the symptoms are 
worse during damp weather or from dwelling in damp localities. Es- 
pecially is this true with what we may call chronic intermittent fever, 
for which Aranea is the remedy when the symptoms are aggravated 
during every spell of damp weather. The patient may feel very com- 
fortable on a sunny day, but as soon as it becomes damp he gets sick. 
During this aggravation he complains of chilliness, as if the bones 
were made of ice, bone-pains, followed by little or no fever. The chill 
is apt to be typical, occurring at the same hour every other day, every 
week, or at some regular period. You find also that the spleen is en- 
larged and the patient is subject to haemorrhages. He may or may 
not have been previously treated with quinine. 

Cinchona and Chininum sulphuricum are both very similar to Ara7iea 
diadema in the periodical return of symptoms, and both are indicated 
in cases of swollen spleen, and of ague from living in damp places. 

Cedron, of which it has been asserted that it will relieve the bite of 
the rattlesnake and modify hydrophobia, may also be regarded as an 



ARACHNIDA. 8 1 

analogue of Aranea diadema and of the spider-poisons generally. It 
is said to act best in nervous, excitable and even voluptuous patients, 
especially females. The febrile and neuralgic symptoms return with 
clock-like regularity. It is used in ague contracted in warm countries 
or in low, marshy lands, in which latter respect it offers some similarity 
to Aranea. But the former remedy has won favor mainly in hot cli- 
mates, while the latter works well in chills contracted in cold and wet 
localities. The chill predominates, heat being slight or wanting. In 
Cedron, on the contrary, there is congestion of the head, flying heat in 
the face alternating with chill, and dry heat with full, quick pulse. 

So far as proved, Aranea does not develop the extreme excitation of 
the other three spiders mentioned above. Still there is evidence that 
it affects the nervous system. Confusion of the head and headaches 
lafter eating, relieved by smoking; headache ceases in the open air; 
sudden, violent pains in the upper and lower jaws at night immedi- 
ately after lying down; restless sleep with frequent waking, always 
with sensation as if the hands and forearms were greatly swollen, as if 
they were twice as strong and large as natural, a symptom common to 
remedies that affect the cerebro-spinal nervous system. 

Aranea also cures diarrhoea, and these patients are often troubled 
with this disorder. The stools are watery, and are associated with 
great rumbling in the bowels, as if considerable fermentation were go- 
ing on within. 

The toothache is especially worse in damp weather, and also as soon 
as the patient gets into bed. Here it reminds you of Mercnrius. 

There is a symptom of Aranea which I have not had the opportunity 
of observing in practice, and that is numbness of the parts supplied by 
the ulnar nerve. 

Arayiea also attacks the bones. It is especially indicated in disease 
of the os calcis when the patient complains of violent, dull, boring 
pain in that bone. This ma} 7 be due to a simple periostitis, or it may 
be associated with caries. Sometimes there is a sensation as if the 
bones felt like ice. This is purely subjective. 

Theridion Curassavicum. 

Theridion compares with Tare?itula in headache, nervousness and 
hysteria. According to the provings, there is a similar restless, busy 
state; he desires to occupy himself, though he finds pleasure in noth- 
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82 A CLINIC AL MATERIA MEDICA. 

ing. But there is a strong distinctive characteristic in the sensitive- 
ness to noise. This qualifies the vertigo, headache, and even the gas- 
tric ailments. Vertigo and nausea, worse when the eyes are closed, 
from motion and from noise.* Every sound penetrates the teeth. 
Every penetrating sound and reverberation extends through the whole 
body. Headache worse if others walk over the floor. I have re- 
lieved most intense headache with Theridion when this hypersensitive- 
ness was present, as well as nausea and aggravation from motion. The 
general accompaniments are true spider-effects: Weakness, trembling, 
coldness and anxiety. Hysteria, too, has yielded to Theridion. Time 
passes too quickly; hilarity; talkativeness; feels as if her head did not 
belong to her, as if she could lift it off. Luminous vibrations before 
the eyes. Sensitive to light; if she looks into the light, dark vibra- 
tions are produced; double vision. Faints after every exertion. An- % 
xiety about the heart, with sharp pains through the left chest, or to 
the left shoulder. Bites the point of the tongue during sleep — all with 
weakness, chilliness, or easily excited cold sweat. Nausea and van- 
ishing of thoughts, greatly intensified by closing the eyes. 

Theridion is very similar to Spigelia, which has sharp neuralgic 
pains over the left eye. Under Spigelia, however, the pain comes up 
from the nape of the neck and over the head, settling above 4:he 
left eye. The Spigelia sick headache is very apt to follow the sun, 
beginning in the morning, reaching its acme at noon, and gradually 
subsiding at sunset. The antidote to Theridion when it causes, this 
headache is Moschus. 

Bryonia is at times very similar in headache. I once treated a lady 
suffering from intense headache and nausea that were worse from the 
least motion. Bryonia was given, but failed. However, when the pa- 
tient added the fact that noises made both headache and nausea worse, 
I found the similimum in Theridion. 

In headaches worse from jarring the floor compare Belladomia and 
Sanguinaria. 

Another use you may make of Theridion is in the sea-sickness of 
nervous women. They shut their eyes to get rid of the motion of the 
vessel, and they grow deathly sick. 

The spine is very irritable. We have what is known as spinal irri- 
tation. Examination reveals great sensitiveness between the vertebrae. 

*In vertigo worse closing the eyes compare Lachesis, Apis, Arnica, Piper 
methysticum, Arsenicum, Thuja, Petroleum, Chelidonium, Sepia. 



ARACHNIDA. 83 

So great is this hyperesthesia that the patient sits sideways in a chair 
in order to avoid pressure of the back of the chair against the spine. 

A rather peculiar employment of Theridion, but one which I have 
had occasion to confirm, is its use in phthisis florida. It is claimed 
that the drug tends to stay, and in some cases stop, the rapid prog- 
ress of this fatal affection. One symptom I know is good, violent 
stitches high up in the left chest through to the back. Dr. Baruch 
succeeded in removing this symptom with Theridion after other physi- 
cians had utterly failed. 

Myrtus communis and Pix liquida vie with Theridion in pains in the 
upper left chest. The first has pain through to the shoulder-blade, a 
symptom which it often relieves, even in consumptives. Pix selects a 
spot at the third left costal cartilage, where it joins with the rib. (If 
it fails, consult Anisum stellatum, which affects either side at the third 
rib.) Rales through the lungs and muco-purulent sputum are further 
symptoms of the tar. 

Dr. Baruch has also made use of Theridion in scrofulous diseases of 
bones, particularly after Snlpimr, Calcarea, Lycopodium and the ordi- 
nary remedies have failed. I think that it may even cure ozsena with 
caries, since it attacks the bones and so often removes the j^ellowish 
or yellowish-green, thick and offensive discharge from the nose. 



LECTURE VII. 

CANTHARIS. 

The remedy which I propose to bring before you for study today is 
Cantharis, the so-called Spanish fly. It is my purpose to speak of the 
more important symptoms produced by the drug, comparing it super- 
ficially with a number of others having effects similar to it. First 
of all, for the sake of completeness, let me give you notes on two 
other drugs, the Lytta vittata and the Ca?itharis strygosa. The first of 
these is the potato-fly, not the potato-bug, the pharmacopceial name of 
which is Doryphora. The potato-fly acts much like Caiitharis when 
applied to the skin. It produces first a dermatitis, which is soon fol- 
lowed by the formation of vesicles. The affected parts become red, 
almost erysipelatous in appearance. The vesicles finally rupture, leav- 
ing an ulcerated surface. Finally, death of the part may ensue. 

The Cantharis strygosa is a species of Cantharis, which infests the 
cotton plant. This, too, has vesication for its characteristic. 

There are other varieties of this Cantharis among which are the C. 
cinerea, C. marginata, C. atrata, C. nutalli and Mycabis cichorii et 
Phalateria, these last two being imported from China. 

Cantharis, or Spanish fly, has long been used by allopaths as a 
counter-irritant; when applied to any part of the surface of the body 
it excites a violent inflammation. This inflammation begins, of course, 
with erythema, rapidly advancing to vesication. The blisters thus 
formed are filled with a yellowish-white serum. As the inflammation 
progresses they enlarge, and their contents assume a purulent char- 
acter. Finally, death of the part ensues, presuming, of course, that 
the application is continued long enough. At other times 4arge 
blisters, termed bullae, may form.. These are sometimes as large as a 
silver half-dollar. They are raised above the surface, and are filled 
with a fluid which is excoriating. This irritating property of Cantharis 
is the founalatio?i- stone of the whole provi?ig . The pains incident to this 
kind of inflammation are, of course, very severe. They are of a burn- 
ing character. At times, when the nerves seem to be implicated in 
the inflammatory process, there will be sharp lancinating pains along 
their course. 



CANTHARIS. 85 

But Cantharis is not the only drug that has these highly irritating 
effects when applied to the skin or taken internally. 

Thus, from external use the following will, sooner or later, cause 
vesicles to develop on the skin: Varieties of Ca?itharis, Formica; vari- 
eties of Rhus, Anacardium orientate et occidentale; Ranunculous plants, 
as Clematis, Ranunculus bulb., Ranunculus sceleratus , Pulsatilla, Aconite, 
Caltha, Helleborus, Actea spic ; Araceae, especially Arum mac, Arum 
tri., Palladium, Pix, Terebinthina, Thuja, Nux juglans, Chininum 
sulph.; several species of Plumbago, Allium sat.; Buphorbious plants, 
particularly Croton tig., Hura, Euphorbia corol., Euphorbium offic, 
Ma?ici?iella, Sinapis, Piper nigrum , Capsicum, Mezereum, Thapsia gar- 
ganica, Chloral, Cotura matura, Drosera, Podophyllum, Chimaphila, 
Oleander, Chelidonium, Cochlear ia arm., Veratrum album, Camphor, 
Picric acid, Ammonium causticum, Calcarea caustica, Sulphur, Sulphuric 
acid, Kali hydro sulphuricum , Nitric acid; Arsenic preparations, Car- 
bolic acid, Mercury, Cuprum arsenicosum, Antimo?iiu?n tart., etc. 

Rhus tox. and Anacardium cause vesication, with much redness of 
the skin and infiltration. The latter adds loss of appetite and other 
gastric symptoms as essential concomitants. The former causes red 
skin and numerous vesicles, surrounded with a red rim from infiltra- 
tion. A well-defined advance-line of inflammation marks the progress 
of the disease. The predominant sensations are itching or tingling, 
while in Caiitharis burning and smarting, as from salt, are leading 
sensations. The latter, in some cases, when topically employed, in- 
duces an eczematous eruption around the plaster, and in others the 
vesicated surface assumes a soft, pultaceous, almost gangrenous ap- 
pearance; but the skin is not the reddish-brown of Rhus. 

Croton tiglium gives rise to myriads of small, terribly-itching vesicles 
on a red base. When the genitals are attacked there is pain on uri- 
nating, and some of the blisters become large, others break, leaving a 
red, moist surface. The vesicles may develop into pustules, which 
finally break and form grayish crusts. 

Hura Brasiliensis, a near relative of the former, also produces red 
vesicles. Both of these remedies cause a tension of the skin, a hide- 
bound feeling, which is best confirmed in Croto?i; but Hura carries 
this feature into its vesication, for the blisters become so tense that, on 
opening, their serous contents fairly burst forth. A characteristic of 
this remedy is a sensation as of a splinter under the thumb-nails. The 
eruption prefers projecting portions of bone, as the skin over the malar 
bones. 



86 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Formica, locally applied, sets up inflammatory redness, with itching 
and burning, slight exudation and desquamation. The urine is albu- 
minous and bloody, and there is much urging to urinate. 

Clematis crispa is food for the Spanish fly. The Clematis ereda we 
know irritates the skin to the production of burning vesicles, which 
pustulate and discharge a yellowish corrosive ichor. The urine is 
discharged in drops, or intermittingly, from a narrowed urethra. 

Ranunculus bulbosus and Ranunculus sceleraius act similarly. In the 
former the vesicles may become blue-black, or they may discharge a 
secretion which becomes horny. The latter raises blisters, which leave 
a raw surface with acrid discharge, and resembles Cantharis in pem- 
phigus. In blueness Ranunculus bulbosus rather resembles Lachesis; 
the latter causes deep-seated bluish blisters (which appear after 
scratching). In horny crusts it resembles Antimonium crudum. 

The several species of Spurge have caused vesication, and the variety 
called Euphorbium officinarum has been employed in vesicular erysip- 
elas; red cheeks, covered with yellow vesicles as large as peas (from 
an application of the juice); violent fever. Like Hura, this plant and 
the Euphorbium cyparissias have an affinity for the malar region. 
Cantharis attacks the surface of the nose (like Graphites). Euphorbia 
peplus also attacks the nose, as well as the cheeks. 

Ma?icinella is so irritating that even the water dropping on the skin 
from the leaves may raise blisters, but the accompanying erythema far 
exceeds that of Cantharis. It resembles the blush of scarlatina, and 
has been used in that disease. 

Thapsia garganica, an umbelliferous plant, closely resembles Croton* 
It causes more pustules, however, and these fill rapidly with pus. 

Mezereum develops numerous small vesicles, with intolerable itching; 
but the secretion quickly forms into thick, high scabs, from beneath 
which an acrid pus oozes. 

Capsicum, Camphor, Terebi?ithina, Fix and Piper nigriim vesicate 
very slowly. Several of them are used rather as rubefacients. The 
first may be distinguished by the fact that the blisters appear on sur- 
faces which have been wet with sweat, and the sensation is a pungent 
burning, while in the fly it is a smarting burning, as from salt. 

Camphor, topically, causes an erysipelatous dermatitis, with bright 
redness, and, eventually, blisters (from concentrated solution). We 
generally think of it when there has been a retrocession of skin dis- 
ease, with its well-known symptoms of collapse and convulsions. 



CANTHARIS. 87 

Pix and Terebinthiyia cause violent itching, especially the former. 
The skin becomes cracked under Pix, with sleeplessness and bleeding 
when scratched. 

Potash preparations favor more a papular than a vesicular eruption, 
the latter form being intermediate between the papule and the pustule- 
Kali hydro sulphur icum and Kali nitricum develop papular vesicles 
when locally applied. Kali bromatum causes vesicles about the hair 
follicles (from internal use). Kali bichromicum induces an eruption, 
which presents vesicles with a depressed centre; they suppurate, and 
on healing leave a cicatrix. Kali hydriodicum causes papular vesicles 
(from internal use), the resulting vesico-pustules contain minute quan- 
tities of Iodine. None of these, therefore, resemble the superficial 
blister of the fly. 

Chloral is capable of producing several forms of eruption. Its vesi- 
cles are surrounded with a marked capillary hyperaemia. 

Chininum sulphuricum has caused an erythematous appearance 
strongly resembling scarlet fever, but it also forms confluent vesicles, 
which ulcerate or dry into crusts. Pemphigus, also, may appear. 

In pemphigus Cantharis compares with Causticum, Rhus tox. , Ranun- 
culus sceleratus , etc. The following have induced this form of eruption, 
and deserve a trial: Caltha, Nitric acid, Copaiva, Sulphuric acid, Chin- 
inum sulphuricum, Carboneum oxygenisatum. 

In Caltha the bullae are surrounded by a ring and itch a great deal. 
On the third day they are transformed into crusts. 

Copaiva affects mucous membranes, then the stomach and bowels, 
and later the skin. A red, miliary rash forms on a red base; urticaria, 
pemphigus, with excessive offensive discharge. 

Carboneum oxyge?i. is prone to excite vesication along the course of 
nerves (sciatic, trigeminus, etc.), and hence resembles herpes zoster, a 
disease which Cantharis has occasionally cured. It also causes "large 
and small vesicles of pemphigus." 

Cantharis has a most remarkable affinity for the urinary organs; in 
fact, experience has. demonstrated that nearly always when it is indi- 
cated C3^stic or renal symptoms are present. Marked symptoms of the 
kidneys and bladder may result even from the use of the drug exter- 
nally. The same is true when the drug is taken internally. Let us 
now look at some of its symptoms. We find dull pressive pains in the 
region of the kidneys. At other times violent cutting, burning pains 
extend from the kidneys down either ureter to the bladder. The parts 



88 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

extern ally over the region of the kidneys are very sensitive to touch. 
There is persistent and violent urging to urinate. Often, too, these 
cutting pains extend along the spermatic cords to the testicles and down 
the penis, attended by drawing up of the testicles. At other times 
there is pain in the glans penis, exhibited in children by frequent pull- 
ing at the organ. This pain in the glans penis may not be of an acute 
nature, but may be simply an uneasy, uncomfortable sensation. When 
in children you notice this symptom Cantharis is generally indicated; 
at other times you may think also of Mercurius solubilis; of course, the 
symptom may be a habit which the child has been allowed to practice. 
That, of course, does not call for these remedies. 

Coming to the bladder itself, we find here, too, extreme superficial 
sensitiveness over the hypogastrium (especially when the bladder is 
distended with urine), and almost unbearable tenesmus vesicae. Some- 
times the patient will have the desire to urinate every two or three 
minutes. The urine does not pass freely or copiously, but dribbles 
away in hot, scalding, sometimes bloody, drops, with burning, cutting 
pains which could not be worse if the urine were molten lead. This 
burning and urging continue after urination, so that the poor sufferer 
is really in constant torture. Exacerbations come on every few min- 
utes as calls to urinate become too urgent to resist. The urine 
itself shows changes in its composition. Blood is more or less thor- 
oughly mixed with it, according to the part of the urinary tract from 
which the haemorrhage proceeds. The urine, however, is of a deep 
red color, independently of its containing blood, and deposits a sedi- 
ment of mucus. Fibrinous casts, epithelial cells, small rolled-up mem- 
branous pieces of the lining of the parts through which it passes — the 
tubules of the kidney, the ureters and the bladder — are observed under 
the microscope. 

This is the picture of the effects of Cantharis as they attain their 
maximum. From these extreme symptoms you have all grades of 
severity down to the slightest irritation at the neck of the bladder, 
with aggravation after micturition. 

Now these symptoms characterize Cantharis, and indicate it in a 
variety of affections. You would expect it to be of use in inflamma- 
tion of the kidneys, particularly in acute inflammation of one or the 
other of these organs rather than in chronic Bright' s disease. 

We find, too, that Cantharis is a valuable remedy in the passage of 
renal calculi, especially when the pains are very violent. It has been 



CANTHARIS. 89 

stated in controversy that it was nonsense to talk about relieving the 
pains from the passage of renal calculi b}^ homoeopathic medication. 
The ureter is a narrow tube and the stone is frequently large, and it is 
said that this cannot be passed without pain. This is a mistake. The 
indicated remedy maj r so lessen local irritabilit} 7 that the pain attend- 
ant on the passage of the renal calculi may be greatly modified. 

Often you find Cantharis indicated in gravel in children when they 
have this irritation extending down the penis, with almost constant 
pulling at that organ. 

Cantharis you will find indicated in acute cystitis more frequently 
than all other remedies put together. 

It is also indicated in hematuria of inflammatory origin. 

It also has a secondary action in producing retention of urine, an 
effect due to the severity of the preexisting symptoms. 

In gonorrhoea Cantharis is indicated when there is most intense irrita- 
tion; not a simple discharge with the necessary burning and smarting, 
but with violent and painful chordee, marked sexual erethism and dis- 
charge that is purulent or bloody. It is also indicated in cases in 
which the disorder has been suppressed by the use of injections and 
the disease involves the neck of the bladder. 

Now, a word as to related remedies. 

Cannabis sativa is very similar to Cantharis in its urethral phenom- 
ena. It has the same yellow, purulent discharge from the urethra, 
but is more important when the discharge is thin, and there is smart- 
ing and burning on urination. There seems to be more burning and 
smarting under Cannabis, while there is more tenesmus and cutting 
under Cantharis. The glans penis is dark red and swollen. Chordee 
may be present Cannabis sativa may be indicated in simple acute 
nephritis, but it is not likely to be of much use in Bright' s disease of 
the kidneys. It has, however, drawing pain in the region of the kid- 
neys, extending into the inguinal glands, with anxious nauseous sen- 
sation in the epigastrium. 

Cannabis Indica is much used in Asiatic countries. It produces the 
most wonderful mental phenomena, far exceeding Opium in its effects. 
The two central points of the mental phenomena of this Cannabis 
Indica are delusions as to distance and as to time. Time and space 
seem to be greatly extended. For example, the patient tells you that 
he is hungry, that he has eaten nothing for six months, when the 
dishes from which he has just partaken are yet by his bedside; or, on 



90 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

looking out of the window he tells you that objects but a few feet off 
are maii}^ yards distant. But it is the urinary symptoms of Cannabis 
Indica that concern us more particularly just now. It is very similar 
to Cantharis, and is said to be even superior to that drug for gonor- 
rhoea when the chordee is well marked. In renal disease Cannabis is 
indicated by burning, stitches, aching in the kidneys, pains when 
laughing; also when uraemia sets in attended by severe headache, 
with a sensation as if the vertex were opening and shutting. If delir- 
ium appears, it is associated with the delusions respecting time and 
space just mentioned. 

Equisetum hyemale is a plant growing in water. It contains a large 
quantity of silicic acid. It acts very similarly to Cantharis on the kid- 
neys and bladder. There are, however, less escape of blood and less 
tenesmus vesicae than may be found under Cantharis. The urine is 
less scalding and does not contain so many fibrinous flakes. Cantharis 
is not called for so often as Equisetum when there is an excess of 
mucus in the urine. The bladder is tender and sore, with severe dull 
pain, which is worse after urination. There is constant desire to uri- 
nate, sometimes with a feeling of distension in the bladder and with 
profuse urination. During urination a burning pain is felt in the ure- 
thra. Equisetum has won most favor in enuresis. It has proved cur- 
ative in these cases even when vesical irritation is marked, especially 
in women, and the urine contains blood and albumen. 

Linaria is another drug which has produced and cured enuresis with 
frequent painful urging to urinate, causing the patient to rise at night. 

Eupatorium purpureum is similar to Equisetu?n in vesical irritability 
of women, for which condition it was used by Dr. Richard Hughes, of 
England. It causes frequent and painful urging with either excessive 
or scanty flow of high-colored urine containing mucus. 

Petroselinum, one variety of the parsley, is indicated by frequent 
sudden and irresistible urging to urinate. In the case of a child, he 
will be suddenly seized with the desire to urinate; if he cannot be 
gratified immediately, he will jump up and down with pain. You will 
find Petroselinum useful in gonorrhoea with this sudden urging and 
strangury. Camiabis, Cantharis and Mercurius all have the sudden 
urging to urinate, but it is strongest under Petroselinum. 

Clematis erecta is to be selected when there is mucus in the urine, 
but not pus; when the urine flows by fits and starts, or the patient has 
to wait a long time for the urine to come, and then passes only a few 



CANTHARIS. 91 

drops, with intense biting and burning along the urethra, followed by 
a full, painless stream. Clematis is to be thought of in "first cases'' 
of gonorrhoea when the inflammation develops stricture. 

Co7iium is useful in urethral and bladder diseases when there is pus 
in the urine; otherwise it is like Clematis. It has "passage of the 
urine by fits and starts," cutting in the urethra after micturition, 
urine flows more readily while standing ( Sarsaparilla) . 

Doryphora is indicated in urethritis in children under ten years of 
age when the trouble has been provoked b}' local irritation. In these 
cases think also of Hyoscyamus. 

Capsicum is sometimes useful in gonorrhoea, especially in fat persons 
of lax fibre and of rather indolent disposition. The discharge is of a 
thick yellow character. The patient complains of fine stinging pains 
in the meatus urinarius and of stitches in the urethra between the acts 
of micturition. 

Copaiva and Cubeba have been so abused by allopaths that I think 
we are too apt to neglect them. Copaiva causes a urethritis with burn- 
ing at the neck of the bladder and in the urethra. The discharge is 
of a milky color and of corrosive character. The meatus urinarius is 
tumid and inflamed and sore as if wounded. 

Cubeba causes cutting and constriction after micturition. The dis- 
charge is of a mucous nature. Both Copaiva and Cubeba are useful in 
the irritation attending thickening of the lining membrane of the blad- 
der. Neither remedy has so violent. an action as has Cantharis. 

Thuja gives us symptoms of continued or oft-repeated gonorrhoea. 
The patient has continued desire to urinate. The urging is violent, 
3 r et he passes only a few drops of bloody urine at a time; or, if these 
do not pass, there is intense itching. The urethral discharge is thin 
and green. Warty excrescences appear on the genitals and about the 
anus. At night there are painful erections which drive away sleep. 
In Cantharis the erections prevent urination; this is not the case in 
Thuja. 

Argentum nitricum follows Cannabis in gonorrhoea when the dis- 
charge becomes purulent and the urethra feels sore and swollen. 

Mercurius sol u bills and corrosivus follow when the discharge becomes 
worse at night and is green and purulent. The corrosive mercur} T 
causes the more violent tenesmus, burning and swelling, hence it is 
very similar to Cantharis. The meatus urinarius is very red. Mer- 
curius solubilis has more burning between micturition than has Can- 
tharis. 



92 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Chimaphila has been found useful in catarrh of the bladder caused 
by stones. It produces frequent urination at night with increased de- 
bility and smarting pain extending from the neck of the bladder to the 
end of the urethra. 

In irritation of the neck of the bladder you may use a number of 
remedies, some of which I shall mention: 

Erigeron, with or without bloody urine. 

Pulsatilla is indicated when micturition is followed by cutting pains 
and there are pressure and soreness over the pubes. 

Under Ferrum phos. the symptoms are worse the longer the patient 
stands, and better after urination. 

Epigea, Apis and Copaiva should also be studied in this connection, 
the latter especially in old women. 

Capsicum has spasmodic contracting and cutting in the neck of the 
bladder; Mercurius aceliacs, cutting just at the close of urination, like 
Natrum mur. 

The Digitalis patient finds relief on lying down, as that position 
relieves much of the pressure upon the neck of the bladder. 

Sulphur comes in to remove the remnants of a gonorrhoea. 

Ipomea nil^ which is one variety of the morning-glory, was a remedy 
used by the late Dr. Jacob Jeanes for the passage of stone from the 
kidney to the bladder when he had the following symptoms present: 
Severe cutting pain in either renal region, extending down the ureter 
on the corresponding side. The distinctive feature which separates it 
from other remedies is that these pains excite nausea. 

Hydrangea has also been used for the intense pain attending gravel 
and calculus. 

Sarsaparilla is useful for gravel in children when they scream or cry 
with pain after passing urine; then there is found a grayish sand in 
the diaper. 

Ocimum may be employed in renal colic when there is considerable 
haemorrhage; when the urine not only has a brick-red sediment, as 
under Pareira brava, but contains considerable blood. It favors the 
right side. 

Terebinthina , like Cantkaris, has marked action on the kidneys, but 
it differs from the latter remedy in that the urine is always dark, 
cloudy and smoky, from admixture of blood. This is due to conges- 
tion of the kidneys. 

Cochlearia armor acea, or the horse-radish, is a valuable drug. It 



CANTHARIS. 93 

produces burning and cutting in the glans penis during and after uri- 
nation, with a great deal of strangury. The urine becomes thick like 
jelly on standing. 

Then we have the Uva ursi. This remedy finds no equal when cys- 
tic and urethral symptoms are referable to stone in the bladder. You 
have, as symptomatic of the drug, burning, scalding urination: the 
flow of urine stops suddenly as if a stone had rolled in front of the in- 
ternal orifice of the urethra. When the urine passes it is ropy from 
the admixture of mucus and blood. The drug seems to diminish in- 
flammatory thickening of the cystic walls, and relieves suffering until 
the stone can be removed by operation. 

Similar to this is Pareira brava, which is an excellent drug in gravel 
and in cystic calculus, w T hen the patient has to get down on all fours 
to urinate. The tenesmus is great; the urine passes in drops; pains 
shoot from the kidneys down the thighs, and even into the feet; the 
urine deposits a copious uric acid sediment and also blood. 

This brings to mind Berbe?'is vulgaris. This remedy suits when 
there is kidney affection, with sharp stitching pains radiating from 
the renal region in all directions, particularly downward and forward, 
filling the whole pelvis with pain. There are pains in the loins and in 
the hips. The urine when passed is more slimy than is the Pareira 
brava urine, and deposits copiously a loamy sediment having a yellow- 
ish turbid appearance. Berberis is an excellent remed3 T in case of stone 
in the pelvis of the kidney or in the ureter. Now, you see the differ- 
ence between the two remedies. Pareira has pain going down the 
thighs, Berberis only in the hips and loins. 

You may expect to be called upon to use Camphor when strangury, 
retention of urine, etc. , have resulted from the abuse of Cantharis. 

In some cases Kali nitricum may be substituted for Camphor when 
renal symptoms have been produced by Ca?itharis. 

Apis, too, is said to have relieved the c}^stitis caused by the Spanish 
fly. 

Aconite frequently suits the incipienc}^ of renal and cystic affections, 
which, unmodified, progress into a Cantharis condition. The urging 
to urinate, the dysuria and hematuria are accompanied by an anxious 
restlessness and high fever altogether different from the expression of 
Cantharis. 

Just as Ca?itharis acts on the tissues, producing inflammation, so 
does it excite the brain. Thus we find the patient violent at times, 



94 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

with paroxysms of rage, tearing his clothing and biting at anyone 
who approaches him. He barks like a dog. The slightest touch ag- 
gravates the symptoms, as does also any dazzling object, as a looking- 
glass or glass of water. These symptoms greatly resemble those of 
hydrophobia. 

They also point to Cantharis as a remedy useful in puerperal convul- 
sions and in inflammation of the brain. The eyes are bright, the pupils 
widely dilated, and the face is pale or yellowish, and bears an expres- 
sion of deep-seated suffering. 

These symptoms, indicative of inflammatory action in and about the 
brain and meninges, find their nearest concordant in Belladonna, which 
has the majority of the symptoms above mentioned, if not all of them. 
Even the intolerance of water is present under Belladonna. The dif- 
ference between the two remedies is found in the expression of the 
face, Belladonna having a bright-red face with throbbing carotids; 
Cantharis usually exhibiting a face that is pale, yellow and wrinkled, 
with a constant frown and an expression of extreme suffering. When 
Cantharis is the remedy dysuria is almost always present. 

Camphor and Arsenicum are also nearly related to Cantharis. In 
all three of these drugs the anxiety, the restlessness and the expres- 
sion of suffering on the face indicate the severity of the disease and be- 
token a sinking of the vital forces. 

Arsenicum closely resembles Cantharis in violent inflammations, with 
intense burning, agony, thirst and subsequent collapse. The two 
drugs may also meet in uraemia. Arsenicum, however, lacks the sex- 
ual erethism, and its delirium is associated with a tendency to self- 
mutilation or to suicide. The patient exhibits fear of death, and rest- 
lessness often alternates with the stupor. 

Camphor, like Canthaiis, causes delirium, convulsions, sexual mania, 
priapism, strangury, internal burning with external coldness, hyper- 
emia or inflammation of internal parts, as brain, stomach, bladder, 
etc. The coldness and the sinking of the vital forces in Camphor are 
usually regarded as its most characteristic effects, the symptoms of ex- 
citement being reactionary. In Cantharis, on the contrary, the prin- 
cipal effects are those of excitement, coldness expressing the result of 
its prolonged or continued action. Practical^, you may decide upon 
Camphor when delirium, mania or convulsions exist with coldness and 
extreme prostration, especially if caused by a suppressed eruption. 

On the mucous surfaces we find that Cantharis causes just as violent 



CANTHARIS. 95 

an inflammation as it does on the skin. It is indicated in inflammation 
of the throat of a diphtheritic character, accompanied by severe burn- 
ing and raw feeling in the throat, great constriction of the throat and 
larynx, amounting almost to suffocation, on any attempt to swallow 
water. Even the bladder symptoms are aggravated b}' water. It 
seems as if the sight or sound of water brings about a constriction of 
the sphincter muscles. Cantharis has been used very successfully in 
diphtheria when these throat symptoms and the dysuria were present, 
and when the debility was very marked. 

While Belladoyma has constriction of the throat, worse from swallow- 
ing liquids, and intense inflammation of the throat, it lacks the burning, 
vesication, etc., so characteristic of the Spanish fly. 

Much more nearly related to Cantharis in its throat symptoms are 
Mercui'ius co?'rosivus, Arsenicum, Arum triphyllum, Diffenbachia and 
Capsicum. 

The first is all but identical in symptoms; the distinctive mercurial 
features must decide, although Mercurius cor. causes more swelling, 
especially of the tongue. Deep ulcers form, rather than the extensive 
vesication of Cantharis. 

Arum triphyllum is distinguished by the sore, cracked corners of the 
mouth and tongue, the acrid coryza and the excoriating saliva. 

Diffenbachia has caused an intense stomatitis with blisters and 
burning. 

Capsicum relieves burning vesicles; mouth and throat swollen and 
dark, constriction of the throat, flat ulcers; worse between the acts of 
swallowing. 

Cinnabar is also used in scarlatina, but the mucus from the posterior 
nares is dirty yellow, ropy, and there is dryness of the throat, waking 
the patient at night. 

Apis bears some resemblance to Cantharis in erysipelatous states of 
the mouth and throat, and in diphtheria; but the debility in the latter 
condition is early in Apis, while it is the sequel only in Cantharis. 

In the alimentary tract we find Cantharis producing inflammation 
of the stomach, of the same character as the symptoms already men- 
tioned, rawness, great thirst with aversion to drinks, and vomiting. 

It is of use in dysentery. The discharges are bloody and slimy, 
and are mixed with flakes that look like scrapings of the intestines. 
These, I believe, are not really portions of the bowel or pieces of the 
mucous lining, but are fibrinous formations, resulting from the 



Q6 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

inflammation. Tenesmus is marked and is almost always associated 
with dysuria. The pains in the abdomen are colic-like, doubling the pa- 
tient up; they are of a cutting, burning, griping, wandering character. 

In dysentery Cantharis has several concordant remedies. One of 
these is Colocynth, which has colicky pains, doubling the patient up. 
The stools are bloody and slimy, and are made worse by any attempt 
to eat or drink. They also contain the so-called scrapings of the in- 
testines. Colocynth differs from Cantharis in that the colicky pains 
cease after stool, and the patient is relieved by bending double and by 
pressing firmly against the abdomen. Looking at the two remedies 
from a pathological standpoint, Cantharis has more inflammation and 
Colocynth more nervous symptoms. 

Another remedy very similar to Cantharis is Colchicum. This rem- 
edy has tympanitic distension of the abdomen. The discharges from 
the bowels are composed of white jelly-like lumps, and are followed by 
violent tenesmus and constriction of the anus, tormenting the patient 
more than the urging during stool. 

Another concordant remedy is Capsicum, which is good for dysen- 
tery occurring in moist weather. It is best indicated in stout flabby 
persons. The pains and other symptoms are increased by the slight- 
est draft of either warm or cold air. The drinking of water causes^ 
shuddering and increases the pains. 

Sulphur you will find best adapted to chronic or persistent cases, es- 
pecially when the tenesmus continues from one evacuation to another, 
like Nux vom., or when the bleeding and tenesmus have abated but 
the stools are still slimy with frequent sudden urging. 

Zincum sidphuricum has several times cured subacute cases of dysen- 
tery. The pains are referred to the sides of the abdomen, probably in 
the colon. 

Kali bichromicum follows Cantharis when, though the "scrapings" 
continue, the discharges become more jelly-like. 

We have yet to speak of the action of Cantharis on the sexual 
organs. Cantharis inflames the sexual appetite, producing a violent, 
almost insatiable, desire for coitus, with erections so violent and so 
persistent as to amount to priapism; even sexual intercourse does not 
always reduce the erections. These symptoms call for the drug in 
chordee during the course of gonorrhoea. They also point to its use 
for uncontrollable passion, whether the result of mental disease or not. 

This priapism of Cantharis should not be confounded with that of 



CANTHARIS. 97 

Picric acid. Under this remedy the priapism is associated with some 
spinal disease, such as myelitis, meningitis or locomotor ataxia. Erec- 
tions are violent and the penis is distended almost to bursting. 

Cantharis also acts on the female genital organs, producing nympho- 
mania, for which condition it may be a useful remedy. 

We may also make use of Cantharis in labor. The drug has the 
property of expelling moles and other foreign materials from the 
uterus. We may make use of this effect in cases of retained placenta, 
either after labor at full term or after a miscarriage. 

Cantharis is a useful remedy in erysipelas, especially of the vesicular 
form. The erysipelatous inflammation begins on the nose, either with 
or without vesicles. It then spreads to one or the other cheek, with 
the formation of vesicles which break and discharge an excoriating 
fluid. 

Graphites also has erysipelas commencing on the nose, but it is bet- 
ter adapted to chronic cases. 

Cantharis should be remembered as of use in burns. It is remark- 
able what this remedy will do in allaying the painful symptoms and 
accelerating the repair of affected surfaces. It may be given internally 
in potency and applied locally at the same time. If administered early 
enough in slight burns, the formation of blisters may sometimes be 
prevented. 

In burns you ma}^ compare Cantharis lotion with Sapo soda, Soda 
bicarb., Arsenicum and Carbolic acid — the last named when the affected 
parts ulcerate. 



LECTURE VIII. 

HYMENOPTERA. 

From the order Hymenoptera we derive Apis mellifica, Vespa crabro, 
Formica rufa and Bombus. The local effects of the poisons from these 
insects are well known. The skin becomes red and swollen, with burn- 
ing pain; finally, even sloughing may ensue. In susceptible persons, 
or after the injection of considerable quantities of the poison, general 
symptoms may develop, such as fainting, prostration, chills and cold- 
ness; great restlessness, or insensibility, and even death may result. 

The stings of certain ants {Formica, not Termites, which are neurop- 
terous) contain a poison, the chief ingredient of which is called Formic 
acid. This highly irritating acid is also found in the glands attached 
to the hairs of stinging nettles, in some caterpillars and in old oil of 
turpentine. 

Apis mellifica. 

For this remedy we have two names, according to the manner in 
which the preparation is made. It is either Apis mellifica, the honey- 
bearing bee, or Apium virus, the poison of bees. The original prepar- 
ations of the remedy were made in the following manner: A large 
white dish was placed under a bell jar, in which there was a perfora- 
tion through which a stick was inserted. Several hundred bees were 
then placed beneath the jar. The stick was then moved about, and, 
irritating the bees, caused them to sting the jar and the dish. After 
a while the bees were allowed to escape, and on the bell jar and plate 
were seen numerous specks. Alcohol was poured over these, and thus 
was obtained a powerful extract of the poison of the bee. This is 
Apium virus. Subsequently the whole bee was used. Triturations 
were made of the entire insect. Thus we obtain Apis -mellifica. The 
symptoms of the two preparations have not been separated. 

Apis mellifica is an invaluable acquisition to our Materia Medica. 
In order to understand its symptomatology let us look at its toxi- 
cology. Take, if you choose, a sting on the hand or finger as an 
illustration. Just after the sting, which causes a sharp sticking or 



HYMENOPTERA. 99 

burning pain, there commences, very promptly, swelling of the part, 
with extreme soreness. The part feels as if it had been bruised or 
pounded. The swelling is at first of a rosy pinkish hue. It spreads 
very rapidly; the pains become intense. They are of a burning, sting- 
ing or shooting character, seldom throbbing. Heat of the part in- 
creases with the burning and stinging pains. This may end very 
speedily in resolution or it may go on. If it pursues the latter course, 
you will notice that this ros> r appearance becomes more intense, in 
fact, assumes an erysipelatous appearance. Still later, it changes its 
color and takes on a pale but bluish hue, and the swelling pits on 
pressure, showing that the parts are cedematous. After a while, if 
the condition of the system is such as to permit it, gangrene of the 
part takes place. 

Experience teaches us that some such dermal or cellular symptoms 
are usually present in ever}' case for which Apis is the remedy. They, 
therefore, deserve to be emphasized. The soreness is as important as 
the more frequently described burning, stinging pains, and varies from 
a bruised, sore feeling to an exquisite sensitiveness to contact. The 
swelling is the result of a rapid serous effusion into the cellular tissues. 
It is a universal symptom. 

The inflammation produced by Apis is, therefore, not of a sthenic 
type. It is not, for instance, such as would be cured by Aconite, w T ith 
sudden swelling of the part coming on rapidly and ending in resolu- 
tion; nor is it such as would be cured by Belladonna, with bright red 
swelling accompanied by throbbing pains and ending either in resolu- 
tion or suppuration. The Apis inflammation is distinctly asthenic, 
with whitish discoloration and a tendency to gangrene and destruction 
of tissue. In one case, where the sting was on the hand, the patient 
suffered also from a carbuncle on the back of the neck. 

The vitality is speedily and sometimes alarmingly reduced by the 
action of Apis. This is shown in the severe prostration, desire to lie 
down, deathly faint feeling, premonition of approaching death, nerv- 
ous trembling, coldness and loss of consciousness, especially in erup- 
tive diseases. The heart is weak, beats slowly or almost impercep- 
tibly, with pulselessness at the wrists. 

In the majority of cases calling for Apis the nervous system is irri- 
tated notwithstanding the accompanying prostration. The patient is 
excitable and dances with excessive joyousness; she laughs at the 
greatest misfortune as she would at a comedy; she is always changing 
her occupation, and will not keep steadily at anything. 



IOO A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

As will be inferred from the symptoms mentioned, Apis may be em- 
ployed in states of mind resembling hysteria. The fidgetiness, rest- 
lessness, excitability and ill-timed laughter, together with fickleness 
at work, have led to its successful use for nervous girls. In addition, 
it has been observed that they are awkward, dropping things and then 
laughing in a silly way at their clumsiness. The sexual passion is too 
active, and they are prone to jealousy. 

The confusion of mind and unconsciousness just noted indicate the 
remedy in severe adynamic forms of disease, such as malignant scar- 
latina, diphtheria, typhoid fever, etc. A complete stupor after apo- 
plexy is said to have yielded to Apis when Opium failed. 

In scarlatina the fever runs high, and the attending restlessness is 
one of nervous agitation. The mouth and throat are very red, with 
blisters on the borders of the tongue, and swollen puffy fauces; there 
are burning, stinging pains and a scalded, raw feeling in the mouth 
and throat. The skin pricks as from needles, the rash being inter- 
spersed with a miliary eruption. There is always puffiness of some 
part of the surface. Prostration comes on early, with scanty or sup- 
pressed urine, high fever and drowsiness. 

In meningitis or in meningeal irritation Apis holds a prominent posi- 
tion as a curative agent. It is often the remedy, no matter what the^ 
ailment, when shrill outcries in sleep lead to the suspicion of cerebral 
irritation. Such cases frequently begin with the nervous fidgetiness 
so characteristic of the bee poison, and advance to more serious condi- 
tions. In tubercular meningitis, or in acute cerebral effusions, a sup- 
pressed or undeveloped eruption is a good guide to the choice of Apis. 

We may profitably compare Apis here with Bellado?ina, Helleboius, 
Arsenicum, Bryonia, Zincum, Sulphur, Cuprum, Glonoine, Lachesis, 
Rhus tox., Hyoscyamus, Natrum mur., Bovista, etc. 

Belladonna is doubtless frequently employed when Apis would suit 
better. A little care, however, will enable the practitioner to distin- 
guish the fidgety nervousness of the latter from the more intense cere- 
bral irritation of the former. The congestions of Belladonna are more 
violent, with throbbing of the carotids, injected red eyes, and drowsi- 
ness broken by starts and frightened outcries. The adynamia is much 
less than in Apis. If the disease is scarlatina, the rash is smooth and 
bright red, but not miliary. The skin is hot and the face red, or, in 
some cases, pale; but not pale and cedematous as in Apis. The cer- 
vical glands may be swollen, but there is not the cellular infiltration, 
with an erysipelatous blush, as in the bee-poison. 



HYMENOPTERA. IOI 

If there is meningeal irritation, Belladonna is needed when the con- 
gestive symptoms are intense; Apis, when the nervous agitation pre- 
dominates, with the shrill cry, which betokens stabbing, piercing pains 
or excitement. In meningitis Belladonna is decreasing^ indicated as 
the symptoms of effusion increase, while Apis is increasingly indicated 
as long as symptoms of irritation obtain and the cephalic c^ is marked. 

Helleborus claims precedence when the irritation of Apis gives place 
to mental torpor, with want of reaction. The forehead is wrinkled, 
the pupils dilated, and the lower jaw tends to drop; the sopor is com- 
plete. There are automatic motions of one arm and one leg; the fore- 
head is bathed in cold sweat. In such cases Helleborus may bring 
about reaction so that another remedy will cure. In typhoid fever 
they differ widely. Apis, although it has great weakness, apathy and 
stupor, has a dry, blistered tongue and exquisite soreness of the abdo- 
men. Helleborus has complete sensorial apathy, dark, sooty nostrils, 
slow pulse, and no response to touch or pressure. 

Bryonia bears some slight resemblance to Apis, especially as it may 
be needed, like the latter, for cerebral effusions following suppressed 
exanthemata. The sensorium is benumbed, but the senses are not so 
perverted as in either Apis or Helleborus. There is a constant chewing 
motion; the face is dark red, the lips parched; when offered a drink it 
is taken hastily and impatiently. If the child is moved, it screams 
with pain. Later, when the sensorial depression amounts to sopor, 
Helleborus follows well, even if the chewing motion and hasty drinking 
continue. Apis follows if the sopor is accompanied by a more shrill 
cephalic cry than in either of the other remedies. 

Cuprum compares with Apis when meningitis results from a sup- 
pressed exanthem, but the symptoms are very diverse. Cuprum causes 
loud screaming, followed by violent convulsions; the thumbs are 
clenched, and the face is pale with blue lips; the eyeballs are con- 
stantly rotating. If convulsions occur in the Apis case, they are less 
violent, consisting of restlessness and twitching of one-half of the 
body; the other half is lame and trembles. 

Much more closely related in suppressed eruptions is Sulphur. The 
two follow each other well. 

Glonoine, like Apis, has the cephalic cry; there is a sensation as if 
the head were enormously expanded. Spasmodic vomiting of cerebral 
origin is most prominent in the former, as is also intense congestion 
and throbbing. 



102 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Zincum produces cerebral irritation; the child awakes with fear, rolls 
the head ; cries out and starts in sleep. There is constant fidgety mo- 
tion of the feet. The drug is indicated in anaemic children who are 
too enervated to develop an exanthem. In typhoid states the prostra- 
tion is very great, with impending cerebral paralysis. Unconscious- 
ness develops, with blue hands and feet, coldness, weak pulse; lower 
jaw dropped. Here the Oxide has been successfully employed. 

Rhus tox. , though incompatible with Apis, has many similar symp- 
toms. In scarlatina, for instance, both suit in adynamia, swollen 
throat, erysipelatous inflammation of the skin of the neck, miliary 
rash, drowsiness and oedema. In Rhus, however, the eruption is 
darker, the erysipelas dusky red, and there is great bodily restlessness 
— not the fidgetiness of Apis. 

Arsenicum is similar to Apis in many respects. Both have anxious 
change of place, fear of death, restlessness, great weakness. (See also 
in several instances below.) Irritability of mind occurs in both, but 
it is more an anxiety and fear in Arsenicum; more a nervous restless- 
ness in Apis. 

If they meet in cerebral affections, as possibly they may, especially 
in hydrocephaloid, Arsenicum is to be selected by hot skin, pale and 
hot face. The child lies in a stupor; suddenly it twists its mouth and 
a jerk goes through the body; or the child lies as if dead, with half- 
open eyes, dried mucus on the conjunctivae, and no response to touch 
upon the eyelids. 

Hyoscyamus and Lachesis are similar in jealousy. 

Natrum mur., Bovista, Lachesis, ALthusa, Ignatia, Nux vom. have 
awkwardness; the first is most similar to Apis. 

I have already hinted that Apis may be of use in dropsies. The 
symptoms calling for it are briefly these. In general dropsies we find 
it indicated by the peculiar appearance of the surface of the body. 
The skin has a transparent, waxen look, with a whitish or perhaps 
slightly yellowish tinge. The urine is scanty, and there is almost 
always absence of thirst. The characteristic symptoms are the trans- 
parency of the skin and the thirstlessness. Now as to cause. Apis is 
especially useful in dropsies of renal origin, whether the result of scar- 
latina or not. The urine is scanty and highly albuminous, and con- 
tains casts of the uriniferous tubules. There is a swelling about the 
eyelids. The surface of the body feels sore and bruised; in some cases 
the pain is of a burning character. If the dropsy is of cardiac origin, 



HYMENOPTERA. 1 03 

the feet are cedematous, especially after walking. This is attended 
with almost intolerable soreness and burning. 

Even when the dropsy has invaded the chest and we have hydro- 
thorax Apis may be the remedy, especially when the trouble is of car- 
diac origin. The patient is unable to lie down. He has the same 
constrictive feeling about the chest that we find under Lachesis. He 
has a dry cough, which seems to start from some place in the trachea 
or larynx, usually the trachea, the cough not ceasing until a small 
quantity of phlegm is loosened. Thus far the remedy is exactly like 
Lachesis. But Apis has, in addition to these symptoms, a mental 
symptom which conies from the chest, namely, a constant feeling as 
though he could not live. It is not a feeling of dyspnoea, but appears 
to be a sort of anguish of mind; the patient cannot understand how it 
would be possible for him to get another breath, so great is this suffo- 
cative feeling. Associated with these chest symptoms, the patient 
often has a strange feeling as though he were going to die, but there 
is not the intense fear and sthenic fever of Aconite, nor the great rest- 
lessness of Arsenicum, but more of a fidgety anxiety. 

In pleuritis with exudation Apis is one of the best remedies we have 
to bring about absorption of the fluid. Apis and Sulphur will cure the 
majority of these cases. 

Apis also acts on the synovial membranes, giving a perfect picture 
of synovitis, particularly when it affects the knee. It is indicated 
when there are sharp, lancinating, stinging pains shooting through 
the joint, with aggravation from the slightest motion. 

Bryonia affects the joints and their synovial membranes, but the 
pains are stitching in character, w 7 ith tension, and they are better from 
the warmth of the bed, while the Apis pains are better from cold ap- 
plications. 

Iodine is useful in dropsy of the knee, and has followed Apis well, 
especial^ in scrofulous children (compare also Kali iod.). 

We have still another form of dropsy in which Apis is a remedy, 
namely, dropsy of the brain, a condition which used to be called hy- 
drocephalus. It is not so often indicated in true hydrocephalus, that 
is, when from some mechanical cause there is inflammation set up in 
the membranes of the brain, followed by accumulation of serum; but 
it is in tubercular meningitis that this remedy is useful. Apis is here 
indicated in the first stage. The symptoms which call for it are these. 
The child bores its head backward into the pillow, and rolls it from 



104 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

side to side; every little while the child arouses from sleep with a 
shrill, piercing cry. This peculiar shriek is due to pain. One side of 
the body twitches and the other lies as if paralyzed. Strabismus is 
usually present. The pulse is rapid and weak, and the urine scanty. 
There is no remedy which can do any good in this stage if Apis does 
not. Apis has a peculiarity which I should mention, and that is slow- 
ness of action. Sometimes you will have to wait three or four days 
before you notice any effects from its administration. The favorable 
action of the remedy is first shown by increased flow of urine. 

In dropsies, Apis may be compared first of all with Arsenicum^ 
which has the same transparency of the skin, and is also of use in 
dropsies of renal, cardiac or hepatic origin. The differences between 
the two remedies are the.se. Arsenicum has intolerable thirst, but the 
patient usually drinks only a small quantity at a time, because water 
annoys the stomach. Eating and drinking both cause vomiting. I 
have seen cases in which even a single teaspoonful of medicine pro- 
voked vomiting. The patient exhibits marked restlessness. 

Another remed} T for comparison is Apocynum canabinum. This is 
much used in the West for general dropsies, swelling of any part of 
the body, ascites, hydrothorax, etc., usually without any organic dis- 
ease as a cause. The patient cannot tolerate any food. Food or 
water is immediately ejected. There is a sunken, gone, exhausted 
feeling at the pit of the stomach. 

The next remedy similar to Apis is Acetic acid. This is useful in 
dropsies when the face and also the limbs have this waxen or alabaster 
appearance. It is especially indicated when the lower parts of the 
body, that is, the abdomen and limbs, are swollen, hence it is useful 
in ascites. Thus far it is similar to Apis. But it has thirst, which 
Apis has not, and gastric disturbance is almost always present; sour 
belching, water-brash and diarrhoea. Acetic acid is an undeservedly 
neglected remedy in dropsy. You see how it stands between Apis and 
Arsenicum. It differs from both of these remedies in the preponder- 
ance of gastric symptoms. 

In hydrocephalus, the most similar remedy to Apis in the stage of 
exudation is Sulphur. Sulphur is indicated more on general principles 
than for its particular affinity for the meninges. Tubercular menin- 
gitis cannot occur in an otherwise healthy child. There must be a 
diathesis at the bottom of the trouble. Sulphur helps in the same 
stage as Apis when Apis fails to bring about a reaction, particularly 



HYMENOPTERA. IO5 

when the child is scrofulous aud has other Sulphur symptoms The 
child lies in a stupor, with cold sweat on the forehead, with jerking of 
the limbs, particularly of the legs, with spasms of the big toes and 
sometimes of the thumbs also. The urine is suppressed. Sulphur 
is all the more indicated if there has been a retrocession of some erup- 
tion before the disease displayed itself. 

Helleborus is also similar to Apis in hydrocephalus. Apis is useful 
while there is still some irritation of the brain, as indicated by the 
cephalic cry. Helleborus comes in when torpor predominates and the 
child lies wholly unconscious. The eyes do not react to light. The 
urine is suppressed. There is automatic motion of one side of the 
body. You will notice, too, a peculiar corrugation of the muscles of 
the forehead, particular^ the occipito-frontalis. In milder cases, be- 
fore the stupor is profound, you will find Helleborus indicated by these 
symptoms. This corrugation of the muscles of the forehead is pres- 
ent, together with a constant chewing motion of the mouth. The 
child seems to have no wants. It asks for nothing; yet, when given 
water, it drinks with avidity. 

Now, a word respecting the difference between Belladonna and Apis. 
Belladonna is not usually indicated in tubercular meningitis. It is 
the remedy above all others for simple meningitis, but not for the 
tubercular form of the disease. Belladonna has the very essence of 
acuteness in its symptomatology. Every symptom appears suddenly 
and with great intensity. But tubercular meningitis is a slowly de- 
veloped disease. If the premonitory symptoms are violent, however, 
you may use Belladonna in tubercular meningitis in the stage of hyper- 
emia with acute pains, restless tossing about, crying out in sleep, and 
boring the head into the pillow; but it ceases to be a remed)^ when the 
exudation is established. The range of action of Belladonna is at an 
end when that of Apis begins. 

There is another remedy which sometimes comes in between Bella- 
donna and Apis, and that is Bryonia, which acts on serous mem- 
branes, causing copious exudation. It is indicated after Bcllado?ina. 
The child becomes more stupid from increased pressure on the brain. 
The face suddenly flushes and then pales, usually a bad symptom. 
The child cries out, particularly when moved, even the least bit; this 
is a characteristic symptom. The abdomen is distended and the 
tongue is usually coated white down the middle. So much for Apis 
and its concordant remedies in dropsies. 



106 A CLINICAL MATERIA MBDICA. 

The next use we may make of Apis is in erysipelas. It is useful 
particularly in erysipelas of the face, when the eruption commences 
under or about the right eye, and spreads thence across the face to the 
left side, the parts quickly becoming cedematous, and at first assum- 
ing a pinkish rosy hue. The soreness soon becomes severe, and burn- 
ing stinging pains follow. There is high fever, with dry skin and 
usually no thirst. Now, if the disease is not checked, and the face 
assumes a purplish livid hue, as in phlegmonous cases, in which the 
inflammation involves the deeper structures, causing destruction of 
tissue, Apis may still be the remedy. 

There are several concordant remedies in erysipelas. First of all, 
Belladonna. The difference lies in this: Belladonna is required when 
the swelling of the face is smooth, bright red, streaked red, or, from 
intensity, deep dark red. There is not much tendency to oedema or 
to the formation of vesicles. The pains are always acute, with throb- 
bing in the affected parts. The brain almost always sympathizes 
markedly, causing throbbing in the head and visions as soon as the 
patient closes his eyes. The patient jerks in his sleep. The pulse is 
full and hard. 

Another remedy, more similar to Apis even than Belladonna, is Rhus 
tox. You should be particular in differentiating these two remedies, 
because they are inimical, and one cannot be given after the other. 
Under Rhus tox. the color of the face is dusky red and not the bright 
red of Belladomia, nor the rosy or purplish livid hue of Apis. There 
is almost always a formation of blisters, which burn and sting. They 
are distinguished from those of Apis by the preponderance of itching. 
Under Rhus tox. the disease usually travels from left to right when 
attacking the face. Apis stands between Rhus and Belladonna in nerv- 
ousness, partaking somewhat of the former's restlessness, with the 
latter' s cerebral excitement. Neither produces exactly the livid or 
blue-red hue noticed in some Apis cases. Here Lachesis is nearest. 
The other symptoms will enable you to decide. 

When the nose is mainly attacked Apis compares with Cautharis, 
but the latter has larger blisters and more burning. 

When the face, after a spell of erysipelas, is sensitive to cold, com- 
pare Rhus tox., Belladonna, Hepar, Silicea, Sulphur, etc. 

Apis may be of use in urticaria when there suddenly appear on the 
surface of the body long pinkish- white blotches raised above the skin. 
The itching, burning and stinging are almost intolerable. The 



HYMENOPTERA. 107 

eruption may come as a result of cold or during the course of intermit- 
tent fever. 

Here Apis is similar to Arsenicum, which also produces hives, and 
to Urtica urens. This latter remedy is indicated in hives when the welts 
are smaller than in Apis. The itching and burning are intolerable. 
It is especially indicated when the disease has been produced by eating 
shellfish. 

Terebinthina and Copaiva are also useful in urticaria after eating 
shellfish. 

Kali bromatum is indicated when the hives occur with nervous dis- 
eases. 

Rhus tox. is to be thought of when they are an accompaniment of 
ague or rheumatism. 

Bovista is required when they are attended with diarrhoea, the stools 
being followed by tenesmus and burning. 

Pulsatilla comes in when the hives are of gastric or uterine origin. 

Calcarea ostrearum is especially suited to chronic cases, and Sepia 
and Rumex are indicated when the trouble is worse in the open air, 
the latter especially if worse while undressing. 

Apis may also be given in variola when there are intense itching and 
swelling. 

Apis may be used in rheumatism, whether of articular or muscular 
origin, but it is more frequently indicated in the articular type, com- 
monly called acute inflammatory rheumatism. The affected parts feel 
very stiff and exceedingly sensitive to pressure. There is often a sen- 
sation of numbness. The joint or joints affected are swollen and give 
the patient a kind of ' ' stretched-tight feeling. ' ' The swelling is rather 
pale red in color, and some fluctuation may be detected about the joint. 
There are burning, stinging pains, worse on any motion. 

Apis has often been successfully employed in paralysis following de- 
vitalizing affections, such as diphtheria or typhoid fever, and also when 
meningeal effusions remain after inflammations. In all such cases sup- 
pressed or preexisting exanthemata constitute a leading indication for 
the bee-poison, and the re-appearance of skin symptoms calls for its 
discontinuance as long as the improvement thus instituted lasts. Sul- 
phur is a great aid here. 

In these cases of prostration the patient is either nervous, restless 
and oversensitive, or hot and drowsy, whether thirsty or not. 

Apis produces an intermitting type of fever, and is therefore of 



108 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

service when this type is found in the sick. The chill occurs charac- 
teristically at 3 P.M., and is accompanied by thirst and an oppression 
of the chest as if it were too full, which may be actually the case on ac- 
count of congestion of the thoracic viscera. The chill is worse in the 
warmth. It is followed by burning heat of the whole body, with an 
increase of the oppressive feeling of the chest, drowsiness, but usually 
no thirst, and the warmth of the room becomes intolerable. Then 
comes the sweat, which may, however, be imperfect. There is never 
any thirst during the sweat. This is characteristic. 

During the apyrexia many characteristic symptoms are present. 
The patient often complains of pains under the ribs on either side. 
The feet are swollen and oedematous, the skin is sallow or waxen, the 
urine is scanty, and urticaria breaks out. Such symptoms are found 
in rather severe forms of this affection when excessive use of quinine 
has spoiled the case, and in chronic forms which have undermined the 
general health and produced disease of the liver, spleen, etc. 

The most similar concordant of Apis here is Natrum mur. This is 
indicated in exactly the same type of intermittent fever as Apis; the 
chief difference between the two remedies lies in the time of appear- 
ance of the chill; at ten o'clock in the morning in the case of Natrum 
mur t , and at three o'clock in the afternoon in the case of Apis. 

In typhoid types of fever Apis is to be selected primarily by the 
mental state. The delirium is not of an active type; the patient lies 
in a stupor, with muttering; the face is either flushed red, or, more 
frequently, pale and waxen, wearing a look of anxiety as from visceral 
disease or a happy expression. The skin in this type of fever is burn- 
ing hot in some places, while in others it is unnaturally cool; it is 
almost always dry; should there be sweat it is usually of a transient 
character; the prostration is so great that the patient slides down in 
bed; he cannot exercise sufficient muscular force to retain his position 
on the pillow. The tongue is dry, cracked and red, and, like that of 
Lachesis, it catches on the teeth when the attempt is made to protrude 
it, and it trembles; there is often a whitish or darker coating on the 
dorsum of the tongue, while the edges, especially about the tip, are 
red and covered with little blisters and vesicles. Very important is 
the bruised soreness of the swollen abdomen. 

In these cases Apis resembles Muriatic acid, which has this prostra- 
tion, but with the characteristic acid diathesis. 

In scarlatina most of the indications for Apis have already been 



HYMENOPTERA. IO9 

given. Here, too, we find the same defective effort on the part of 
nature to produce a fever. The body is very hot in some places and 
cool in others. The rash is deep-red in color, very much like that of 
Belladonna, but differing from that remedy, you remember, in the 
presence of this miliary eruption which Belladonna does not have. 
The child is drowsy, sleeping most of the time, or he is drowsy but 
cannot sleep. This symptom you must remember because it is iden- 
tical thus far with one of Belladonna. Associated with this sleepy or 
wakeful state the patient is fidget}' and restless. You notice, too, that 
he is peevish, and manifests every symptom of being very irritable. 

This restless state of Apis must be distinguished from those of Rhus 
tox. and Belladonna. In Rhus tox. it is a general restless state of the 
whole body, and of the mind as well. The patient lies first on one 
side and then moves to the other, but is not affected with anxiety as 
in Arsenicum. In Apis the restlessness or desire to move comes from 
a general nervous feeling. 

The inabilit}' to go to sleep in Belladonna comes from inflammation 
or congestion of the brain. The hyperemia produces this drows}^ 
state, and the brain is so exhausted that the patient cannot go to sleep. 

In addition to the symptoms already mentioned for scarlatina, we 
have Apis further indicated when the condition advances to effusion of 
serum about the brain. The throat symptoms are unimportant. You 
often find patches on the tonsils. The throat inside is swollen and 
rosy-red, while externally it is engorged, with an erysipelatous blush 
to it. Apis may also be used late in the disease for the sequelae — that 
is, when the kidneys become affected and dropsy appears with albu- 
minuria. 

Again, we find Apis of service in diphtheria. The disease advances 
so insidiously that its presence is not suspected, or, from the very be- 
ginning the child is thoroughly prostrated, with high fever and drow- 
siness. The pulse is rapid, but not strong. At first the throat has a 
varnished appearance, as though the tonsils and fauces were coated 
with a glossy red varnish. The membrane forms on either tonsil, 
oftener on the right than on the left, and it is thick, looking like 
wash-leather. The tongue is often swollen, so that the child can 
scarcely swallow. If the child is old enough, he will complain of a 
feeling of fulness in the throat which necessitates swallowing, but 
makes it very difficult. The explanation of this is found in the next 
symptom, that is, the uvula hangs down like a sac of water, and 



IIO A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

consequently there is a feeling of fulness. If you examine the throat 
thoroughly, you will find the rim of the glottis swollen, red and 
oedematous, and breathing is labored owing to the narrowing of the 
entrance of the larynx. In some of these cases the breath is very 
foetid, while in others there is little or no foetor. In still other cases 
you will find as characteristic of Apis a red rash over the surface of 
the body, making the case appear like one of scarlatina. The exter- 
nal throat is swollen and erysipelatous. The above symptoms may in- 
dicate Apis in non-diphtheritic oedema of the glottis also. 

Now, there are several remedies similar to Apis in diphtheria. One 
of them is Arsenicum. Arsenicum is indicated, as you might expect, 
in rather severe cases of diphtheria when the throat is very much 
swollen inside and outside, the membrane has a dark hue, and there is 
great foetor. There is a thin, excoriating discharge from the nose. 
The throat is oedematous, just as it is in Apis; the patient is restless, 
especially after midnight; the urine is scanty, and the bowels are 
either constipated or else there is an offensive, watery diarrhoea. 

In still other cases, when, despite the dark purplish hue of the 
throat, and the marked swelling and great prostration, there is not 
much pain, Natrum arseiiicosum is the remedy. Here, also, the uvula 
is infiltrated with fluid. 

Still another remedy is Kali permanganatum. This remedy, which 
is seldom used in the high potencies, is indicated when the throat in- 
side and outside is swollen and oedematous, the breath is horribly 
offensive, and a thin discharge issues from the nose. The great char- 
acteristic is the extreme foetor. 

Apis causes an irritation of the mucous lining of the larynx and 
trachea, and also soreness in the chest-walls. 

It has been found most useful when laryngeal symptoms accompany 
erysipelas, oedema of the throat, glottis, or larynx, or suppression of 
eruptions; less often in simple laryngitis or laryngeal catarrh. 

Difficult breathing, and especially the unique symptom, " he does 
not see how he can get another breath, ' ' has led to the successful em- 
ployment of the drug in hydrothorax, hydropericardium, oedema pul- 
monum and asthma. 

The lancinating, darting pains, palpitation, orthopncea, etc., render 
Apis valuable in cardiac inflammations and dropsy. The essential 
symptoms seem to be oedema or sudden mucous swelling, dyspnoea, 
sudden, lancinating or stinging pains, restlessness and anxiety. 



HYMENOPTERA. Ill 

Compare: Lachesis, Arsenicum, Sulphur, Belladonna, Kali card., Spig- 
elia, Digitalis, Aspai'agus, Apocynuvi cannabinum . 

Arsenicum and Apis have many resemblances. So apparently alike 
are the restlessness, changing of place, and dyspnoea, that one remedy 
is often given when the other should be. The best distinction lies in 
the fidgety restlessness peculiar to Apis. If dropsy obtains, both may 
be needed in pale, tensely swollen limbs, but Apis often has redness, 
itching or an erysipelatous condition present, as well as thirstlessness. 

Belladonna is too often mistaken for Apis in laryngeal affections. 
The latter has more oedematous swelling, with consequent dyspnoea; 
the former more spasmodic constriction. 

In cardiac affections Arsenicum, Apocynum cannabinum, Digitalis , 
and Aspai'agus bear some similarity to Apis, especially in great debil- 
ity, and dropsy. Apocynum cannabinum is needed when the pulse is 
small and weak, the heart-beat irregular, now weak, now stronger; 
and there is sinking at the epigastrium. Asparagus suits in the aged, 
with weak pulse and pain about the left acromion. Digitalis causes a 
doughy appearance of the skin; the pulse is slow or weak, quickening 
with every bodily movement; a gone, deathly sick feeling develops in 
the epigastrium soon after eating. 

The cough of Apis is frequently encountered in cases where this 
remedy is needed. It resembles, more or less, Lachesis, Carbo veg., 
Rumex, Belladonna, Chamomilla, Crotalus horridus, Nux vomica, 
Bryonia, Ignatia, Arsenicum, Hyoscyamus. 

Lachesis, Nux vom., Bryonia and Hyoscyamus agree in adherent 
mucus. 

But Lachesis has intolerance of touch, even clothing, about the neck, 
a symptom not marked in Apis, except with the sense of suffocation. 

Rumex has a teasing, persistent cough, aggravated by cool air, or 
by anything which increases the volume or rapidity of the inspired air. 

Chamomilla differs mentally. 

Nux vo??iica cures cough from adherent mucus high up in the tra- 
chea; but there is a rough, scraped feeling in the throat. 

Bryo7iia adds epigastric irritation to the suprasternal, and the pains 
in the trachea and chest-walls are sharp, stitching, as well as bruised, 
aching. 

Ignatia induces a nervous cough, and the more the patient coughs, 
the more annoying is the irritation. 

Arsenicum causes more of a burning tickling, referred to the 



112 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

suprasternal fossa; but since it so often concurs with Apis, it should 
be compared with the latter, especially when the cough accompanies 
dropsy, heart disease, etc. 

Belladonna may be misapplied for Apis, but can be distinguished by 
its greater constriction of the throat, and deeper inflammatory red- 
ness. 

Carbo veg. agrees in hoarseness, rawness, and tickling cough, but 
the irritation is as from vapor of sulphur. 

Now, the action of Apis on the genital organs. Apis is often indi- 
cated in diseases of the female organs. Nearly all the provers experi- 
enced symptoms referable to the uterus and ovaries. There is in- 
creased sexual desire with stinging in the ovaries. This is sometimes 
a symptom in widows, and Apis will often relieve it. Tendency to 
abort at or before the third month. Apis produces and will check 
abortion when the symptoms agree. Therefore it must be given cau- 
tiously during pregnancy, because if given in low potency and fre- 
quent dosage it may bring about a miscarriage, especially before or at 
the third month. We may use it in amenorrhcea when we have con- 
gestion of the head as a result of the suppression of the flow, bearing 
down in the uterine region, thirstlessness, and intolerance of heat. 
Particularly is it indicated in girls with this amenorrhcea at the age or 
puberty. They are nervous, hysterical, awkward and silly. It is not 
a natural awkwardness, but one that comes from incoordination of the 
muscles. With these s3'mptoms there is flushing of the face. 

We may also use Apis in affections of the ovaries, especially of the 
right side. It holds the same relation to the right ovary that Lachesis 
does to the left. It is indicated in ovaritis with extreme soreness in 
the right ovarian region, together with burning or stinging sensations, 
and some tumefaction, detectable either over the pelvis or, more char- 
acteristically, through the rectum or vagina. 

In ovarian cysts, Apis is an excellent remedy to control the growth, 
especially in the incipient stages. We have here, in addition to the 
burning and stinging pains, numbness down the thigh and over the 
right side of the body, and a feeling of tightness across the chest, with 
cough. This is not a symptom of lung disease, but is reflex from the 
uterus. 

Now there is a combination of honej^ with salt, known as Mel cum 
sale. This was for years a popular remedy in Germany for bladder 
troubles and for diseases peculiar to women. I have used this remedy 



HYMENOPTERA. 113 

in prolapsus uteri and even in chronic metritis, especially when asso- 
ciated with subinvolution and inflammation of the cervix. The spe- 
cial symptom which leads to the selection of the remedy is a feeling of 
soreness across the hypogastrium from ilium to ilium. 

Apis may be of use in diseases of the eyes. I have seen several 
cases of asthenopia cured by this remedy, when reading caused smart- 
ing in the eyes, with lachrymation and itching of the eye-lids and 
some burning and stinging. Apis is also a remedy for staphyloma, 
whether of the cornea or sclerotic coat. In external diseases of the 
eye, it is not without value. The eyes are over-sensitive to light. 
The conjunctiva is reddened or puffy and chemotic. But this swell- 
ing of the palpebral conjunctiva under Apis is more from congestion 
than from a true chemosis, as under Rhus tox., which is very similar, 
especially in cedematous swelling of the lids, chemosis, hot, gushing 
lachrymation; erysipelas. But Apis has less tendency to the forma- 
tion of pus — a symptom highly characteristic of Rhus tox. In the 
former the pains are stinging, the time of exacerbation is the evening, 
and cold water relieves the inflamed lids. If erysipelatous, the lids 
are a bluish red, looking watery, as if semi-transparent. In the lat- 
ter, the pains are worse at night, particularly after midnight; warmth 
relieves; the erysipelatous lids are of a dusky red, and, together with 
the cheeks, are studded with small watery vesicles. The pains in 
Rhus tox. are usually of a drawing, tearing character, although in 
erysipelas they may be burning or stinging, but with more itching 
than in the bee-poison. The eyelids often feel heavy and stiff. 

Arsenicum compares with Apis in hot tears, violent pains and cede- 
matous lids. But the lachrymation is more acrid. The cedematous 
lids are pale, not bluish-red. The palpebral conjunctiva and the edges 
of the lids are very red. The restlessness is more pronounced. Relief 
is usually obtained from warm applications, though the scrofulous 
patient can open his eyes in the cool open air, but not in the room, 
even if dark. The symptoms are worse at and after 12 p. m. 

To return to the eye symptoms of Apis, the lids are swollen, red 
and cedematous. There is burning of the tarsi, with agglutination of 
the lids. Sudden and very severe pains shoot through the eyes, and 
these are relieved by the application of cold water. The eyes are 
generally worse in the first part of the night. Apis is often indicated 
in scrofulous ophthalmia, in which affection it is often followed by 
Kali bich rom icum . 



114 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

It now only remains for me to speak of the intestinal symptoms of 
Apis. It may be of value in diarrhoea, such, for instance, as comes on 
during the course of typhoid fever or scarlatina, or as the result of the 
debilitating influence of continued heat. 

You will find it useful in the diarrhoea of children who are very 
much debilitated. Irritability of the brain is generally present with 
the condition known as hydrocephaloid. The symptoms are much 
like those indicating Apis in hydrocephalus. The child wakens with 
a scream. The stools are thin, watery, yellow in color, and usually 
worse in the morning. At every motion of the body the bowels move, 
as though the sphincter ani had no power. The stools may or may 
not be offensive. 

Apis differs from Bryonia, which has morning diarrhoea, worse 
from motion; in the diarrhoea of Apis the motion aggravates, not 
because of its general effects, but because the sphincter ani is so 
uncertain. 

In bad cases you will find the urine scanty. 

Apis may also be thought of in panaritium. The finger swells 
rapidly, with tense, glossy-red surface and violent burning, stinging 
pains. 

In this respect it is very similar to Stdphur, and may be followed 
by Sulphur when its action is imperfect. 

Modalities: Apis has general relief from cold applications. Many 
complaints are worse evenings and night, though diarrhoea increases 
in the morning. Motion generally aggravates, as does a w r arm room. 

Apis is antidoted by Plantago and Lachesis, and is complementary to 
Natrum mur. 

Ledum was proposed by Teste as an antidote for the stings of in- 
sects. Dr. Drysdale has cured nightly itching of the feet with it. 

In closing, let me ask you to remember the relation of Apis to 
Arsenicum, Acetic acid, Belladomia and Sulphur. Remember, also, its 
inimical relation to Rhus tox. 



LECTURE IX. 

MOSCHUS. 

The order of Ruminantia furnishes us with an article called Musk, 
which is obtained from the Moschus moschiferus ■, or musk-deer. It is 
found in a sac just behind the umbilicus, and probably consists of a 
secretion from the preputial follicles. 

The second word, " moschiferus," is a necessary qualification, since 
several species of the musk-deer, as the Tragulus Javanicus and the 
Meminna Indica, are unprovided with the musk-bearing pouch. 

So penetrating is the odor of this substance, that it is with great 
difficulty removed from a room, even after extensive cleansing and 
alterations. 

Moschus is of some value in nervous affections, and also in several 
grave forms of disease. Injected into the veins of animals, it has 
produced narcotism with muscular spasms, bloody stools and finally 
death. Wood regards its action on man as feeble and uncertain, 
though he admits its clinical worth when the nervous system is ex- 
hausted, with accompanying restlessness, etc. Ringer regards it as 
ill-adapted to medicine on account of its sickening odor. Bartholow, 
Flint, Hammond and Rosenthal do not use it in hysteria. German 
writers, Jolly, for instance, admit a temporary benefit from its use in 
hysteria. Like some American authorities, they employ it more con- 
fidently in pneumonia and in spasmus glottidis. Trousseau, with 
characteristic conservatism, rejects the overdrawn laudations of older 
writers, and proceeds, in his own unique fashion, to define its accurate 
application to diseases. 

In our own school, precise prescribing has had its influence in more 
clearly defining the power of Musk, and in thus limiting its action 
within reasonable bounds. The experiments of Joerg and Sunderlin, 
which Allen has seen fit to incorporate in the Encyclopaedia, are con- 
sidered by some to be contradictory. Still, they are not opposed to 
other provings obtained with potencies or by inhalation, and so are of 
value and deserve to be retained. 

Homceopathically employed, Moschus is of use in various affec- 
tions when the nervous symptoms predominate. The disease, in 



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consequence, does not follow its normal course, but remains uncured 
or develops serious symptoms, indicating nervous exhaustion. It 
is also sometimes called for in hysteria and hypochondriasis. 

Moschus, then, produces numerous symptoms referable to the nervous 
system. The following are especially worthy of note: 

Excited as from alcohol; pulse full and frequent; temperature 
slightly elevated; congestion of the brain; raves, speaks rapidly and con- 
fusedly; scolds until her lips are blue, her face pale, and she falls uncon- 
scious; anxiety; starts at any noise; anxious about death. Anxiety, 
with fainting; faints, with coldness, pale face, complete unconscious- 
ness; hysteria; cries one moment and bursts into uncontrollable 
laughter the next; delirium; sleeplessness; muscular twitching; 
ataxia; the face wears an expression of surprise; convulsions, more 
tonic than clonic. 

Accompaniments: palpitation of the heart, as from anxious ex- 
pectation; nervous, busy, but weak; soon drops things; tremulous 
nervousness; fainting spells, with pale face and coldness; sleepy dur- 
ing the day; rush of blood to the head, with staring eyes; dizzy un- 
steadiness, as of something rapidly moving up and down; vertigo; 
headaches and pains in the back and limbs, which are described as a 
sensation of tension, stiffness, pressure or drawing; the muscles and 
skin are tightly drawn (tonic spasm). She frequently complains of 
nausea, and there is cramping about the navel, or a jerk-like clawing. 
Uneasiness in the legs, worse while she is sitting; great tympanitis, 
with fainting; copious watery urine; spasmus glottidis. The menses 
are too early and too profuse, preceded by the tense, drawing sensa- 
tions, and also a drawing and dragging towards the genitals. Sexual 
desire is increased, with local titillation. 

Sudden sensation in the upper part of the larynx, as if it closed 
upon the breath. A kind of "cramp" in the lung, beginning with 
an inclination to cough, gradually increasing* and making him perfect- 
ly desperate. Suffocative constriction in the chest. 

The most important hysterical symptoms of Musk are: attacks 
even to fainting or unconsciousness; coldness of the surface; pale face; 
suffocative paroxysms; scolding until she falls unconscious. 

Compare Castoreum, Nux moschata, Asafcetida, Gum ammo7iiac ) 
Valeriana, Ignatia, Magnesia muriatica. 

Camphor antidotes many of the symptoms of Musk, especially if 
unconsciousness and coldness are present. 



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Castoream is derived from the preputial sacs of the beaver. Like 
Musk it causes nervousness, twitching, and deranged menses. But it 
is more adapted to the nervous symptoms which precede fully de- 
veloped hysteria. It suits women who suffer from irritable weakness, 
abdominal symptoms predominating. 

Charge, for example, employs it for women who, during convales- 
cence from a prostrating disease, as typhoid fever, suffer from spas- 
modic affections, twitchings of muscles, with extreme exhaustion. 
The want of nervous reaction, therefore, tends to prolong convales- 
cence unduly, and Castoreum, by strengthening the nerves, hastens re- 
covery. 

Trousseau employs this remedy for nervous colic with pallor, cold 
sweat, and sudden loss of strength, caused by emotions, chilling the 
feet, etc. Also for amenorrhcea, with painful tympany; the menstrual 
blood, owing to uterine tenesmus, escapes only in drops. Teste agrees 
with him in the main. 

The provings develop a train of symptoms quite consistent with 
these clinical effects. The woman is nervous, apprehensive and sad, 
growing fitful during the menses. Tearing pains, better from press- 
ure or rubbing. Tearing pressure in different parts during menses. 

Abdomen distended with flatus; dragging in the groins, inclina- 
tion to stool during menses. Cutting about the navel. 

Stools of bloody mucus, or of wmitish water, with burning in the 
anus. Green mucous stools, which burn. Cutting colic before stool, 
better from pressure or bending double. 

A Spanish physician has confirmed the modality of Castoreum, re- 
lief of pains from pressure, and we may profit by French and 
Spanish authorities in their treatment of nervous affections, since 
from national peculiarities they have ample opportunities to treat such 
cases. 

The similarities between Musk and Castoreum are rather in the kind 
of affections in which they are indicated than in special symptoms. 
Still Trousseau places them together in nervous attacks, when the 
aura starts from the abdominal viscera. But only the Musk has clear- 
ly developed hysterical attacks, with pulmonary and laryngeal spasms 
and unconsciousness. 

And we may say, in passing, only Castoreum has cured watery or 
green mucous stools in delicate, nervous children, who weaken under 
summer heat or during dentition, and who will not rally under the 
usual remedies. 



Il8 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Nux moschata exerts a very novel influence upon the mind. The 
state varies from a bewilderment, in which the surroundings are 
strange, dreamy, or fanciful, to a condition of absentmindedness, 
sleepiness, and finally deep stupor, with loss of motion and sensation. 
Mental states may alternate. At one time she laughs, as if everything 
partook of the ludicrous. She jests even about serious subjects. 
Suddenly her mood changes to sadness, with w 7 eeping and loud cry- 
ing; or her expression grows stupid, all ideas vanish, and she appears 
as if overwhelmed with sleep. There are, likewise, errors of percep- 
tion; a momentary unconsciousness she regards as having been of long 
duration. Her hands look too large. Objects gradually diminish in 
size as she looks at them steadily. The bodily functions come under 
the same influence; great weakness and bruised feeling of the small of 
the back and the legs; the knees feel weak, as after a long journey; pros- 
tration; tendency to faint; oppressed breathing, rush of blood to the 
heart, skin cold and dry. So relaxed that pulse and breath are scarce- 
ly discernible. Head drops forward, the chin resting on the breast. 
Head rolls about as if bulky. Bowels enormously distended with 
wind, as from weak digestion. Even soft stools are evacuated with 
difficulty. It is this mental and bodily atony which has led to the ex- 
cellent cures made with Nux moschata, not only in hysterical weakness, 
but in typhoid fever and cholera infantum. The hystero-spasmodic 
symptoms of the drug are intimately commingled with the above 
symptoms; head jerked forward; jaws clenched; heart as if grasped; 
sudden oppression of the heart, with choking sensation; tonic, fol- 
lowed by clonic spasms; unconsciousness or fainting. 

Accompaniments are: great dryness of the mouth and throat, 
which, on account of her tendency to magnify, she complains of ex- 
tremely. The least emotional excitement renews the symptoms, in- 
creases the distension of the abdomen, etc. Skin dry and cool, no 
disposition to sweat. Palpitation of the heart; heart-beat and pulse 
changeable. 

Valeriana is so much abused as an antispasmodic that Homceopathi- 
cians are too apt to neglect it. But it occupies its definite place in the 
treatment of hysteria, differing from Musk, Asafcetida, and all other 
"nervines." It is not so much adapted to hysterical spasms, with 
unconsciousness, like the drugs already considered, as it is to a general 
state of nervous and vascular excitement. Both mind and body are in 
a condition of irritation. The patient is livety, joyous, talking 



MOSCHUS. 119 

rapidly, with rapid sequence of thoughts. Sometimes she imagines 
she is beset with dangers, or surrounding objects seem strange. 
She suffers from headache, giddiness and restlessness. Her muscular 
organism is so irritated that she cannot keep quiet; she must move. 
The same state influences her pains. The provings show twinging, 
drawing, cramp-like, stinging, or darting-tearing pains, all worse 
when she sits and better when she walks. The circulation, too, is ex- 
cited; her head feels full to bursting; constant heat and uneasiness; 
dry heat in the evening while sitting, flushes of heat. She is wide 
awake and restless all night, falling into a dreamy sleep toward morn- 
ing. Digestion is disturbed. Before dinner she has a taste as of 
foetid tallow, while early in the morning, on awaking, the taste is flat 
or slimy. Nausea, as if a thread w r ere hanging in the throat; nausea 
beginning in the region of the umbilicus, and gradually rising to the 
fauces. Bloated abdomen. 

From the order of Umbellifer<z we derive two gums which have 
often been used in nervous affections. I refer to Gum ammoniac, and, 
especially, to Asafcetida. 

The latter acts most prominently upon the abdominal ganglia, and 
thence upon the whole nervous system. Its most characteristic effects 
are as follows: reversal of the peristaltic action of the bowels, 
stomach, and particularly of the throat; rancid eructations, with pro- 
fuse saliva, greasy taste; the head feels dull and compressed; burning 
in the stomach and oesophagus; enormous meteorism of the stomach; 
stools papescent, brown, offensive; spasmodic tightness of the chest, 
as if the lungs could not be fully expanded; oppression to an agoniz- 
ing degree; heart congested and distended, with small pulse. Draw- 
ing and tightness, here and there; pulse small, contracted, with shiver- 
ing in the lumbar region. Pressure in various places, usually from 
within outward. Cutting, labor-like distress in the region of the 
uterus. Urine brown, of pungent odor. Later, as the patient weak- 
ens, there are malaise, yawning, shuddering from time to time, verti- 
go, vanishing of sight and cold sweat. 

Clinically, it has been determined that Asafcetida is suited to nerv- 
ous patients, when their condition is the direct sequel of the checking 
of habitual discharges, such as the external healing of running ulcers, 
the sudden suppression of a diarrhoea, etc. Also after abuse of 
mercury, when, besides the nervousness, affections of the bones and 
periosteum, such as caries, are likewise present. There are extreme 



120 A CUNICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

sensitiveness in the region of the carious ulcer, and severe pains at 
night. Women are sometimes helped by Asafcetida when a habitual 
expectoration is checked and hysterical symptoms, together with op- 
pression of the chest, follow. Here the drug displays a family re- 
semblance to Gu?n ammoniac, which has frequently been given for 
such a condition of the lungs. 

Musk and Asafoetida agree in producing globus hystericus, spasm of 
the chest, and palpitation. The former is best adapted to a full- 
fledged hysterical spasm, with fainting or unconsciousness. The latter 
has more offensive discharges, and the globus is part of an extensive 
reverse peristalsis. Fainting has not been noted (except in one case, 
when the intensity of the pain caused it). Tympany is also well 
marked. 

Magnesia muriatica resembles the last remedy and also Musk. . Like 
other Magyiesia preparations it affects the stomach and bowels and the 
nervous system. Thus the Carbonate and Phosphate are indicated in 
neuralgia, especially in cases subject to repeated attacks by reason of 
nervous debility. The Muriate, however, has been proved to be emi- 
nently useful in hysteria. We observe prominent abdominal symp- 
toms; nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth; liver en- 
larged; tongue large, flabby and yellow; she must hurry to stool, 
which is crumbly as if burnt; and, as if to show a combination of ab- 
dominal and nervous symptoms, there are rumbling in the abdomen, 
with dragging, griping, cutting, tension, and then pain as if the 
bowels were cut to pieces; feeling of something rising into the throat 
like a ball, almost taking her breath; relieved by eructations. Flatus 
collects in the stomach and abdomen, causing reflex spasmodic symp- 
toms through irritated nerves. 

This is still further confirmed by the following: attack of faintness 
during dinner; anxiety with nausea and pale face; trembling of the 
body; relieved by eructations. Or, again, sudden heaviness on the 
chest during dinner, nausea, water in the mouth; heat mounting to 
the face; it seems as if eructations or vomiting would relieve her. 

Illusions of fancy have been observed. Very important is the head- 
ache; griping and raging in both temples, sensation as though she 
would become dizzy and lose consciousness, disappearing on pressing 
the head with both hands. Headache relieved by wrapping up the 
head. 

The menstrual flow is black, clotted, with pains in the back while 



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walking and in the thighs when sitting. Uterine spasms, with ten- 
sion in the groins (Hale thinks in the broad ligaments); cutting in 
the lower abdomen during menses. Cramps in the abdomen, with 
pressure upon the rectum and genitals. 

Palpitation of the heart, not, like Musk, "as from anxious expecta- 
tion," but, nonetheless, non-organic, for it comes on while sitting and 
on rising from a seat, and disappears on moving about. This has been 
several times confirmed. 

Briefly, by way of summary: Moschus, excited, scolding, fainting; 
coldness; spasm of the glottis and lungs. 

Castoreum, exhausted, pains better from pressure; menstrual colic 
with pallor and cold sweat. 

Nux moschata, errors of perception, drowsy; faints; enormous tym- 
pany; oppression of the heart and throat; skin dry, cool. 

Valeriana, nerves irritated, cannot keep still; tearings, cramps, 
better when moving; taste of tallow or slime. 

Asafcetida, reverse peristalsis, rancid eructations, offensive flatus; 
tightness of the chest; checked discharges. 

Magnesia muriatica, faints at dinner; relief from eructations; head 
better from pressure and wrapping up; palpitation better on moving 
about; stools crumble. 

Moschus, has been employed by allopathic physicians when, in the 
course of pneumonia, a purely nervous delirium obtains. The brain 
is violently excited and the patient talks nonsense with furious viva- 
city (Trousseau). 

We need remedies for just such cases, remedies which will calm the 
irritable weak nerves, and permit the disease to proceed in its normal 
course. 

The following may prove beneficial in diseases embarrassed by a con- 
dition of non-reaction from irritable weakness: Musk, Ambra grisea, 
Asafcetida, Valeriana, Castoreum, Coffea, Scutellaria, Cypripedium, Coca, 
Zincumox., China, CampJwra, Agaricus, Tarentula. 



LECTURE X. 

SEPIA. 

Belonging to the Mollusca is an animal called the Sepia, or cuttle- 
fish. A hard calcareous substance belonging to the cuttle-fish is, you 
all know, used for the feeding of birds. The animal itself possesses a 
little sac or pouch which contains a dark brown, almost black, fluid. 
When pursued by larger fish it ejects this fluid, thus clouding the 
water and protecting itself from its foe. This was for a long time 
supposed to be the only use for this fluid. It was supposed to be en- 
tirely inert when taken into the human system. Since Hahnemann's 
experiments have shown the fallacy of this belief, it is safe to suppose 
that the cuttle-fish uses it also to kill the smaller fry upon which it 
preys.* The name Sepia is the common term used to designate 
this remedy in our Materia Medica, the juice just referred to being the 
part employed. This juice is used by artists. The history of the in- 
troduction of this substance into our Materia Medica is as follows: 

It is stated on the authority of Dr. Hering that an intimate friend 
and patient of Hahnemann, an artist, was in the habit of wetting his 
brush, containing India ink, with his saliva. Failing to cure him of 
his chronic ailments, Hahnemann suggested the ink as the probable 
cause of his persistent symptoms. The artist doubted this, but never- 
theless modified his custom by covering the lips with a thin layer of 
sponge moistened with water, the mouth being protected by an imper- 
vious though pliable shield, and his obscure illness shortly passed 
away. Hahnemann then instituted provings with the Sepicz succus. 
All the symptoms observed by him have since been confirmed. In 
1874 the American Institute of Homoeopathy, acting under the notion 
that our old remedies should be reproved, performed this task for 
Sepia. There were made some twenty-five provings of the drug in 
the third to the two-hundredth potencies. These were reported 
at the meeting of the Association in 1875. They testify to the fact 
that the provings left us by Hahnemann cannot be improved upon. 

Sepia is a remedy of inestimable value. It acts especially on the 
female' organism, although it also has an action on the male. It is 
particularly adapted to delicate females with rather fine skin, sensitive 

*See also Teste, Materia Medica, page 299. 



SEPIA. 123 

to all impressions, usually with dark hair, although not necessarily so; 
the face is apt to be sallow, and the eyes surrounded by dark rings. 

It acts upon the vital forces as well as upon the organic substances 
of the body. It very soon impresses the circulation, which becomes 
more and more disturbed as the proving progresses. Even as early as 
the fourth hour there are developed flushes of heat and ebullitions. 
These flushes end in sweat, with a weak, faint feeling. Any motion 
or exertion is followed by hot spells and free sweats. 

Hand in hand with this orgasm is an erethism of the nervous sys- 
tem, causing restlessness, anxiety, etc. 

These two sets of symptoms indicate the disturbing influence of the 
drug upon the nervous system of animal life, and also upon the vaso- 
motor nerves. Thence arise headaches, various local congestions, etc. 

Quickly following these symptoms are those marked by relaxation 
of tissues and nervous weakness. The prover becomes languid, pros- 
trated, faint. The joints feel weak, as if they would easily become 
dislocated. The viscera drag downward, and thus originate the well- 
known goneness, etc. Venous congestions still continue, and, indeed, 
on account of vaso-motor weakness, increase. The prolapsed uterus 
becomes more and more engorged, the portal stasis is augmented and 
the liver is heavy and sluggish. The bloodvessels are full, "and hence 
the limbs feel sore, bruised and tired. The general depressing influ- 
ence upon the vital powers is further displayed in great weakness, 
faintness and trembling. The limbs feel heavy, as if paralyzed; stiff- 
ness and unwieldiness of the legs, especially after sleep. 

The sphincters, as well as all structures depending for power upon 
non-striated muscles, are weak. Hence the rectum becomes pro- 
lapsed, evacuations of bowels and bladder are tardy and sluggish, and 
yet there is no complete paralysis. 

Organic changes are produced as exhibited in the complexion, which 
is yellow, earthy; in the secretions, which are offensive, sour, excoriat- 
ing, etc.; in the condition of the skin, which has offensive exhalations, 
and is disposed to eruptions, discoloration, desquamation, ulcers, etc. 

Among the conditions which modify the Sepia case, none is so im- 
portant as the effect of motion. Two or three provers experienced 
decided relief of the symptoms (one prover excepting horseback rid- 
ing) from violent exercise. But man} 7 symptoms are made worse from 
exertion. How, then, are we to discriminate? Since many of the 
symptoms arise from lax tissues, with torpidity, and, above all, with 



124 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

surcharged veins, exercise, by favoring the return of blood to the 
heart, relieves. The aggravation from horseback riding or from the 
motion of a ship, since it jars the sensitive parts and even tends to in- 
crease venous fulness, necessarily augments the troubles. But the 
headache, faint, exhausted condition, the sacro-lumbar pains, and 
often, too, the prolapsus uteri, are naturally intensified by walking. 

Briefly, it has been found that Sepia acts well in menj or, more 
often, in women who are puffed and flabby, less frequently emaciated; 
who have a yellow, or dirty yellow-brown blotched skin; who are in- 
clined to sweat, especially about the genitals, armpits and back, suffer 
with hot flashes, headaches in the morning, awaken stiff and tired, 
and are the subjects of diseases of the sexual organs. The man has 
sexual erethism, but without energy, and coitus induces great exhaus- 
tion (neurasthenia). The woman is erethistic, with hysteria, or with 
prolapsed uterus, palpitation, orgasm of blood, faintness, etc. In 
both cases, there may be portal stasis, with imperfectly acting liver, 
with atonic dyspepsia, sluggish bowels, uric acid deposit in the urine, 
and attending evidences of impaired digestion and assimilation. The 
general attitude is never one of strength and healthful ease, but rather 
of lax connective tissue, languor, and easily produced paresis. 

It is to be further remembered that the Sepia symptoms are notably 
worse in the forenoon and evening, the afternoon bringing a time of 
general mitigation. Of this fact there are numerous confirmations. 

We are now prepared to review the symptoms in detail, and to de- 
termine whether they sustain the assertions thus far made. 

To understand the symptomatology of so prominent a drug as Sepia, 
which has in its pathogenesis some two thousand symptoms of more 
or less importance, we must consider the action of the substance upon 
the various tissues. First of all the blood. Sepia causes great dis- 
turbance in the circulation; many of its symptoms seem to depend 
upon venous congestion, and this is especially noticeable in the portal 
circulation. Reviewing some of the symptoms based on this patho- 
logical condition, we find flashes of heat which seem to begin about 
the trunk and go upward to the head, with anxiety, and, of course, 
an oppressed feeling, ending in perspiration; throbbing all over the 
body, particularly in the epigastrium, in the hepatic region, in the 
uterine region, and in the small of the back. This symptom is very 
common in hysteria and chlorosis. Nose-bleed, either from mechan- 
ical causes, as a blow or a fall, from being in a hot room, or from 



SEPIA. 125 

suppressed menses. Throbbing pain in the uterus; the uterus when 
examined is found to be swollen, engorged with blood, sensitive to the 
touch, and as we shall see when speaking of the local symptoms, dis- 
placed. The hands are hot and the feet are cold; or, as soon as the 
feet become hot the hands become cold. This is an excellent indica- 
tion for Sepia. 

If we look at the symptoms of the skin, again we find the action of 
Sepia due to defective venous circulation. We know that when the 
vaso-motor nerves are inactive the skin is more sensitive to the effects 
of irritation, and is particularly apt to develop herpetic eruptions, 
especially about the elbow and knee-joints. Ulcers may form about 
the joints, particularly about the joints of the fingers. Under Sepia 
these are generally painless. There are only two other remedies that 
I know of with this symptom, namely, Borax and Mezereum. Sepia 
has been many times confirmed as a remedy in herpes circinatus. 

Sepia also causes yellowish-brown spots, itching, redness, vesicles, 
humidity and rawness, scaling pustules. The warm room makes the 
urticaria patient feel comfortable; but the warmth of the bed aggra- 
vates the pricking of the skin. Dunham, guided by the tendency to 
scaling, recommends the drug as an antidote to Rhus \ oisoning. 

Sepia stands well in the treatment of psoriasis, though inferior to 
Arsenicum and Arsenicum iodatum. 

These yellowish-brown spots have also been removed by Lycopodium, 
Nux vomica and Sulphur. Curare is used by Dr. Baruch, of New 
York. 

Besides Sepia, Calcarea ostrearum, Baryta carb. and Tellurium have 
been recommended for ringworm. Baryta carb. has never been suc- 
cessful in my hands. Tellurium is useful for ringworm over a great 
portion of the body in intersecting rings. 

In scabies Sepia is indicated after Sulphur, when pustules intersperse 
the itch-vesicles. 

Sepia has a marked action on connective tissue, weakening it, and 
thus producing a great variety of symptoms. Thus, there is weakness 
of the joints, which give out readily when walking; weakness about 
the pit of the stomach, not relieved by eating and evidently the result 
of a sagging down of the viscera. This effect of Septa may be utilized 
in cases in which the joints are readily dislocated. 

Now, taking up the organs seriatim, we find Sepia to have a marked 
action on the mind. It produces a mental state which' is quite 



126 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

characteristic, and which ought to be present when Sepia is the remedy. 
The patient, usually a woman, is low-spirited, sad, and cries r:adily. 
This sadness is usually associated with irritability. It will not do to 
find fault with the Sepia woman. At other times she manifests a con- 
dition of perfect indifference. She does not care for her household 
affairs or even for her own family. 

This mental state of Sepia is to be distinguished from that of Pul- 
satilla, Natrum mur. and Causticum. 

Pulsatilla is without doubt the nearest analogue. Like Sepia, it de- 
velops a state of weeping, anxiety with ebullitions, peevish ill-humor, 
solicitude about health, etc. But only the former has the mild yield- 
ing disposition, clinging and seeking consolation.* There may be 
moroseness and peevishness, or irresolution, but there is the angry irri- 
tability and the cool indifference of the latter. 

Natrum muriaticum is complementary to Sepia; they agree in caus- 
ing weeping mood, depression of spirits, persistent recalling of past 
unpleasantnesses, irritability, indifference, loss of memory, and alter- 
nation of mental states. The former has prominently, "worse from 
consolation." Clinically, we may say the same of Sepia. Both rem- 
edies, too, have ailments aggravated by vexation or anger. The two 
are evidently similar in causing weak and irritable nerves, but their 
complemental relation consists in the fact that Sepia causes more 
vascular erethism; hence it is that under Sepia, disturbed feelings in- 
duce congestion of the chest and head, animated conversation causes 
hot face, and sweats follow excitement. In Natrum mur., the symp- 
toms point more to nervous excitement or weakness alone, hence emo- 
tions induce headache, and drawing up the spine; and unpleasant 
thoughts cause sadness, paralytic weakness, or irritability without 
ebullitions. If hypochondriacal, it is a state of melancholy from men- 
tal depression, caused by inert bowels; while in Sepia the same state 
depends also upon portal stasis, and therefore is more persistent and 
associated with more irritable temper. Natrum mur. may be called 
for when the mental state depends upon uterine disease or menstrual 
irregularity, but this will be only a prolapsus, never the uterine en- 
gorgement of Sepia. The indifference of Natrum mur. is born of 
hopelessness and mental languor; while that of Sepia includes an un- 
disguised aversion to those nearest and naturally dearest. 

Causticum induces sadness, especially before the menses.- The face 
is yellow; but the anxiety is more a timid, fearful state. She is full 



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of forebodings. She dreads the possibility of accidents to herself and 
others. 

Lilium tigrinum stands very near to Sepia. It affects the circula- 
tion, particularly of venous blood, and, as reflex symptoms from 
uterine and ovarian irritation, there are nervous irritability; desire to 
be busy, yet cannot do much; hurried manner. Depressed, full of 
apprehension of incurable disease, of accidents, etc. Feels that she 
will go crazy; weeping mood. 

Both remedies suit the weakened system, especially that of the 
female; fearful about one's health; hurried, nervous, fidgety; so 
nervous that the least excitement causes cold, clammy hands, palpita- 
tion, etc. In both, the cause of debility seems to be a relaxation of 
the ligamentous structures, serous sacs and veins. The first two ac- 
count for the empty, gone feelings; weak knees (even cracking in 
Lilium, from deficient synovial fluid); prolapsi, etc. The last ex- 
plains the readiness to portal stagnation {Sepia), fulness of the chest, 
heart, and the veins of the extremities. 

There is, however, an essential difference in this, that the Lilium 
patient finds relief in diverting her mind by busying herself; while 
the Sepia patient has many nervous symptoms relieved by violent ex- 
ercise. It is, in the former case, a sexual erethism which is thus re- 
lieved; in the latter, relief is general, by favoring venous circulation, 
nervous erethism being buL slight, and being associated with lessened 
venereal passion, and aversion to coitus. Moreover, Lilium has a 
marked remission of its symptoms in the forenoon, while Sepia is more 
apt to find relief during the afternoon. 

Hepar develops a mood which it may not be inappropriate to con- 
sider. Sadness; unpleasant events return to mind; sad in the evening, 
even with thoughts of suicide; peevish: the slightest thing makes 
him break out into violence; he does not wish to see the members 
of his own family. 

But this latter condition is not quite the indifference of Sepia. It 
arises more from a contrary mood. And, further, only Hepar has 
such violent outbursts of passion. 

Platina is similar in its depressed moods. "Indifference; he does 
not seem to care whether his absent wife dies or not." But the 
digression is into haughtiness; or into anxiety, with fear of imminent 
death; or into that contracted mental state akin to the feeling of per- 
sonal superiority, in which "everything seems too narrow; with 



128 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

weeping mood." And, besides, as we shall see anon, the uterine symp- 
toms differ materially. 

Iyet us now consider the head symptoms of Sepia. There is a dis- 
ease of the head called hemicrania, for which Sepia is one of our main 
remedies. The symptoms which indicate it here are the following: 
pains over one eye (usually the left), of a throbbing character; deep, 
stitching pains which seem to be in the membranes of the brain; the 
pains almost always shoot upward or from within outward; they are 
so severe as to extort cries, and frequently culminate in vomiting. 
The paroxysms are renewed or aggravated by motion, light noise or 
by a thunderstorm and are relieved by sleep or rest in a dark room. 
Usually, with women, there are soreness of the face, uterine malposi- 
tion, or disturbance of menstruation. We find, too, that the patient 
may have a jerking of the head backward and forward, worse while 
sitting and in the forenoon. This has been utilized in nervous women 
(with hysteria for instance), and also in children with open fonta- 
nelles. In these cases you should not give Sulphur, Calcarea, or reme- 
dies of that type. Study the symptoms and you will find that Sepia 
is indicated. Sepia is also useful in arthritic headaches, especially 
when, like those of Nux vomica, they are worse in the morning, with 
nausea and vomiting. The liver, of course, is affected, and the urine^ 
is loaded with uric acid. 

In headache from brain-fag Sepia is to be selected by its general 
cachectic condition. It is said to be particularly efficacious when a 
one-sided occupation has led to brain exhaustion. Compare Natrum 
mur., Nux vom., Sulphur, Picric acid. 

In hemicrania you may compare Sepia with Belladomia, Sanguinaria, 
Iris, Pulsatilla, Nux vomica, Arseiiicum, Theridion, Silicea and Thuja. 

Belladonna is to be selected in hemicrania when there are violent hy- 
peremia, with throbbing carotids, red face, intolerance of the least jar, 
light or noise. It is indicated, you will see, in plethoric patients, and 
not in the cachectic, as with Sepia. 

Sanguinaria produces a right-sided headache, the pains coming over 
from the occiput. They increase and decrease with the course of the 
sun, reaching their acme at mid-day. The paroxysms end with pro- 
fuse urination (as in Silicea, Gelsemium and Veratrum albuni). They 
recur every seven days. Sa?iguinaria also has a menstrual headache 
which attends a profuse flow. In Sepia the menses are scant}^. In 
Sangui?iaria the pains are on the right side; in Sepia they may occur 
on either side. 



SEPIA. 129 

You will use Iris versicolor in hemicrania when the attack begins 
with blurring of sight and the paroxysms are attended with sour, 
watery vomiting. The pains involve the infra-orbital and dental 
nerves, with stupid or stunning headache. 

Pulsatilla is very similar to Sepia. Both are indicated by scanty 
menses; bursting, throbbing, boring or stitching pains on one side of 
the head; obscuration of sight, white tongue, nausea and vomiting. 
Pulsatilla has more vomiting, and a thickly-furred tongue with clammy 
mouth, and relief from cold air. The pains are shifting in character, 
and are associated with chilliness. They are worse in the evening. 
In Sepia the pains recur in shocks or flashes, with proportionate in- 
crease of heat in the head; the blurring of sight is associated with 
heavy eyelids; and the face, though red with headache in either rem- 
edy, is ordinarily yellow with Sepia and pale with Pulsatilla. 

Nux vomica is more suited to men than is Sepia. It cures a draw- 
ing, aching feeling as of a nail driven into the head, or as if the brain 
were dashed to pieces. The face is pale sallow, or sallow on a red 
ground. The attacks commence early in the morning, and generally 
increase to a frantic degree. As under Sepia, the exciting causes may- 
be haemorrhoids, abdominal plethora or brain fatigue. In general,, 
however, the two drugs are very different. 

Arsenicum will cause a throbbing, stupefying headache over the left 
eye. In this particular it resembles Sepia, but the prostration and 
restlessness of the two drugs are very different, as is also the intensity 
of the angry irritability, even to swearing, which Arsenicum induces. 
The Arsenicum headache exceptionally derives a temporary relief from 
the application of cold water to the head. 

Theridion has, more accurately speaking, nickering before the eyes, 
then blurring The nausea of this remedy is made worse by closing 
the eyes, and also by noise. The effect of noise is more intense than 
in Sepia. It seems to intensify the pains, and, as it were, penetrates 
to the teeth, so sensitive are the nerves to this sort of vibration. 

Silicea may be needed after any unwonted exertion, if moderate. 
The pains excite nausea and fainting, and are followed by obscuration 
of vision. 

Sepia is very useful in diseases of the eyes. You will find it indi- 
cated in asthenopia attending uterine diseases. You may differentiate 
Sepia from other remedies by the time of its aggravation, the patient 
generally being worse in the evening; in the morning and afternoon 
she is quite free from symptoms. 
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130 A CLINIC AL MATERIA MEDICA. 

In conjunctivitis you will find Sepia indicated when the inflamma- 
tion is of a sluggish type, occurring generally in scrofulous children. 
The symptoms are subacute. There is muco-purulent discharge in the 
morning. The eyes feel comparatively comfortable during the day, 
while in the evening there is an annoying dryness of the conjunctivae. 

The remaining eye-symptoms of Sepia we may summarize as follows: 
cataract; trachoma, with or without pannus; scaly lids; pustular lids 
with eruptions on the face; eyes irritable to light, lids close in spite of 
him; eyelids droop; aching, sticking pains, worse from rubbing. 
Causes: uterine or liver diseases, scrofula, tea drinking. Worse 
morning and evening, in hot weather; better from cold washing, and 
in the afternoon. 

I have for years employed Sepia in blurring of sight, etc., with pro- 
lapsus uteri. I have likewise found it efficient in asthenopia, associ- 
ated with exhaustion dependent upon loss of semen, whether of volun- 
tary or involuntary occurrence. In these respects the drug is similar 
to Natrum mur. } Lilium tig . , Jaborandi , Kali carb. The first of these 
superadds muscular weakness (internal recti), stiff sensation in the 
muscles of the eyes on moving them, etc. There is running together 
of letters or stitches, but not the sudden vanishing of sight so marked 
in Sepia. 

Lilium tigrinum causes smarting of the eyes; blurring with heat in 
the eyelids and eyes; sharp pains over the left eye; thus symptomati- 
cally resembling Sepia. It has also burning, smarting in the eyes 
after reading, better in the open air, like Pulsatilla. Spasm of accom- 
modation (study Ja borandi). 

Cyclamen and Pulsatilla may also be considered with Sepia in sudden 
vanishing of sight; the first with profuse and dark menses, the second 
with scanty dark flow. But the Cyclamen blindness accompanies a 
semi-lateral headache of the left temple, with pale face, nausea referred 
to the throat, and weak digestion. 

Under Pulsatilla, which you may also use in conjunctivitis, there is 
a discharge of muco-pus, but it is bland and is worse at night, with 
agglutination of the lids in the morning. There are fine granulations 
on the lids. The patient is subject to repeated highly-inflamed styes. 

Graphites you may employ when the canthi crack and bleed, and the 
edges of the lids are pale and swollen as well as scaly. 

Thuja is indicated in eye affections of tea drinkers. Brown, bran- 
like scales accumulate about the cilia, and there are little tarsal tumors 
like warts. 



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Nux vomica will be called for in eye affections associated with liver 
diseases. The symptoms are worse in the morning, and some of them 
are relieved by cold bathing. 

Natrum mur., like Sepia, is indicated in eye affections reflex from 
uterine disease; the lids droop. But under Natrum mur. there is more 
spasmodic closure of the lids in conjunctivitis; the discharges are thin 
and acrid; there are cracks in the canthi and also in the corners of the 
mouth; pains over the eyes are present, worse when looking down. 

Alumiiia likewise has falling of the lids, dryness, burning, dim sight; 
but Alumi?ia has aggravation in the evening and at night. The inner 
canthi are affected. 

Next we shall consider the action of Sepia on the abdominal or- 
gans. It is indicated in the form of dyspepsia mentioned above, and 
also in the dyspepsia incident to uterine diseases, when it is asso- 
ciated with a gone, empty feeling in the epigastrium or the abdomen, 
with sour or bitter taste in the mouth, and with a longing for acids or 
pickles, which seem to relieve these symptoms. The tongue is coated 
white, the bowels are usually constipated, the stools are hard, dry and 
insufficient, or, even if not indurated, they are expelled with difficulty. 
The abdomen is swollen and distended with flatus, and there is almost 
always soreness in the hepatic region. On making a physical explora- 
tion you find the liver enlarged, not from fatty or amyloid degenera- 
tion, but from congestion. 

Haemorrhoids are also an indication for Sepia when there is bleeding 
at stool, with a feeling of fulness in the rectum as though it were dis- 
tended with some foreign material, which seems to excite an urging to 
stool. The urine has a peculiar fcetid odor, and is very turbid. When 
standing it deposits a uric acid sediment, which adheres tenaciously to 
the side of the vessel. 

Lycopodium is a worthy rival of Sepia in the condition just de- 
scribed. The distinction between the two remedies may be given in a 
very few words. 

A sensation of emptiness in the epigastrium is more characteristic 
of Sepia; repletion after eating, of Lycopodium. Indeed, with the last- 
named drug, the repletion overshadows the other symptoms, often ex- 
isting without any alterations in the appearance of the tongue. Sour 
taste and sour or burning eructations are, however, very common. 
The abdomen is in a state of ferment. After eating, the circulation is 
disturbed, with irresistible drowsiness. The urine contains a sediment 



132 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

of free red sand. The bowels are constipated, with urging and 
constriction of the anus. The urine, however, is not so offensive as 
under Sepia. 

Sulphur resembles Sepia in. many respects. Both are suitable in 
torpid cases with defective reaction. There are abdominal plethora, 
congested liver, piles, constipation, hunger about n A. m. ; bitter or 
sour taste; eructations, sour or tasting like bad eggs; fulness from 
little food, etc. In Sulphur the face is more blotched, red, and at 
times spotted. Saliva nauseates him. He vomits food. He craves 
brandy or beer and sweets; but they disagree. He experiences 
hunger at n a. m.; while in Sepia it is more of a gone, faint feeling. 
The constipation is attended with ineffectual urging like Nux vomica. 

For gone, empty feeling in the epigastrium, compare Sepia with 
Calcarea ostrearum, Cocculus, Kali carb., Stannum, Ignatia, Carbo an., 
Sarsaparilla , Niccolum, Oleander, Ipecac, Thea, Slap hi 'sag ria, Actea 
rac. and Hydrastis. 

Cocculus has the weakness extending all over the abdomen and 
chest. It tires her to talk. The feeling is renewed by over-exertion 
and especially by loss of sleep. 

Kali carb. has empty feeling before eating, out of proportion to the 
feeling of vacuity caused by hunger, with undue bloating after eating, 
especially after soup in small quantity. 

Under Stamium, the sensation continues after eating, and extends 
all over the chest. 

With Ignatia, it is attended by sighing. 

Under Carbo animalis, it arises from loss of vital fluids. 

Sarsaparilla has it associated with rumbling in the abdomen. 

Niccolum, without desire for food. 

Oleander, with sensation of distended abdomen; the chest feels 
empty and cold. 

Actea racemosa is excellent when, with the faint, empty feeling in 
the epigastrium, there is a trembling, wavy sensation spreading from 
the stomach over the body. 

Hydrastis relieves when there is sinking sensation, palpitation of 
the heart, and mucus-coated stools. 

Thea produces a gone, faint feeling; sick headache radiating from 
one point, and pains in the left ovary. 



LECTURE XL 

Sepia — {continued) . 

Let us resume our study of Sepia. Going still lower in the abdo- 
men, we find it exhibiting a very marked action on the uterine or- 
gans, causing, as I mentioned the other day, engorgement of the 
uterus with displacement. In a well- advanced Sepia case the uterus 
is enlarged and the cervix is indurated. The organ is either pro- 
lapsed or retroverted. Leucorrhcea is a very prominent symptom, the 
discharge being of a yellowish-green color and somewhat offensive. 
With these objective symptoms we find bearing-down pains in the ab- 
domen and in the small of the back. This is so extensive at times 
that it seems to interfere with breathing. Sometimes the patient 
feels as if everything would be forced out through the vulva. This 
feeling is relieved by sitting with the limbs crossed. With the bear- 
ing down there is associated a backache, referable to the lumbar or 
sacral region. It is decidedly worse when the patient is standing or 
walking. There are burning pains in the uterus, and sometimes 
pains of a sharp character shooting upward; or there may be a sen- 
sation as if the uterus were clutched by a hand, a symptom to be 
found also under Cactus and Lilium tigrinum. The menses are 
usually late and scant} 7 , although exceptionally they may be early and 
profuse. 

The most similar remedy to Sepia is Lilium tigrinu?n, for the prov- 
ings of which we are indebted to Dr. William Payne, of Bath, Maine. 
He was led to make the provings after learning that the flowers of 
this plant had caused convulsions in a child. He thought that it 
might prove to be a valuable remedy in the convulsions of children. 
In his provings he was assisted by Dr. Dunham and a number of 
ladies. He observed convulsions in the course of the provings, but 
in almost every instance some alteration in the functions of the 
uterus and ovaries was noticed. The uterine symptoms of Lilium 
tigrinum are those which often accompany or follow pregnancy and 
labor. It is indicated in cases of subinvolution. The uterus does not 
regain its normal size after confinement and the lochia lasts too long. 
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134 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

The patient complains of a heavy, dragging sensation, principally in the 
hypogastric region. She feels the need of some support to hold up 
the abdominal organs. This is very similar to Sepia. In Sepia, as 
stated, the woman sits with her legs crossed, thus giving an artificial 
support to the uterus. The leucorrhcea, too, is very similar. Under 
Sepia it is yellowish-green or mill^, somewhat foetid, and often ex- 
coriating. Under Lilium I think the most characteristic leucorrhcea 
is watery, yellowish, or yellowish-brown, and excoriating. This ex- 
coriating property of [Jlium is characteristic. The provers of Lilium 
had in two cases prolapsus, and in one, retroversion of the uterus. 
There is urging to urinate under Lilium; when the urine passes it 
causes burning and smarting, the same kind of feeling at the meatus 
urinarius as the leucorrhcea causes at the vulva. Then, too, you will 
find urging to stool; morning diarrhoea, hurrying the patient out of 
bed, the stool being yellow, papescent, and causing an excoriating 
feeling at the anus. Here Lilium rubs against Sulphur, which has 
characteristically early morning diarrhoea. The Lilium symptoms 
are usually worse in the afternoon, while those of Sepia are worse in 
the forenoon. 

Lilium has some chest symptoms which are worthy of note. Pa- 
tients experience a full, crowded feeling in the chest, as though there 
were too much blood there; they want the windows open, as fresh air 
gives them relief. This oppression of the chest is caused by venous 
stasis. With it there is a taste as of blood in the mouth, reminding 
one of Pulsatilla and Hamamelis , both of which have that symptom. 
There is a feeling as of a rivet or a bullet in the mammary region; 
also a feeling of coldness about the heart. Natrum mur. cures this 
last symptom when it appears during mental exertion; Lilium, when 
it occurs as a result of uterine disease. Kali bichromicum , Kali chlora- 
tum, and Carbo animalis also have it and Dr. Richard Hughes reports 
a case in which he cured it with Petroleum. 

" Helonias," according to Dunham, "produces profound melan- 
choly; deep, undefined depression, with a sensation of soreness and 
weight in the womb; ' a consciousness of a womb.' Lilium dulls the 
intellect, produces a sensation of hurry, with debility, and distress 
based on an apprehension of having some fatal or serious malady." 
And, further, Helonias is an excellent remedy when there is a tired, 
aching feeling, and some burning in the back and legs. This is com- 
mon enough with women, and no remedy, unless it is Picric acid, 



sepia. 135 

relieves more promptly. The debility of Helonias is the result of im- 
paired nutrition. Experiments have clearly demonstrated the fact 
that a diminution of red corpuscles and a general impoverishment of 
the blood results from its use. 

Sulphur is often needed to aid Sepia in a chronic case. The comple- 
mentary relation lies in the common power of the two drugs to cor- 
rect abdominal congestion and other vascular irregularities. Some- 
times, when the latter is in use, a- forenoon "goneness" becomes 
marked as an eleven o'clock faint, hungry feeling; or, flushes of heat 
persist. Again, a one-sided headache persistently returns and weakens 
the patient. Piles grow worse. The bearing down becomes continu- 
ous, with a weak feeling in the genitals. Then Sulphuris substituted, 
and improvement is at once noticed. After awhile, however, the 
symptoms shift pointedly Sepia-ward; and so the two alternate. 
Several such cases have been observed. One patient from the West 
was entirely cured with these two drugs, and remains well. She had 
been an invalid for years. 

Murex, also a mollusc, bears a family resemblance to Sepia. The 
provings are, as yet, meagre, but clinical experience has confirmed 
some of the symptoms. Dr. Dunham, and after him, Dr. B. F. Betts, 
have made comparisons between Murex and Sepia which are sufficient 
guides in their differentiation. 

Murex, like its relative, causes uterine congestion, epigastric 
" goneness," cystic irritation, muscular debility, and mental de- 
pression. 

It differs, however, in that it causes sexual excitement; desire so 
violent as to fatigue the reason; venereal desire renewed by the slightest 
touch. 

The secretions are more copious than is usual with Septa. Thus 
the menses are profuse instead of scanty. There is copious urination 
at midnight with pale urine; the patient wakes with a start, and a 
violent desire to urinate. This is not so marked in Sepia. Both, 
however, have intermittent menses. 

Both remedies are useful in affections of the uterine cervix. Murex 
when there is a sensation of soreness, or " a feeling as though some- 
thing was pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis" — (Betts). Lancinat- 
ing pains extending upward to the abdomen or thorax; thick, green 
or bloody leucorrhcea. Murex agrees rather with Lilium and Platina 
in sexual erethism; and with Kreosote in the urinary symptoms. 



136 A CIvINICAIv MATERIA MEDICA. 

Clinically it has been used for polyuria, with frequent urging at 
night. Kreosote has sudden urging; he cannot get out of bed quickly 
enough; he urinates with great haste, and passes a large amount of 
offensive urine. 

Kreosote, moreover, bears some relation to Sepia. Both have inter- 
mittent menstrual flow, dragging downward in the back, and pressure 
outward in the genitals; painful coitus; vomiting of pregnancy; the 
urine deposits a red sediment, and is turbid and offensive. 

But the menses are usually copious. They are accompanied by 
somewhat different reflex symptoms from those belonging to Sepia, 
notably, difficult hearing, with humming and roaring in the head. 
The dragging in the back is relieved by motion, not aggravated as in 
Sepia, and the leucorrhcea is more acrid and irritating; it excoriates 
the parts over which it flows. Sometimes it is yellow, and has the 
odor of fresh green corn. 

This acridity of the leucorrhcea marks clearly the divergence of 
Kreosote from Sepia, as well as from Murex. This led to the employ- 
ment of the drug in cancerous and other ulcerations of the cervix 
uteri. And we now choose it when there are burning, sensitiveness 
and tumefaction of the cervix, with bloody ichorous discharges; sen- 
sitiveness to touch or to coitus; and a putridity, which is foreign to 
the other remedies mentioned. 

Stannum resembles Sepia in simple prolapsus uteri et vaginae, with 
"goneness," bearing down and melancholy. But its characteristic 
is falling of the uterus and vagina during hard stool. Dr Hughes 
writes approvingly of its use in relieving the sensation of bearing 
down so common with womankind, and adds: " I have been astonished 
at its power over prolapsus. It seems to strengthen the uterine liga- 
ments." (Pharmacodynamics, 4th edition). 

Nux vomica agrees with Sepia in causing portal stasis; uterine con- 
gestion; haemorrhoids; urging to stool; backache, worse from motion; 
awakening at 3 a. m. But Nux produces a peculiar irritability of the 
tissues, rendering the patient over-sensitive, while the functions are 
performed fitfully, spasmodically, and inharmoniously. Gastric symp- 
toms predominate and they are just those which result, in a nervous 
person, from abuse of stimulants, highly seasoned food, etc. Thus, 
after a meal the clothing feels uncomfortable; retching predominates 
over actual vomiting. There are nausea, weakness, and a faint feel- 
ing after eating, as if produced by a strong purgative, but never the 



SEPIA. 137 

4 ' goneness ' ' of Sepia or Murex. There is frequent but ineffectual 
urging to stool, not inertia of the rectum. The menses come too early, 
bmt are not very profuse, and are accompanied by more spasmodic 
pains and spasmodic movements in the abdomen than in Sepia, and by 
less steady bearing down and dragging. Nux has one symptom, 
common after lacerated perineum, namely, internal swelling and burn- 
ing of the vagina like a prolapsus. 

Aloe acts on the liver, increases the bile, causes griping in the 
bowels, and diarrhoea. Its action on the bowels and uterus reminds 
one of Sepia, for it causes a determination of blood to the parts, w T ith 
repletion of the veins and consequent irritation. But the relaxation, 
which is expressed in Sepia by dragging and " goneness," with weak- 
ness of the sphincters, is described by the Aloe patient as a more com- 
plete atony — a paresis. It is expressed as heaviness, weight, with 
dragging down. This heaviness belongs to the pelvis, uterus, peri- 
neum, rectum, sacral region and the lower bowels. In fact, it is uni- 
versal, characterizing even the headache; dull headache across 
the forehead, with heaviness in the eyes and nausea — she must make 
the eyes small with the pain — weight on the vertex. That the head- 
aches belong to bowel and uterine affections is proved by the fact that 
they alternate with symptoms of the latter (like Podophyllum'). 

Coupled with heaviness and congestion, there is a weakness of the 
sphincters. The patient feels a lack of confidence in them; she fears 
lest some stool will escape with flatus — the faeces and urine will pass 
together — every time she passes urine, there is a feeling as if some 
thin stool would escape — sudden urging in the morning. 

Aloe, then, is needed when, with uterine congestion and prolapsus, 
there are heaviness in the abdomen and back, and uncertain control of 
the rectum. The woman frequently suffers from loose bowels. With- 
out any warning, she feels faint, with a sensation as if she were about 
to have diarrhoea. If the bowels move, there is more wind than sub- 
stance, and she becomes prostrated and covered with a clammy sweat. 
If she has haemorrhoids, they protrude, and are relieved by cold ap- 
plications. 

Podophyllum suggests itself here. It, too, acts on the liver, causes 
diarrhoea and prolapsus of the uterus and rectum; hollow feeling in 
the epigastrium; pains in the ovaries (right) and down the anterior 
crural nerve; burning in the hypogastrium and sacral region, with re- 
tarded menses. 



138 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

The prolapsus uteri of this remedy, however, is nearest akin to that 
of Stanmim, with bearing down as if the genitals would come out dur- 
ing stool. But in Stannum it is recorded as occurring during hard 
stool; hence Podophyllum causes the more relaxation in the pelvic 
region. 

Podophyllum, it would seem, affects first the stomach and liver, and 
then the uterus and rectum. We find it, therefore, most effective 
when its gastric symptoms concur with those of the uterine region. 
While it resembles Sepia in causing bearing down in the hypogastric 
and sacral regions, relieved by lying down; aching in the ovaries, etc., 
it differs in gastro-hepatic symptoms; fulness, weight, and dragging 
about the liver, soreness, better from rubbing. Diarrhoea only early 
in the morning or during the day; sometimes the passages are wholly 
fsecal, but they are too frequent. Watery, gushing diarrhoea, con- 
tinuing from 3 A. m. into the forenoon. Prolapsus ani before stool. 
After stool a weak, faint feeling in the abdomen, weak rectum and 
prolapsus ani. This weakness resembles Aloe. It is the paresis of a 
violent purgative, not the general relaxation of Sepia. 

Pulsatilla nigricans is very nearly related to Sepia. It cures scanty y 
late menses; bearing down; uterine cramps; backache; fainting; hemi- 
crania; clavus. It is especially suitable for women who are irresolute, 
yielding and lachrymose, or silent, peevish and difficult to please. 
There is anxiety, which seems to come from the epigastrium or from 
the heart, with qualmishness. Anxiety as if in a hot atmosphere; 
also at night, as from heat. The patient is faint, she must have air. 
She is chilly, yet is generally better in the open air; chilly with the 
pains; anaemia; chlorosis. 

The uterine pains of Pulsatilla are cutting and pressing, with a feel- 
ing of heaviness, converging toward the pudenda. The weighty sen- 
sation is compared to that of a stone, and is observed in the hypogas- 
tric and sacral regions. Constrictive, colicky, cramping pains pre- 
dominate; actual bearing down is not so marked. Hence we employ 
it frequently in delayed menses and in labor. It acts fitfully; hence 
the uterine pains come by fits and starts, as does the menstrual flow; 
labor-pains are spasmodic, irregular, and finally end in complete 
inertia. Thus there is want of power from the very beginning, shown 
in the fitful character of the contractions, and in their final utter fail- 
ure. Sepia causes more bearing down with the cramp. If indicated in 
labor, it is when an indurated and unyielding cervix retards progress. 



SEPIA. 139 

There uia3 T be spasmodic contractions of the os and upward-shoot- 
ing pains. Here it favors Gelsemium and Calcarea carb.; while 
Pulsatilla favors Caalophyllum and Sccale. 

In temperament, Pulsatilla is tearful, mild, or peevish, whimsical, 
cross; Sepia is tearful, depressed, but easily irritated and excited, or 
indifferent. 

As already intimated, Sepia is of use in a congested or indurated 
state of the cervix uteri, with soreness and burning. Aurum met., 
Aurum mur. and Aurum mur. natronat. are similar. Gold causes 
hyperemia, but it acts very differently from Sepia. On studying its 
effects one is impressed with the prominence of two sets of associated 
symptoms, namely, nervous excitation and vascular irritation; and 
yet the first no more represents innervation than the second does true 
plethora. They indicate irritable weakness. Hepatic, renal and 
uterine congestion appear to arise secondarily to a cardiac irritation 
with hypersemia. 

The prolonged action of Gold develops a fever not unlike that of 
Mercurius, with profuse sweat, salivation and copious urine. There is 
also a tendency to an overgrowth of fibrous tissue, whence result cir- 
rhoses. The glands, at first stimulated, eventually become enlarged 
and indurated. The periosteum is diseased, and finally the bones be- 
come carious. 

In keeping with these changes are its characteristic symptoms. 
Under its influence the emotions become greatly affected; the patient 
is easily enraged by trifling contradiction; there may be cheerfulness, 
but the most persistent state is one of melancholy and disgust for life, 
with a tendency to suicide She imagines she has lost the affections 
of her friends; the fates are against her; she is no longer fit for this 
world, and she longs to die. She is seized with precordial anxiety 
and tremulous fearfuluess. Rush of blood to the chest develops when 
walking fast or for a long time, with bursting fulness. There is 
bruised pain in the uterine region. She is oversensitive to pain, nerv- 
ous, tremulous, and agitated. The uterus is congested and prolapsed 
by its very weight. Sexual desire is increased. 

While, then, there are congestions, prolapsus and melancholy in 
Aurum, as in Sepia and Murex, the course of the symptoms is differ- 
ent, and the mental symptoms differ especially. In Aurum there is 
melancholy with depression, because of supposed loss of friendship; in 
Sepia there is indifference to friends. Anxiety in the former is 



140 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

precordial; she must move from place to place (as in Arsenicum)-, a 
mere noise makes her anxious. Anxiety in the latter comes, it is true, 
with disturbed circulation, but it is not especially cardiac, and is ac- 
companied by flushes of heat. Both produce weariness of life, with 
desire to die, even amounting to suicidal tendency; Aurum, because 
she has lost the affections of her friends (Talcott); Sepia, from sheer 
loathing of life. 

Platina favors on the one hand Amum, and on the other Sepia. All 
three have weariness of life. Platina, however, has with the weariness, 
a great dread of death, which the patient believes to be near at hand. 
As in Aurum, the Platina patient feels as if she were alone, but she 
has a peculiar state of mind, which finds a physical parallel in her 
power of vision. She is out of sorts with the world, for everything 
seems too narrow. Things in her own home look strange on her re- 
turn after a short absence. Persons are looked down upon as pitiful, 
insignificant and very inferior to her. And similarly, objects about her 
appear S7naller than natural. 

Neither Aurum nor Sepia compares with Platina in the pronounced 
nymphomania and voluptuous irritation of the genitals. The men- 
strual flow in the latter is profuse and clotted instead of scanty. 

Platina and Sepia have uterine cramp, but in the latter it is clutch- 
ing, as if suddenly seized and then released; in the former it is a de- 
cided cramping followed by numbness — a symptom which is universal 
in this remedy. 

The carbons should be compared with Sepia. They come into use 
when induration or ulceration is present, with "venosity," offensive 
excoriating discharges, and with gastric disturbances characterized by 
accumulation and passage of offensive flatus. 

Carbo animalis has proved itself equal, if not superior, to Sepia in 
indurations of the cervix, with burning, tearing pain across the pubes. 
There are labor-like pains in the pelvis and sacrum; the leucorrhoea 
stains yellow; the menses are followed by great weakness, she is so 
weak that she can hardly speak; there is " goneness," not better from 
eating. She desires to be alone; she avoids all conversation; she is 
oppressed with anxiety and orgasms The carbons act on the veins, 
favor offensive flatus, offensive discharges and excoriations, the latter 
being superficial and irregular in outline. Inflammations are sluggish, 
and tend to suppuration or death of the parts, with burning pains, 
great weakness and collapse. 

Carbo a?iimalis causes violent pressing in the back, groins, and 



SEPIA. 141 

thighs during the menses, with unsuccessful urging to eructate. It is 
distinguished from Sepia by a throbbing headache, which follows the 
menses. It has also copper-colored acne on the face. 

Carbo veg. has caused bearing down in the rectum and vagina; the os 
is usually open; there is a feeling of weight in the uterus and right 
ovary; the menses have a strong odor; the leucorrhcea excoriates; the 
genitals are sore in places, and they smart, itch, burn, and are aph- 
thous. Anxiety, with distended veins; a wretched, nervous feeling in 
the uterus, which culminates in the thighs; nervous, fidgety. Mental 
depression before the menses. 

Carbo veg. may cure varicose veins of the genitals, with blueness 
and burning — bluish tumors {Carbo animalis being preferable if they 
are indurated), ulcers or fistulae. The vaginal discharges are excori- 
ating, thin, and ichorous, while in Sepia they are less excoriating and 
are thicker. There is burning across the sacrum, dragging from the 
abdomen to the small of the back. Burning pain deep in the pelvis, 
increasing and decreasing (L,eadam). 

Graphites is an impure carbon which contains traces of iron. It 
combines the offensive secretions, flatulency, and skin symptoms of 
the carbons, with anaemia. 

According to Dunham the onset of the menses is accompanied by a 
variety of accessory symptoms, as with Sepia. 

The remedy is not often required for prolapsus uteri, but it is clear- 
ly indicated when there is a feeling as if the womb would press out 
the vagina; the patient complains of a heavy load in the abdomen, and 
of lancinating-like electric shocks down the thighs (Leadam). 

The leucorrhcea is profuse, coming in gushes, and is excoriating. 
The remedy affects the ovaries more decidedly than does Sepia; the 
left ovary is indurated and swollen, and pains are felt when the parts 
are touched. 

Like Sepia- it causes the nipples to inflame and crack. It is very 
useful to soften or remove cicatricial tissue in the mammae (like Phyto- 
lacca ) . 

But Graphites is best adapted to women who are anaemic, though 
obese, who are constantly cold, constipated, and subject to a rough, 
herpetic condition of the skin. The eruptions are moist, and the 
sweat is offensive, as in Sepia, but glueyness of the secretions is well- 
marked only in Graphites. The skin grows hard, cracks and bleeds. 
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Graphites, by virtue of its effect upon cicatricial tissue and indura- 
tions, ought to prove useful for softening the cervix, when, as is often 
the case, a laceration has remained unhealed, acting as a source of 
irritation. 

Natrum carbonicum and other soda salts are complementary to 
Sepia. 

The carbonate is needed when there is bearing down as if all would 
come out. The patient is melancholy, apprehensive and over-sensi- 
tive to music. There is backache very much like that of Sepia; heavi- 
ness, worse sitting, better moving; bruised pain over the back at 
night, tension, boring from the tip of the left scapula forward through 
the chest. The skin is dry and rough. 

Clinically, it has served when the cervix is enlarged, with ill-shaped 
os. Dr. Betts has had good results with it in congenital defective 
growth of the anterior vaginal wall, and this ill-shaped os. 

Natrum muriaticum is suited to anaemic women, with thin worn face 
and general emaciation. They are melancholy; easily angered; suffer 
from nervous weakness, with palpitation, trembling, anxiety, and pre- 
dominant chilliness; inclined to sweat; sweat in the axillae with chilli- 
ness over the back; prolapsus uteri; cramps, scanty menses, urine with 
red sediment; painful coitus. It therefore resembles both Pulsatilla 
and Sepia. But consolation aggravates {Pulsatilla is easily pacified, 
and rather seeks consolation); the headaches are congestive, pseudo- 
plethoric, with bursting pains, worse from the least motion, even of 
the eyeballs; the mucous membranes smart as under Sepia, but there 
is an abnormal dryness; thus, the tongue feels dry, the eyelids are dry, 
the rectum feels dry and smarts, etc. With this dryness there is a 
tendency to erosions, with smarting burning; thus the tongue is sore 
and ulcerated; the gums are sore and bleed. The skin is unnaturally 
dry. The prolapsus uteri is worse in the morning; she must sit down 
to prevent it, with backache, which is relieved by lying on the back. 
She complains of tension in the hypogastric and inguinal regions as if 
the skin were tight {Apis). There is greenish leucorrhcea with smart- 
ing and a feeling of dryness. Cutting in the urethra, which is most 
marked after urination. Menses scanty, or scanty a day or two and 
then copious. 

Natrum hypochlorosum differs somewhat from its congeners. Ac- 
cording to the prover, Dr. R. T. Cooper, it is useful in debilitated 
persons, of lax fibre and rather sluggish mentally and physically. 



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The debility is accompanied by emaciation, nervous exhaustion and 
other evidences of deep-seated changes in the organism. There are 
vertigo with falling, associated with aching across the forehead and 
uterine bearing down; swimming feeling as if the top of the cranium 
were about to float off. Pains across the forehead and eyes or on the 
vertex, with uterine symptoms. The brain feels paralyzed, also the 
limbs; the fingers feel numb; fainting spells. The tongue is large, 
and takes the imprint of the teeth; flatulency, constipation, bloating 
after meals, flatulent asthma — all indicating abdominal plethora. 

These symptoms are met with in connection with uterine diseases. 
Black clotted menses; sleepiness; dark circles around the eyes. Bear- 
ing down in the uterus, which may be congested, enlarged and sensi- 
tive; constant oozing of blood, worse from any exertion. The womb 
feels as if it opened and shut, thus not precisely the clutching and re- 
laxing of Sepia. She feels as if the womb were pushed up when she 
sits down (a symptom of Ferriim iod. also). Swelling low down in 
the abdomen, going up to the chest, and causing dyspnoea, worse after 
eating. A weight seems to fall from the chest to the abdomen, with 
aching on the top of the head. Swelling in the left ovarian region at 
the menstrual period. The drug appears to cause the prolapsed 
uterus to rise into its place, reminding one of the experiments of Dr. 
Jackson with Sepia. Pruritus; weak feeling about the chest; easily 
overcome with heat. The latter is also a symptom of Sepia, as well as 
of Nat rum mur. and Natrum carb. 

Actea racemosa is invaluable in the treatment of women. It is espe- 
cially adapted to those who are predisposed to muscular rheumatism 
and myalgia. It causes hypersemia of the brain and cord, and even 
inflammation in the cervical and dorsal spine. Hence come its 
occipital pains, lightning-like pains, delirium, etc. (see below). Here 
it resembles Absinthe, Abrotanum, and Gelsemium; the last named 
remedy, however, has more drowsiness and muscular paresis with less 
excitement. Sepia also causes fulness of the spinal vessels, but it is 
less marked than in Actea, more passive, more torpid. The sensory 
nerves are excited in Actea, while, at the same time, they are weak, 
like the motor nerves and the muscles. The heart acts feebly and 
nervously, the pulse is either very quick and feeble or slow and inter- 
mittent. With this there is scanty urine, depositing a red or } T ellow 
sediment. There is a general feeling of uneasiness, restlessness and 
fidgets; or tremors, nervous chills. The muscles feel sore, bruised and 



144 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

stiff; there are severe myalgic pains, with numb feeling. The pains 
are violent and dart like lightning. Phillips recommends it even for 
anasarca, with the above condition of heart and urinary secretion, 
" even when Digitalis failed." 

Actea, then, is preeminently a remedy for "irritable weakness." 
As with Sepia, there are nervousness, restlessness, melancholy, scanty 
menses with bearing down, etc. But Actea produces a more decided 
nervous excitement, amounting to delirium, with hallucinations of 
rats, etc. ; it develops an overwhelming apprehensiveness — without ap- 
parent cause — which the patient cannot overcome, and which reduces 
her to despair. In her excited state she feels as if the top of her head 
would fly off, and she would go crazy. She becomes suspicious, irri- 
table and is dizzy, as if intoxicated. All these symptoms form a part 
of the general nervous state, which depends upon an irritated condi- 
tion of the uterus and ovaries; or is, at least, perpetuated thereby. 
The disturbed state of the uterus seems to be based upon a rheumatic 
diathesis. She suffers more from neuralgia than the Sepia patient; 
dull aching from the occiput to the vertex; aching soreness in the eye- 
balls, sharp pains thence to the vertex, with red, congested eyes — all 
associated with flexed or irritable uterus. Very important, too, are 
neuralgic pains in and about the latter organ; the uterus is sensitive 
to touch, pains shoot across from side to side; there is bearing down, 
with tightness around the hips; scanty menses, with pain continuing 
after the flow begins. The epigastric faintness is not quite the ' ' gone- 
ness " of Sepia. It is accompanied by nervousness; tremors; waves 
spreading from the epigastrium all over; a feeling as if frightened. 
Sepia may be needed in asthenopia, reflex from the uterus; Actea 
rather in hyperesthesia of the retina or in ciliary neuralgia, reflex 
from the uterus. Both are very useful at the climacteric; Sepia for 
the flushes of heat; Actea, according to Hughes, for irritability, pain 
at the vertex, and sinking at the stomach. 

Kali fei'rocyanidum has relieved bearing down; pus-like leucorrhcea, 
profuse but not irritating; sadness even to tears; sinking sensation at 
the epigastrium; passive uterine haemorrhages with consequent de- 
bility (Bell, McClatchey). 

But these effects ought not to be confounded with those of Sepia. 
For the drug is an intense poison, acting on the muscles and heart, 
etc. The epigastric sinking is connected with weakened heart, the 
heart-beats becoming diminished in number and force, with consequent 



SEPIA. 145 

coldness, sinking, vertigo, numbness and tremors. The remedy, then, 
suits debilitated cases in which the heart is failing. It is closely- 
allied to Kalicarb. in weak heart. 

Calcarea ostrearum causes a pressure in the lower abdomen on phy- 
sical exertion. Bearing down, worse standing; aching in the thighs. 
Sore pain, tension when standing erect or bending backward. Stinging 
in the cervix; stitches. But the menses are profuse and too early, 
and the general symptoms are, as is well known, very different from 
those of Sepia. 

Calcarea phosphorica (like Phosphorus) produces a weak, sinking 
feeling in the hypogastrium; empty sinking sensation at the epigas- 
trium. The uterine prolapsus is worse during stool or micturition,, 
with a sense of weakness and distress. Aching in the uterus. Cut- 
ting through to the sacrum. Cream-like leucorrhoea. Burning in 
the vagina, with pain on both sides of the bladder and uterus. Burn- 
ing like fire up into the chest. Flushes of heat, anxiety, faintness,. 
debility; she sweats easily. 

But the menses are profuse and there is sexual excitement. She is 
weak and emaciated, perhaps tuberculous; she suffers from partial 
profuse sweats, but they are not offensive as in Sepia. Every ex- 
posure increases her rheumatic pains, and, with these, her distress in 
the uterus. 

Among the remaining remedies I may briefly refer to the following: 

Mitchella repens has engorged, dark red, swollen cervix. This is as- 
sociated with an irritation at the neck of the bladder, with urging to 
urinate. There are, however, no general resemblances to Sepia. The 
remedy is rather to be classed with Eupatorium purpureum in vesical 
irritability in women (Hughes); with Hydrocotyle in irritation of the 
neck of the bladder, with heat and itching of the vagina and red cervix 
uteri (confirmed by Dr. Mitchell); with Vespain ulcers around the os; 
and with Apis in dysuria. 

Sepia ought not to be confounded with Secale cornutum or Ustilago; 
for although the three cause bearing down, congestion, aching dis- 
tress, and prolapsus uteri, the conditions are quite different. The 
last two act on the muscular coat of the bloodvessels and on in- 
voluntary muscular fibres in general. Secondarily, from undue re- 
laxation, they favor tumefaction and passive haemorrhages. Their 
"bearing down" is prolonged, and marked (like Caulophyllum) . 
Ustilago has relieved uterine haemorrhage; also vomiting of blood in a 
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146 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

lady with uterine disease; passive flow of blood; the examining finger 
detects a soft, patulous cervix, and is stained with blood (Woodbury). 

Viburnum opulus has caused and cured pains, occurring as in Sepia, 
around the pelvis and uterine region; also " goneness; " empty feeling 
at the stomach; bearing down; nervousness. But the bearing down 
is much more violent, and culminates in the uterus in intense cramp; 
thus favoring Caulophyllum, Actea rac., Secale, etc., rather than Sepia. 

Inula and Hedeoma have been proved, but clinical experience is 
wanting. Iyike Sepia, they cause uterine pains and bearing down; 
the first, dragging in the genitals and spine; urging to stool and to 
micturition; the second, bearing down with great weakness in the legs. 

Sepia, in a few instances, has relieved choreic symptoms; sudden 
jerking of the head backward and forward; twisting pain in the 
stomach rising to the throat. 

Among similar remedies we should not forget to include Zizia. It 
causes an increase of blood in the uterus, with backache, smarting, 
burning in the back, spasmodic movements of the face and limbs. 
The mind is at first exhilarated, then depressed, and finally a state of 
indifference obtains. The most marked characteristic, however, is 
restless, choreic movements, worse during sleep. 

When prolapsus uteri is a symptom of general defective nutrition, 
with little or no local congestion, Sepia yields to Aletris, Caulophyllum, 
Abies Canadensis, Lac defloratum, Calcarea phos., Natrum mur., 
Helonias, Natrum hypochlor. 

In threatened abortion, Sepia is indicated not so much by the pains 
as by the evidence of disturbed circulation. This, together with irri- 
table nerves and laxness of tissue, makes up the cause of the impend- 
ing catastrophe. It will be noticed that there are, or there have been, 
fulness and pressure of blood to the head and chest, feeling of heaviness 
in the abdomen, flushes of heat, with faintness and momentary at- 
tacks of blindness — observed especially when the patient is in a warm 
or close room, kneeling in church, when using the eyes steadily, etc. 
A common attendant, clearly expressive of the nature of the Sepia 
case, is the excellent keynote of Dr. H. N. Guernsey: sense of weight 
in the anus like a heavy ball. 

This last symptom is unique, differing materially from the urging 
of Nux and Sulphur, the pressure of Lilium, and the fulness and 
weight of Aloe. The latter has also a sensation of a plug wedged in 
between the symphysis pubis and os coccygis. 



LECTURE XII. 

NOSODES. 

This class of remedies, as I have already intimated in my introduc- 
tory lecture, consists of disease products. Many of them have been 
demonstrated to possess medicinal properties, and hence they are use- 
ful in the treatment of diseases of the human frame. The field here 
is certainly an immense one. As yet, we hardly know the commence- 
ment of our labors in this direction. I think that the time will come, 
when the medicines composing the group, will prove themselves to be 
of immense service in the treatment of chronic diseases. Some of the 
nosodes have been derived from the diseases of animals, others from 
those of plants. 

Great objections have been made to the nosodes as remedies in 
homoeopathic practice. It is well that you should understand the 
prejudices which you will meet, both among the laity and in the pro- 
fession. Objections have been made to Psorinum, which you know is 
obtained from the itch eruption and also to Syphilinum^ the syphilitic 
poison, on the ground that they are nasty and filthy. This objection 
is certainly absurd, because nobody would for one minute entertain 
the idea of administering these substances in a low potency; and this 
being the case, no one will maintain that there is anything nasty or 
disagreeable to one's feelings in administering to a patient Psorinum y 
for instance, in the two hundredth attenuation. 

Another objection that has been raised against the nosodes, and one 
which apparently carries some weight with it, is, that the use of these 
substances interferes with the progress of Homoeopathy by confusing 
it with Isopathy. We may reason as much as we will, but we must 
always keep in view the facts of the case. We must fall back on the 
tribunal before which all our prescriptions must go, and that is expe- 
rience. Now, I do not know how far I should care to go into these 
nosodes. Correctly applied, they are not isopathic remedies. What 
I call pure Isopathy is the practice proposed by Dr. S. Swan, of New 
York. For example, if a patient is so constituted that he cannot eat 
strawberries without being made ill thereby, Dr. Swan potentizes the 
strawberry and administers it to the patient and claims that thus the 



I48 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

idiosyncrasy is destroyed. Isopathy rests on the bold assertion that 
what causes disease will cure it when administered in a high potency. 
The use of the nosodes in homoeopathic practice differs from this be- 
cause in Homoeopathy we start with an experimental fact. We have 
taken these substances, proved them on the healthy, and have admin- 
istered them at the bedside. We have found them efficacious, there- 
fore we have the same right to claim them as medicines as we have 
any molecular substance. We will now proceed with their symptom- 
atology, beginning first with 

Psorinum. 

Psorinum has been sufficiently proved to enable us to use it success- 
fully in the treatment of disease. We find it especially indicated in 
constitutions which are psoric (to use Hahnemann's word), inpatients 
who are subject to glandular and cutaneous affections, and who do not 
react to the apparently well-chosen remedy. Suppose, for example, 
that the remedy suited to the case is Pulsatilla. The symptoms seem 
to call for it. The prescription is in accord with every rule of Insti- 
tutes, and yet relief is but transient. In such a case ; there is some 
dyscrasia underlying the disease, and this must be removed or modi- 
fied before it will be possible to cope successfully with the disease. 
Again, in certain cases of scarlatina your prescriptions avail noth- 
ing, and the little ones die. Many of these cases could be saved 
if we investigated this branch of our materia medica more thoroughly. 
The various constitutions or dyscrasiae underlying chronic and acute 
affections are, indeed, very numerous. As yet, we do not know them 
all. We do know that one of them is due to gonorrhoea. This dis- 
ease is so frightfully common, that patients with a dyscrasia arising 
from it are very rapidly increasing. Now I want to tell you why this 
is so. It is because allopathic physicians, and many homoeopaths as 
well, do not properly cure it. Gonorrhoea is not a local disease, and, 
if it is not properly cured, a constitutional dyscrasia is developed, 
which may be transmitted to the offspring. I know, from years of 
experience and observation, that gonorrhoea is a serious difficulty, 
and one, too, that complicates many of the cases that we have to treat. 
The same is true, in a modified degree, of syphilis. Gonorrhoea seems 
to attack the nobler tissues, the lungs, the heart and the nervous sys- 
tem, all of which are reached by syphilis only after the lapse of years. 

To return from this digression. Psorinum, like Sulphur, is to be 



NOSODES. 149 

thought of in cases where there is a decided psoric taint, and the well- 
chosen remedy refuses to act. Let us look at some of the symptoms, 
and note the way that Psorinum affects the tissues. It causes an erup- 
tion on the skin, usually herpetic in character, and accompanied by 
great itching. This itching is intolerably worse as soon as the patient 
gets warm in bed. By and by you will observe that the skin has a 
dirty, dingy look, as though the patient had never washed himself 
(which may indeed be the case). In some places the skin has a coarse 
look, as though bathed in oil. The sebaceous secretion is excessive. 
In children the eruption is especially noticeable about the head. It may 
involve the whole scalp, but it spreads characteristically from the scalp 
down either side of the face, involving the cheeks and ears, like tinia 
capitis, which in fact it is. This eruption is, at times, moist, and 
oozes a matter which is very offensive. At other times it is dry, fur- 
furaceous, as it is then called, and may disappear in the summer, only 
to reappear when cold weather sets in. There is usually associated 
with these skin symptoms an otorrhcea, which is thin, ichorous, and 
horribly offensive, having an odor like that of rotten meat. Ulcers 
appear on the legs, usually about the tibia or around the ankles or 
other joints. These ulcers have but this to characterize them, they 
are slow to heal; they are indolent. I may also observe here, that the 
herpetic and itching eruptions just referred to are apt to appear in the 
bends of joints, in the bends of the elbows, and in the popliteal spaces. 
The child is pale, sickly and greatly emaciated. The entire surface of 
the body emits an offensive odor, which persists despite the most care- 
ful washing. This comes from defective action of the cutaneous 
glands. They do not properly eliminate, and consequently the dis- 
charges remain and undergo decomposition and give off this odor, 
which can never be cured until the child's skin is cured. 

In summer time these children are very apt to have cholera infan- 
tum. There is no remedy that replaces Psorinum in its range of 
symptoms in this disease. The children are apt to be nervous and 
restless at night as a precursory symptom to the cholera infantum. 
They awake at night as if frightened, or they cry out during sleep; 
then, two or three nights afterward, they begin with diarrhoea; the 
stools are profuse and watery, dark brown or even black in color, very 
offensive, almost putrid in odor, worse at night, or driving the patient 
out of bed early in the morning. 

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150 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

throbbing pains in the head, preceded by flickering, dimness of vision 
or spots before the eyes, and accompanied by hunger. Sometimes the 
patient is inordinately hungry the day before the attack. This hun- 
gry feeling is a frequent concomitant of Psorinum complaints. Canine 
hunger preceding an attack of diarrhoea. Hunger at night, must get 
up and eat something, like Phosphorus and China, a condition some- 
times met with in pregnancy. 

We also find Psorinum indicated in the bad effects of suppressed 
itch. This disease is produced, you know, by the itch insect. You 
are justified in using as a local application anything that will kill the 
insect but not suppress the disease. Such an application you have in 
Oil of lavender, which kills both the insects and their ova. When itch 
has been suppressed, Psorinum is an excellent remedy to develop it; 
usually, too, it will cure the disease after its redevelopment. 

Psorinum is also useful when pustules or boils remain after itch has 
been cured by some other remedy. 

There is another use that may be made of Psorinum, which I have 
not mentioned, but which is as important as any other. Sometimes, 
after acute or violent diseases, we find the patient greatly prostrated. 
For instance, after typhoid fever he is depressed in mind, weak in 
body, low-spirited, hopeless of recovery, and yet you know that there 
is no absolute certainty that the patient cannot get well; that there 
are no organic lesions remaining. He has weakening night-sweats. 
Perhaps Sulphur has been given without result. In such cases Psori- 
num is the remedy. 

Here you may also consider China or Cinchona, which is an excel- 
lent remedy for rapid exhaustion following acute diseases, especially 
when there has been loss of blood, protracted or profuse diarrhoea, or 
profuse sweat. It is similar to Psorinum in the night-sweat; but the 
latter is the remedy when there is the mental state just described — 
the despair of recovery. 

Laurocerasus is to be thought of when there is lack of reaction, espe- 
cially in chest troubles. 

Capsicum is indicated in lack of reaction occurring in persons of lax 
fibre. 

Opium is a very superior remedy in these cases when the patient is 
stupid and drowsy. 

Valerian, Moschus and Ambra grisea are to be used in nervous affec- 
tions when the apparently well-chosen remedy fails. 



NOSODES. 151 

Carbo veg. is indicated in cases of abdominal disease when there is 
great coldness of the body. The breath is cold, and the pulse rapid. 

Psorinum is very similar, as you see, to Sulphur. It complements 
that remedy. It is inimical to Lachesis, and is antidoted by Coffea. 

Ambra Grisea. 

Ambra grisea is supposed to be a disease-product derived from the 
whale. It has a decided medicinal action, and, like all substances 
having a strong odor, it acts prominently upon the nervous system. 
Unless there are some nervous symptoms present in the case, you can 
hardly expect it to do good service. Ambra affects the cerebro-spinal 
nervous system, causing spasmodic symptoms here and there over the 
body. The muscles of the face twitch. It may also be used in sleep- 
lessness arising from worriment of mind, as from business troubles. 
The patient may, in these cases, retire to bed feeling tolerably tired, 
yet as soon as his head touches the pillow he becomes wakeful. Such 
a case as that frequently yields to Ambra. This remedy is particu- 
larly indicated in thin, spare men, who have a decidedly nervous tem- 
perament, in whom nervousness predominates at the expense of nutri- 
tion. It is particularly indicated for the nervous complaints of old 
people, especially when the} 7 are forgetful and cannot remember the 
simplest facts. Vertigo comes on when the patient moves about, and 
the legs are unsteady; he totters when he walks. He has numbness 
of the feet and tingling in the limbs. The limbs go to sleep readily. 
These symptoms show you that there is either functional or organic 
weakness of the cerebro-spinal nervous system. We may use the drug 
in cases of softening of the brain and spinal cord, whether of senile 
origin or not. 

There is another use we may make of Ambra grisea. It is a very 
quick-acting remedy. We may, therefore, give it in nervous diseases 
when there is defective reaction. We have already learned of a 
similar use of Psori?ium; under the latter remedy, the defective reac- 
tion arises from constitutional taint. But under Ambra grisea it arises 
from nervous weakness. We find many such cases, particularly 
among men. 

We may use Ambra for cough which is worse when strangers are 
in the room, or under any other circumstances which would tend to 
excite the nervous system. It is then a cough that is reflex from 
mental influences. In these cases, it is exactly similar to Phosphorus. 



152 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

Ambra is also indicated for cough, whether whooping-cough or not, 
when the cough is followed by eructations of wind from the stomach. 
There are not many remedies that will cure this symptom. Ambra 
grisea is one of the best; others are Sulphuric acid y Ar?iica } Sangui- 
naria and Veratrum album. Sometimes the eructations come during 
the cough, which is usually a very annoying and painful symptom. 
Here Ambra coincides with Arsenicum, Cimex, Lachesis and Angustura. 
We may use Ambra in asthma when it is accompanied by cardiac 
symptoms, oppression of breathing, and a feeling as of a load or lump 
in the left chest and fluttering in the region of the heart. This comes 
probably from a constrictive feeling there, not as if a hand were grasp- 
ing the heart, but as if something in the left side of the chest were 
squeezed up in a lump. It is usually accompanied by palpitation of 
the heart. 

Ambra grisea acts markedly on the female genital organs, its action 
here being important and quite unique. It causes atony of the uterus. 
The menses are regular as to time or they come a few days too early, 
but they are very profuse, and are accompanied by nosebleed and by 
an increase in the varicose veins on the legs, if such a condition is 
present. There is a discharge of blood between the periods. Any 
little excitement or extra effort, such as straining at stool, brings on a 
vaginal discharge of blood, showing how engorged is the uterus and 
how relaxed and weak the tissues. The leucorrhcea consists princi- 
pally of mucus, which has a bluish or bluish-gray tinge to it. 

You may also use Ambra during the lying-in period, especially 
when constipation is severe. It is suited to those nervous women who 
are thin and scrawny-looking, who have frequent ineffectual urging to 
stool accompanied by great anxiety and restlessness, and inability to 
pass stool while the nurse or any one else is in the room. 



LECTURE XIII. 

SECALE CORNUTUM. 

Secale cornutum is commonly called "spurred rye." Ergot, a term 
borrowed from the French, is the name of the drug in the old school 
pharmacopoeia. The drug is not obtained from the rye itself, but 
from a fungous growth which attacks the grain, probably when it is 
very young. 

Secale cornutum, or Ergot, has long been used in the dominant 
school on account of its well-known property of producing contraction 
of non-striated muscular fibres when given in appreciable doses. It 
exerts this action particularly on those involuntary muscular fibres 
which have a circular or transverse direction. I believe that it does 
this through an influence exerted over the vaso-motor nerves, and 
that all its symptoms are explainable on this ground. In the first 
place, the effects of Secale may be divided into two sets, those referable 
to the circulation, and those referable directly to the nervous system. 
We shall consider the last-named first. We find Ergot producing a 
peculiar type of convulsions, which constitute a prominent symptom 
of Ergotism, a condition of chronic poisoning produced by Ergot. 
Ergotism is not at all uncommon on the continent of Europe, especial- 
ly in some of the provinces of Germany, where the farmers grow a 
great deal of rye. Rye is the principal grain, and thus Ergot poison- 
ing is frequent. Of late years, by exercising more care, the number 
of cases of Ergotism has lessened. Eet us now return from this little 
digression and describe the character of the convulsions. 

At times the body is rigid and at others the rigidity alternates with 
relaxation; particularly is this noticed in the fingers. The hands are 
clenched, or the fingers are spread wide apart. The facial muscles 
twitch. Twitching commences in the face and spreads over the whole 
body. The abdomen is drawn in by the contraction of the musculi 
recti abdominales. There is suppression of urine, and at the same 
time retention from spasmodic contraction of the neck of the bladder. 
By the use of the catheter a small amount of prune- juice-like fluid 
may be obtained. There is a great deal of spasmodic retching, but 
not much real vomiting. The stomach is violently contracted. 



154 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Coming now to the action of Secale on the circulation, we find that 
the symptoms referred to disordered circulation are traceable to the 
action of the drug on the involuntary muscular fibres of the blood- 
vessels. The first effect is one of contraction, while the secondary 
action produces a dilatation. The fingers look bluish-black, as though 
the blood had settled there. The skin is wrinkled and dry. After a 
time sloughing of the whole or part of the limb results. Now, the 
explanation of this is as follows: there has been a prolonged contrac- 
tion of the capillaries, interfering with the circulation, and bringing 
about a stasis of blood. Thus local nutrition is deranged and the part 
in consequence dies. This action of Secale has led to its use in dry 
gangrene, especially of the toes in old people. 

Coming next to the uterus as a muscular organ containing non- 
striated muscular fibres, we find that Ergot produces marked contrac- 
tion of this viscus, acting more on the pregnant than on the non-preg- 
nant uterus, more upon the uterus of parous than of nulliparous 
women. The more the uterine muscular fibres are multiplied the 
more powerful is the action of Ergot. What symptoms does the drug 
produce ? You know that it has been used to bring on contraction of 
the uterus, to cause abortion, to hasten the expulsion of the foetus 
when abortion is inevitable, to increase labor-pains, to expel the after- 
birth, and in fact whenever it is desirable to create uterine contrac- 
tions. One of its characteristic symptoms is prolonged but ineffectual 
uterine pains. Another, which you will sometimes notice in cases of 
retained placenta, is hour-glass contraction of the uterus. This 
peculiar contraction prevents the expulsion of the placenta. You may 
remove the after-birth by the aid of the hand, but the safer plan is to 
give a few doses of Secale. 

Secale may also be used in thin and scrawny women, with dry, 
harsh, shrivelled skins, and sallow faces, who are very weak in labor. 
The labor-pains seem to be entirely wanting. The uterus is as flabby 
as though it were merely mucous membrane, instead of a muscular 
organ. At other times the woman will complain of a sort of prolonged 
bearing down feeling in the abdomen and the sacral region. 

Ergot affects the blood itself; it seems to lessen the coagulating 
function of that fluid. Hence it will cause haemorrhages, which are 
dark, thin and persistent; haemorrhage from the uterus or from any 
of the cavities of the body. You may give it in uterine haemorrhage 
when the flow is passive, dark in color and, it may be, offensive. The 



SECALE CORNUTUM. 155 

woman may be reduced to such an extent that she is almost exsangui- 
nated and lies unconscious and cold. Before losing consciousness she 
complains of tingling all over the body, and requests the attendants to 
rub her limbs. Formication is the best word to describe this tingling 
sensation under Secale. She constantly holds her fingers spread 
asunder. This symptom seems to bother her even more than the 
haemorrhage itself. In such cases Secale is the remedy. 

Again, we may use Secale in retained placenta, when it arises, not 
from hour-glass contraction of the uterus (although this condition 
may obtain), but after miscarriage, especially that occurring during 
the early months of pregnancy. The discharge corresponding to the 
lochia is offensive. The patient is cold and often almost pulseless, 
from loss of blood; the uterine contractions are very imperfect, or else 
there is prolonged tonic contraction. In such cases, Secale is further 
indicated by its mental symptoms. The patient has mania, during 
which she laughs, claps her hands over her head, in fact, seems to be 
beside herself. 

Secale acts very prominently on the gastro-enteric organs. It pro- 
duces a picture very much like that of cholera, and will be found use- 
ful whether it be cholera infantum, cholera morbus, or cholera 
Asiatica. It is indicated when the patient is cold and almost pulse- 
less, with spasmodic twitching of the muscles in various parts of the 
body; the spreading asunder of the fingers is especially noticeable. 
The eyes are sunken, and the features pinched. There is a great deal 
of spasmodic retching, although not much vomiting. The surface of 
the body is harsh, shrivelled, and dry, as though there were no moist- 
ure left in the system. The urine is suppressed. There is tingling 
or formication all over the body. The stools are profuse and watery, 
and are ejected with great violence. The patient, though cold, cannot 
bear to be covered. 

In cholera infantum Secale is indicated more particularly by profuse 
undigested stools, which are watery and very offensive, are discharged 
by fits and starts, and are followed by intense prostration. Now, 
Secale must be separated from the remedies that are similar to it, or 
you cannot use it to the best advantage. 

It has been observed in the case of a manufactory in which sub- 
stances containing arsenic were made, that the fumes of the arsenic 
destroyed all the surrounding vegetation with the exception of the 
rye, which grew more luxuriantly under the fumes of this factory 



156 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

thau it did in other localities. When we come to study the medici- 
nal effects of Secale and Arsenicum we ,find that they have many 
symptoms in common. Both produce shrivelling of the tissues, both 
produce gangrene, both produce choleraic symptoms, and they follow 
each other well. The following few distinctions are sufficient: in 
the first place, the Arse?iicum gangrene and almost all of its other 
symptoms are worse from cold and better from warmth. The patient 
wants to be wrapped up warmly. The Secale patient finds relief from 
cold. The same is true of ulcers. If you have an indolent ulcer, with 
burning pains and discharge of an ichorous offensive pus, you almost 
always think of Arsenicum. Yet Secale is the remedy if there is relief 
from cold. 

In cholera, both remedies have profuse, offensive, watery stools, 
which are very exhausting. Arsenicum lacks the tingling which is al- 
most always present when Secale is the remedy. Arsenicum has more 
restlessness, anxiety, anxious tossing about and irritability of fibre. 
The patient wants to be warmly wrapped, while the Secale patient 
wants to be cool. 

During the stage of collapse, Secale is indicated by the symptoms I 
have mentioned. Here, it is very similar to Carbo veg. The latter 
remedy is indicated when the prostration is so great that the patient 
lies quiet, too weak to move, with passive haemorrhage from the nose, 
and, perhaps, from the bowels as well. The body is cold, especially 
from the feet to the knees. The pulse is rapid, almost threadlike, and 
the breath is cold. In such alarming cases Carbo veg. may sometimes 
save the patient's life. 

Another similar remedy, Camphor, is to be used in preference to 
Secale, Arsenicum, or Carbo veg. in cholera, when the system is over- 
whelmed by the suddenness or violence of the poison, before there is 
any vomiting or diarrhoea, and when the prostration is intense and the 
body is as cold as ice. The voice is squeaky or husky. Camphor is 
here used in the mother tincture, a few drops in water, and a dose 
given every fifteen minutes until the reaction takes place, when some 
other remedy may be needed. 

Veratrum album resembles Secale in the coldness and blueness of 
the surface, with profuse watery stools; but it differs in one symptom, 
namely, the cold sweat on the forehead. None of the remedies just 
mentioned have this symptom except Arsenicum, and under this 
remedy the restlessness is greater than under Veratrum, while the cold 
sweat on the forehead is less marked. 



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In the uterine symptoms, haemorrhages, etc. , we have to remember 
some remedies that are closely allied to Secale. I may incidentally 
mention Carbo veg. here as a remedy similar to Secale in persistent 
epistaxis. The bleeding continues day after day, apparently not de- 
creasing in the least, the blood being dark and non-coagulable. You 
must distinguish between the two remedies by their other character- 
istic symptoms. 

Ustilago is to be remembered as a companion of Secale. It is a 
fungus which grows on corn and is similar in action to Ergot. Care- 
ful chemical analysis shows that it contains Ergotin just as does Secale. 
Ustilago may be used in haemorrhages somewhat different in character 
from those of Secale. The haemorrhages in which it is most effective 
are those from the uterus, when the flow is bright red, partly fluid, 
and partly clotted. With this condition present you may use Ustilago, 
whether the haemorrhage occur at the climaxis or during labor, 
abortion, or menstruation. Unlike Secale, this remedy causes passive 
congestion of the uterus. It is especially indicated when the slight 
manipulation necessary for a digital examination causes oozing of 
blood. Another condition for which it is the remedy is menorrhagia 
from retroflexion of the uterus. I have generally used it in the sixth 
potency. It seems to give tone to the uterus, so that the organ no 
longer feels soft and spongy to the examining finger. The circula- 
tion through the uterus is improved, and bleeding takes place less 
readily. 

We have two or three other remedies useful in these cases of en- 
gorged uterus, and as this condition is so difficult to cure I will give 
them to you here. 

One of them is Bovista, the puff-ball. When this plant is mature, 
the envelope of the ball bursts, and there is ejected from the cavity a 
brownish powder, which consists of the spores of the plant. This, 
when applied to the skin, produces an eruption resembling herpes, 
which bleeds readily. Bovista affects the circulation in a very peculiar 
way. It seems to produce a relaxation of the entire capillary system, 
but whether it acts through the blood or through the nervous system, 
I am unable to state. This relaxation of the capillaries favors the 
haemorrhagic diathesis. On account of this unique action of Bovista, 
we find it useful in epistaxis, associated either with menstrual irregu- 
larity, or with traumatism. 

Bovista is indicated in uterine haemorrhage when the uterus is 



I58 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

engorged, particularly when there is a flow of blood between the men- 
strual periods from any little over-exertion. Here it is exactly like 
Ambra grisea, but the menstrual flow of Bovista occurs chiefly or only at 
night or early in the morning. It would seem that the exercise during 
the day, by favoring the circulation, tends to diminish the uterine 
congestion. 

Haemorrhage when the uterus is engorged is also found under 
Ustilago and Secale. 

Another peculiarity of Bovista, which I might mention here, is 
a puffy condition of the surface of the body. A lady, for instance, 
after holding her scissors, notices that a deep crease has been made in 
the thumb and finger by the instrument, showing that there is a slight 
©edematous condition produced by the sluggish passage of the blood 
through the veins. 

Bovista also produces some symptoms of suffocation. It is used, in 
some countries, to stupefy bees in order to facilitate the collection of 
honey. The symptoms of asphyxia are very much like those pro- 
duced by the fumes of charcoal, and Bovista has proved useful as an 
antidote to the effects of charcoal fumes. 

Other antidotes to charcoal fumes are Arnica and Opium. 

In addition to these symptoms of Bovista, you should remember 
another group, likewise dependent upon the circulation. The heart 
feels enormously large, with oppression of the chest and palpitation 
after a meal and during menstruation. Associated with the heart dis- 
ease, and also with deranged menses, is a headache deep in the 
brain, with a feeling as though the head were enormously large or 
swollen. 

Mitchella repens may be used in cases of engorged uterus when the 
flow is more active than in the case of the remedies already mentioned. 
The blood is brighter in color, and the haemorrhage is associated with 
dysuria. 

The next remedy that I want to mention as similar to Secale in 
haemorrhages is Trillium pendulum. This remedy is useful in an en- 
tirely different type of haemorrhage from that calling for the former. 
It is indicated when the flow of blood is bright red and profuse, and 
is attended by a faint feeling in the epigastrium, pain in the back, 
coldness of the extremities, prostration, and rapid, feeble pulse. 
It is more closely allied to Cinchona than to any of the remedies thus 
far mentioned. It is indicated more by the active acute haemorrhage 



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than by the chronic slow oozing calling for Secale. There is gushing 
of bright red blood at every least motion. She feels as though the 
sacro-iliac synchondroses were falling apart and wants the pelvis 
tightly bound. 

Hamaynelis is likewise indicated in haemorrhage. It acts as you 
know principally upon the veins. It is called for when there is ham- 
mering headache, especially about the temples. Strange to say the 
patient exhibits no alarm or anxiety concerning the haemorrhage. 
The flow is dark and rather passive and there is a feeling of soreness 
in the affected part. The patient is greatly exhausted by the flow of 
blood. 

Erigeron Canade7isis is indicated in haemorrhages from the uterus 
associated with painful urination. How can you distinguish it from 
Mitchella ? The Erigero?i haemorrhage comes in fits and starts; it 
comes with a sudden gush and then stops again. 

Sometimes the cavity remaining after the extraction of a tooth 
bleeds persistently. If you can clean out that cavity so as to remove 
the clot, and apply to it a piece of cotton soaked in tincture of Tril- 
lium, you will often check the haemorrhage even when other styptics 
fail. I have never used Erigeron in that way and cannot, therefore, 
tell what effect it would have. I have used Trillium in the same way 
in nosebleed. 

I would like to mention here Ferrum phosphoricum. It acts upon 
the circulation very much as does Hamamelis. It is an excellent 
remedy in that stage of inflammation which we describe as ' ' dilatation 
of the blood-vessels." If administered then, it prevents further ex- 
tension of the disease. Thus in engorgement of the lungs, it prevents 
the subsequent pneumonia. The chest feels sore and bruised, the 
pulse is full and round, but not rope-like as under Aco?iite. The ex- 
pectoration is scanty and blood-streaked. Whenever the discharge 
contains blood and you have not the sthenic fever that belongs to 
Aconite, you may depend upon Ferrum phos. Sometimes in the sum- 
mer diarrhoea of children, the bloodvessels of the intestinal tract be- 
come greatly distended. The stools are watery and contain mucus 
and blood. There may be a little urging to stool but no tenesmus. If 
tenesmus appears, Ferrum phos. ceases to be the remedy. If your case 
advances to the production of pus or muco-pus, Ferrum phos. can do 
no good. 

You may also use Ferrum phos. in the beginning of hydrocephaloid, 



l6o A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

when, during a violent attack of summer complaint, the child be- 
comes drowsy and heavy, its ej^es are suffused with blood, and there is 
a full, soft pulse. It has not the hard, tense pulse of Aconite or Bella- 
donna. 



LECTURE XIV. 

THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 

I have now reviewed the majority of the medicines derived from 
the animal kingdom, and also the most important of the nosodes. We 
come next to the second grand division in natural history, the vege- 
table kingdom. The vegetable kingdom offers us many varieties of 
medicinal substances, some of great practical utility and others having 
but a limited sphere of usefulness. Drugs obtained from this king- 
dom owe their medicinal effects to the juices which they contain, or to 
certain properties which reside in the roots, flowers, or seeds. The 
medicinal qualities of a plant may be obtained from various parts of it, 
and these qualities may vary with the part. It is said of Belladonna, 
for instance, that one part of the plant gives us more of the acrid quali- 
ties of the drug, while another gives us more of the narcotic properties. 
We must be careful then in making a proving of a vegetable drug, 
that we are certain of the part of the plant we are using; and in pub- 
lishing our proving, we should state whether the whole plant was 
used, or only a single part of it. If but a single part was utilized, we 
should state accurately which part, as the root, the flowers, the seeds, 
etc. 

A study of the vegetable kingdom involves to some extent a study 
of the mineral kingdom, because many of the medicinal properties of 
vegetable remedies owe their existence to substances derived from the 
minerals in the soil in which they grow. The principal effects of 
some of the grasses are the result of the large quantity of Silica they 
contain. Xinet3 T -nine one-hundred ths of the effects of Lata-ocerasus 
come from its Hydrocyanic or Prussic acid, which is commonly classed 
with the inorganic compounds. The same may be said of Amygdala 
persica. Now these substances derived from the mineral kingdom 
and contained in the vegetable kingdom, become more active in their 
new environment; that is to say, a given chemical substance, if made 
synthetically in the laboratory, would possess less marked medicinal 
virtues than if it were obtained from a plant. The above remarks also 
apply to the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Substances existing in 
the animal kingdom and found also in the vegetable, are far more 
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l62 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

active in the former. Thus the Colorado potato bug, which feeds on 
potato-plants and derives from thence Solanine, presents more power- 
fully the symptoms of the latter than does the Solanine itself. 

We shall study the remedies derived from the vegetable kingdom ac- 
cording to the classification of botanists. There are some incongru- 
ities in the botany of to-day; for instance, in the leguminous order of 
plants from which we get peas and beans, which are very nutritious, 
is also placed the I^athyrus, which has very poisonous properties. Be- 
cause there is an outward resemblance between the Lathyrus and 
sweet-pea, it seems not a little incongruous to put them together, 
when their effects are so different. 

The five relations of drugs, which I have already mentioned, apply 
here as in the animal kingdom. There is this to be remembered, that 
substances having the same origin generally do not follow each other 
well. For example, if you have given Ignatia, it is not well to follow 
it with Nux vomica, and vice versa, because they both contain Strych- 
nia. Though they have many symptoms in common, they act too 
much in the same line. Another example may be noted in Glonoin 
and wine. When Glonoin was proved, it was found to have a decided 
action on the pulse. All the symptoms w r ere aggravated when the 
pro vers took wine. Wine produces an excitement very similar to that 
of Glonoin, but its action seems to be in the same direction, conse- 
quently it intensifies the effects of the latter. 

But the different orders, sub-orders and classes into which botanists 
divide plants are so extensive and cover such vague resemblances, 
that we cannot confine ourselves strictly to the above rule regarding 
the sequence of drugs. Take for instance the Ranunculaceae, from 
which we obtain Pulsatilla, Aconite, Helleborus, and Staphisagria . 
Now the resemblances between these four drugs are not so close that 
they cannot follow each other without injury. If we find, then, from 
our study of symptomatology of the drugs that there are no marked 
resemblances between them, the rule does not apply. In the Anacardi- 
aceae the rule does not apply with regard to Anacardium and Rhus tox. 
These drugs bear a family resemblance, but their points of divergence 
are so great that one drug may act as an antidote to the other. The 
rule, however, does apply to Ignatia and Nux vomica, and to Pulsatilla 
Nuttalliana and Pulsatilla pratensis. I will now take up the consider- 
ation of the individual drugs derived from the vegetable kingdom. 



THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 1 63 



Apocynace^E. 

In the order of Apocynacece there are a number of plants which we 
use as medicines. Among these may be mentioned Apocynum can- 
nabinum and androscsmifolium, Gelsemium sempervire?is , Vinca minor, 
Olea?ider, Nux vomica, Ignatia. Curare, Alstonia scholaris, and Spigelia. 
By some authorities Gelsemium, Nux vomica, Ignatia, Curare, and 
Spigelia have been included in another order, the Loganiace<z. This 
order of plants is very poisonous; they depress the nervous system, 
causing prostration, and even narcosis and paralysis; some of them 
cause death. 

Apocynum Cannabinum. 

Apocynum cannabinum was said by Pliny to be fatal to dogs, and 
from this circumstance its name was derived. It has a tough fibre, 
like hemp, which has been used for cordage. 

Apocynum has a marked effect in increasing the flow of urine. It 
is not sufficient, however, in the present course, to study the drug 
simply as a diuretic, because it has such a decided action on the vital 
forces that it demands a more extended notice. It depresses the vital 
forces greatly, as evidenced in the relaxed sphincters, loss of muscular 
power, etc. This loss of power is an important general symptom, 
since it qualifies, as we shall see presently, the cardiac, renal and in- 
testinal symptoms. 

In the last few years Apocynum has come into very extensive use in 
the treatment of many forms of dropsy. When I give you a resume 
of its symptoms, you will see that its indiscriminate use in dropsical 
conditions is by no means strictly homoeopathic. When not properly 
indicated symptomatically, it is necessary to exhibit it in large doses 
in order to produce any effect. Scoparius (broom-corn) and also the 
pods of some of the Leguminosae, cause increased functional activity 
of the kidne}'s and so aid in the elimination of the dropsical effusion. 
But we have to deal with an art that admits of no such prescribing. It 
aims at definiteness, not generalization. It teaches the selection of a 
similimum, not of a temporary palliative. 

When indicated Apocynum demands that the following symptoms be 
present: bewilderment and heaviness of the head; drowsiness and de- 
bility or disturbed, restless sleep. The functions are sluggish. The 



164 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

pulse is slow. The bowels are constipated, although the faeces are not 
hard. The kidneys are torpid, or else the urine is copious and 
urination is almost involuntary from relaxed sphincters. The nose 
and throat are filled with thick yellow mucus on awakening. The 
patient has a sense of oppression at the epigastrium and chest; he can 
hardly get breath to speak, even after lighter meals than usual; he 
must take frequent deep inspirations. There are also fluttering of the 
heart, and dartings and prostrated feeling in the cardiac region. The 
pulse is irregular, intermittent and at times feeble, then slow. The 
heart beats regularly, then flutters and becomes feeble, then slow and 
labored, now and then losing a beat. This is just the group of symp- 
toms characteristic of cardiac dropsy, and it shows what an affinity the 
drug has for the cardiac region. It will often palliate even in fatty 
degeneration of the heart, with dropsy, in old people. 

Here you may compare several remedies: first, Arsenicum. This 
remedy has the same thirst and the same sinking at the epigastrium 
as has Apocynum, but it is indicated in more advanced cases, and the 
patient always presents more irritability of fibre. 

I showed you the distinction between Apis, Acetic acid, and Apocy- 
num when I lectured on Apis. 

Helleborus and Digitalis are similar to Apocynum in causing torpid- 
ity, slow pulse, etc. But I think that Apocynum, as a rule, is the pre- 
ferable remedy, unless the symptoms point very strongly to one of the 
other two. 

Apocynum also has some action on the joints, producing a rheu- 
matic condition. The joints feel stiff, especially on moving in the 
morning. 

You may recall that I mentioned Apocynum as a remedy in hydro- 
cephalus. The head is large; there is bulging of the frontal bones; 
the fontanelles are wide open; there is squinting, and, in extreme 
cases, the patient is blind; one side is paralyzed. The case closely re- 
sembles Apis, but lacks the cephalic cry. It is indicated in more ad- 
vanced cases than Apis. One or two cases have been cured by the 
continued use of the remedy. 

There is a diarrhoea which may call for Apocynum. The stools are 
copious, yellow, watery, or brownish, and sometimes contain undi- 
gested food. They are discharged with an expulsive force like a cork 
from a bottle. The sphincter ani is so weak that stools escape un- 
bidden, or while the patient is passing flatus. After stool, he feels 



THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 1 65 

weak or has an " all-gone feeling" in the abdomen. The face is pale 
and covered with a cold sweat. 

Aloe has a similar weakening effect on the sphincter ani, and great 
prostration after stool; but the stools under this remedy contain a 
jelly-like mucus, are apt to be worse in the morning, and there is a 
colic which is relieved by bending double. 

Gamboge has stool preceded by excessive cutting about the navel. 
The stool is expelled " all at once" after considerable urging, and is 
followed by a feeling of great relief. 

Apocynum also has haemorrhoids, which are associated with a feel- 
ing as if a wedge were being hammered into the anus. 

Anaca?-dium is another drug which has a sensation as though a plug 
were being forced up into the anus. 

Oleander Nerium. 

The Oleander nerium is a native of Palestine, but it is also found 
wild in Southern Europe and is much cultivated in gardens and hot- 
houses everywhere; it thrives especially in damp places. As a plant 
it is highly ornamental, its large rose-colored flowers making it par- 
ticularly attractive. It is, however, very poisonous, causing a decided 
prostration of the nervous system with symptoms of narcosis. Do not 
fail to remember this depressing character of the drug. It produces 
weak memory and forgetfulness. Not only does it have this effect, 
but it also produces slowness of perception. The patient has great 
difficulty in catching the meaning of remarks. Accompanying these 
mental symptoms is a vertigo which is the result of weakness. Every- 
thing points to depression of the sensorium. Oleander is an impor- 
tant remedy when the symptoms just mentioned are the forerunners 
of paralysis. 

Some years ago I succeeded in curing a case of headache with 
Oleander. The patient was a young lady. The headache was relieved 
by forcibly looking cross-eyed. While hunting for this symptom 
in the materia medica, I found that Olea?ider had pain in the head 
relieved by looking sideways. On that symptom I prescribed the 
remedy. 

Studying the action of Olea?ider on the abdominal organs, we find 
emptiness and goneness in the pit of the stomach, even after eating, 
relieved by taking brandy. You will find this symptom indicating 



1 66 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Oleander in very weak women who have infants at the breast. Im- 
mediately after nursing, the patient is seized with a tremor, and is so 
weak that she is scarcely able to walk across the room. 

Car bo animalis is also suited to this condition. 

Oleander is useful in diarrhoea. The stools are thin and contain 
undigested food, the characteristic symptom being that the patient 
passes, undigested, the food he had eaten the day before. This symp- 
tom you may notice in children with cholera infantum and marasmus. 
Another symptom calling for Oleander in infants and children is, 
"every time they pass wind they soil their diapers." 

Here you must study Oleander in conjunction with Ferrum, Arseni- 
cum y Argentum nitricum, and Cinchona. Ferrum has diarrhoea with 
stool containing undigested food. The stool is unattended with pain, 
and is apt to occur during a meal. 

Arsenicum is indicated in diarrhoea caused by chilling the stomach 
by the ingestion of cold substances. The stools are of a yellow color 
and are attended with pain of a burning character. The patient is 
worse after midnight, and there is the peculiar Arsenicum thirst. 

Argentum nitricum is indicated in diarrhoea in which the bowels 
move as soon as the patient drinks. 

Cinchona is useful in debilitating diarrhoea, with watery evacuations 
containing undigested food; caused or made worse by eating fruits. 
The stools may escape involuntarily after a meal. 

Apis mellifica is a good remedy in cholera infantum with wide open 
anus and involuntary escape of faeces. 

Phosphorus and Aloe also have involuntary escape of faeces; the 
symptom may best be expressed as a want of confidence in the sphinc- 
ter ani. With Phosphorus, the faeces pass as soon as they enter the 
rectum, as if the anus remained open. 

In paralysis, Oleander is indicated when the disease invades one or 
the other limb; it is painless, and is usually preceded for a long time 
by vertigo. I think that Oleander, like Gelsemium, is indicated only 
in functional paralysis. I do not believe that it will cure paralysis of 
central origin. It goes further than Gelsemium, however, in implicat- 
ing the sensory as well as the motor nerves. 

Oleander also has an action on the skin. It produces marked sensi- 
tiveness of the skin, so that very slight friction causes soreness and 
chafing, especially about the neck or between the scrotum and thighs. 
There is violent itching of the skin on undressing. It also produces 



THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 1 67 

an eruption on the scalp and behind the ears, simulating crusta lactea, 
and oozing a fluid which hardens into scabs beneath which vermin 
breed. It is just as important a remedy in this disease as Sulphur, 
Mezereum, Viola tricolor, etc. The distinction which you may make 
lies in the other symptoms, i. e., if the characteristic gastro-enteric 
symptoms are present, Oleander will be the remedy. 

For symptoms produced by acute poisoning with this remedy, Cam- 
phor is the best antidote. For the chronic symptoms, particularly if 
there be any cutaneous disorder, Sulphur is probably the best remedy, 
because it is the most similar, but of the value of this last suggestion I 
am not positive. I merely offer it to you for what it is worth. 

Vinca Minor. 

Vinca minor is one variety of the periwinkle. It contains a bitter 
and astringent principle, making it of service asa " tonic," to use old- 
school language, and also as a styptic to control haemorrhage. These 
properties it retains in the potencies. For instance, it may be used 
for profuse menstruation or passive menorrhagia when the blood flows 
in one continuous stream, associated of course with great debility. I 
find that Dr. Richard Hughes, in his Ma?iual of Pharmacodyna?nics , 
speaks of three cases of post-climacteric haemorrhage, all of which 
were improved by Vinca minor. In one a permanent cure resulted; in 
the other two there was a return of the haemorrhage, and in one of 
these the trouble was due to carcinoma. 

Vinca minor, like its relative, Oleander, produces an offensive smell- 
ing eruption on the scalp and face and behind the ears, in which 
vermin breed. It develops a crust which allows the discharge to re- 
main beneath, and decomposition furnishes pabulum for the vermin ;- 
the hair falls out and is replaced by gray hair. 

Viyica minor is also useful in plica polonica, a condition in which the 
hair is matted together. 

In these skin symptoms you may compare Vinca minor with several 
remedies; first with Viola tricolor. This is useful in crusta lactea, 
when the exudation is very copious. Like Vinca, it mats the hair to- 
gether, but there is this peculiarity which always enables you to dis- 
tinguish between the two, namely, Viola has urine with a peculiar 
pungent odor, which has been aptly compared to that of cat's urine. 
You may think of it when persistent eczema is accompanied by 



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disturbance in the urinary organs, either too copious urination, or sud- 
den cessation of the urinary secretion. 

Another remedy is Arctium lappa, which is useful for moist offensive 
eruption, forming grayish- white crusts, especially when the adjacent 
glands are swollen; the axillary glands may even suppurate. There is 
polyuria with pain in the bladder after voiding the urine. 

Still another remedy for crusta lactea or tinea favosa is Nux juglans. 
It has soreness on and behind the ears, like Graphites; the scalp is red 
and itches violently. Scabs appear on the arms and in the axillae 
(also Arseiiicum iod.). 

Staphisagria is a good remedy for an oozing foetid eruption, worse 
on the occiput; the hair falls out. Scratching seems to cause the itch- 
ing to change place. It is particularly indicated in sickly children 
with pale face and dark rings around the eyes. They are easily 
angered and reject proffered gifts, just as under Chamomilla. It is 
especially indicated after the abuse of mercury. 

Ustilago has caused, but it has not yet been reported to have cured, 
a filthy eruption of the scalp, in which part of the hair came out, 
leaving the remainder matted. A watery serum oozed continually 
from the eruption. 

AlvSTONIA SCHOLARIS. 

Alstonia, so far as proved, causes debility, low fever, often with 
diarrhoea, and, when pushed, rigors, sweat, etc., purging, cramps and 
vertigo. Clinically, it has been used in chills and fever, in diarrhoea 
of malarial origin, here vieing with China, and for chronic intermit- 
tent fevers suppressed by quinine. 

It contains Ditaine, which, like Curare, paralyzes peripheral motor- 
nerve filaments. This is not, as in Chininum, preceded by reflex ex- 
citement. Ditaine evidently paralyzes vaso-motor nerves. It seems 
to resemble China in diarrhoea, chills, etc., but has not the irritability 
of the latter. 






LECTURE XV. 

GELSEMIUM SEMPER VIRENS. 

Gelsemium sempervirEns is a 3^ellow-flowering plant indigenous 
to the South. It is an evergreen, and puts forth its fragrant flowers 
among the earliest in the spring. It is highly poisonous; especially 
active in this respect is the bark of the roots. During our late civil 
war this plant was largely used in the South as a substitute for Opium 
as a narcotic. 

It is a member of the Loganiacese, all of which are more or less 
poisonous. From this order we obtain also Nux vomica, Ignatia and 
Spigelia. 

Its alkaloid, Gelsemi?ie, is a mydriatic like Atropine and Duboisine. 
Applied locally or used internally in large doses, it dilates the pupil. 
Given internally in small doses, however, it contracts the pupil. 

To acquire a thorough knowledge of Gelsemium will not tax you 
much. Its sphere of action is well defined. In poisoning cases we 
find that the prominent and universal symptom is paralysis of the 
motor nerves. Keep this fact before you and the symptoms of this 
remedy will be readily understood, especially if you apply the paretic 
action to both voluntary and involuntary muscles. The mind is at first 
clear; or there may be a slightly stupefied condition as in the case of al- 
coholic intoxication, a sluggishness in thought and in emotion. Later 
in the toxic effects of the drug you will note that the sphincters be- 
come relaxed; the anus remains open, permitting the escape of faeces. 
Urine escapes freely and involuntarily. Still later, respiration becomes 
labored, as though the muscles had not the power to lift the chest. 
Finally, the heart-muscle gives out, and the patient dies. Looking, 
then, at these symptoms as presenting in a nutshell the action of this 
drug, we find that it is a depressant. It acts upon the cerebro-spinal 
system, particularly upon the anterior columns of the cord. We also 
see that, by producing this sluggishness of thought, this stupid state 
of the mind, it must have an action on the vascular system. It is 
through the vaso-motor nerves that it produces passive congestion, and 
this congestion may be either venous or arterial. Passive congestion 
is generally of venous origin; but under Gelse??iium the passive 



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hyperemia refers to both arteries and veins. In addition to this 
nervous action of the drug, it has something of an affinity for the mu- 
cous surfaces, giving rise to catarrhal inflammations. It is not diffi- 
cult with this outline of the drug to fill in the characteristics. 

We find that, in obedience to its paralytic action, it causes diplopia. 
This double vision, when Gelsemium is the remedy, comes from pare- 
sis of the muscles of the eye. 

Ptosis, or paralysis of the upper lid, calls for Gelsemium when it is 
associated with thick speech and suffused redness of the face. The 
eyeballs feel sore, the soreness being worse on moving the eyes. In 
this last symptom it is similar to Bryonia. 

In ptosis we may compare Gelsemium with Causticum, Rhus toxi- 
codendron, Sepia, Kalmia, and Alumina. Rhus tox. is useful in ptosis, 
or, in fact, in paralysis of any of the ocular muscles, when the disease 
occurs in rheumatic patients as a result of getting wet. 

Sepia is indicated in ptosis when it is associated with menstrual ir- 
regularities. 

Kalmia is also useful in ptosis of rheumatic origin, when attended 
with a sensation of stiffness in the lids. 

Causticum, in the ptosis of rheumatic subjects. 

Alumina is indicated in ptosis associated with rectal inertia and con- 
sequent constipation. 

Returning now to Gelsemium, we find that there is difficulty in 
swallowing, dysphagia, as it is called. This symptom is due to defect 
in the muscles of deglutition. 

Gelsemium also acts upon the larynx, causing aphonia, or want of 
voice; the patient may be able to whisper, but he can scarcely utter 
any sounds on account of the paretic state of the laryngeal muscles. 
This symptom is frequently observed in hysterical women especially 
after emotions of a depressing character. Paralysis after emotion is 
noted under other drugs; for example, under Natrum mur., which has, 
" the arm almost loses its power after a fit of anger;" Stannum, para- 
lysis mostly left-sided with perspiration of the affected part; Staphi- 
sagria, paralysis of one side from anger. 

The heart is affected by Gelsemium; on going to sleep the patient is 
suddenly aroused by a feeling that the heart will stop beating. He 
feels that the heart would cease to beat if he did not move about. 
Here the heart-muscle is in a weakened state, and there is a sort of 
instinct on the part of the person to move about to stimulate it to act. 



GEESEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS. 171 

Digitalis has a symptom which is just the reverse of this, namely, 
the patient fears that the heart will cease beating if he makes any 
motion. 

Grindelia robusta has great weakness of the heart and lungs. When 
the patient drops off to sleep he wakes up suddenly with a sensation as 
if respiration had ceased. 

In post-diphtheritic paralysis, Gelsemium is our most valuable rem- 
edy. In one very severe case of this disease under my care, Gelsemium 
effected a perfect cure. The child did not have sufficient strength to 
hold herself up. The spine in the upper cervical region was bent 
backward. One side of the body was paralyzed. In attempting to 
walk, the child would shuffle along as though she had no control over 
the muscles. If she attempted to turn around, she would fall. The 
speech was thick and heavy, as though the tongue were too large for 
the mouth. There was marked strabismus. But sensation was nearly 
perfect. I ordered the patient to be stripped twice a day, laid on the 
bed, and thoroughly rubbed. I gave her Gelsemium internally, and 
under the use of this remedy she made a perfect recovery. 

I doubt whether Gelsemium will cure paralysis of organic origin, 
where there are tissue alterations in the brain, the spinal cord, or the 
peripheral nerves themselves. 

Gelsemium is useful in some cases of headache. I said a few mo- 
ments ago that it causes a passive congestion, and by that I mean, not 
a violent, sudden afflux of blood to a part, but a dilated condition of 
the bloodvessels, such as may be found under Ferrum phos. The 
headache begins in the nape of the neck, passes up over the head, and 
settles down over the eyes. It is usually worse in the morning, and 
is accompanied by stiff neck, or it begins at 2 or 3 a. m. and reaches 
its acme in the afternoon. The patient cannot think effectively or fix 
his attention. He becomes listless and stupid; he has dizziness with 
blurred sight and heaviness of the head. These symptoms are alle- 
viated by the discharge of watery-looking urine. 

Oleum animale has cured megrim with polyuria, the urine being per- 
fectly clear. Compare also Ig?iatia, Sa?iguinaria } Kalmia, Melilotus, 
Aconite and Silicea. 

The face is a suffused red color. The eyes grow heavy and bloodshot. 
There is great difficulty in lifting the upper lids; often, too, the speech 
is thick, as though the tongue were unwieldy. Altogether, the face 
has the appearance of one under the influence of liquor. Thought is 



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slow, so that the patient answers questions either slowly or imperfectly. 
This condition is accompanied by a pulse which is full and round, and 
seems to flow under the fingers like a current of water. It resembles 
the Aconite pulse, but lacks the tone of the latter. It is not hard and 
unyielding like the pulse of Aco?tite. Not infrequently the headache 
is preceded by blindness, as under Psori?ium. 

Here, then, you have symptoms which suggest Gelsemium in a va- 
riety of diseases. How useful it ought to be in the congestive stage of 
spotted fever! In addition to the symptoms already mentioned, there 
is another which is characteristic of spotted fever, namely, depression; 
the system seems to be laboring under the effect of some poison which 
it cannot overcome. So you have every indication here for the use of 
Gelsemium in that dreaded disease. But when the case advances to 
active inflammation, or when there is effusion, Gelsemium gives place 
to other remedies. 

In addition to the headache above described, there is another form 
which is associated with a feeling as though there were a band around 
the head, or across the forehead. 

Let us now consider the fever of Gelse?nium. It causes a fever 
which is remitting or intermitting in its type. You will find it a 
valuable remedy in the remitting types of fever in children. During 
the febrile exacerbation they are very nervous and restless, tossing 
about continually. (You must not give Aconite in these cases, unless 
the mental symptoms of that remedy are present.) The face has the 
suffused redness I mentioned above, and there is drowsiness. When 
aroused from this drowsy state the child is peevish, irritable, nervous, 
even somewhat excitable, but there is never the violent tossing about 
of Aconite. In extreme cases the drowsiness may give place to con- 
vulsive motion. The muscles of the face twitch; the child becomes 
rigid, as though it were about to have a convulsion. There is usually 
not very much thirst, but there is great prostration, so that the child 
seems too weak to move. Every part of the body seems to be so sore 
that he cries out if you move him. These symptoms will remit and, 
possibly, the next morning, slight perspiration will show itself. The 
next afternoon the symptoms return as before. 

In intermittent types of fever you may select Gelsemium in the be- 
ginning. The chill runs up the back or starts from the feet and ex- 
tends upward. It is sometimes associated with copious urination and 
with bruised aching all over the body. The patient wants to be held 



GEESEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS. 173 

so that he will not shake so much. Then comes the fever with the 
symptoms that I have already mentioned. Sometimes irritability is 
exhibited. He can neither bear noise nor light. The sweat is slight 
or partial, but it relieves all the pains. The tongue is coated white or 
yellow. Speech is thick. The bowels are constipated and the stools 
are yellow. It is especially indicated in intermittent fever of non- 
malarial origin. 

In adults we find Gelsemium the remedy in bilious fever, particularly 
bilious remittent fever. The reason that it is useful in bilious fever is 
that it causes a passive congestion of the liver. The blood flows slug- 
gishly through the liver. This is not the portal stasis found under 
Nux vomica, but it is a lazy now of blood. Thus the liver becomes 
overcharged with blood, the bile cannot be properly secreted, and 
there is a bilious type of fever. 

In typhoid fever Gelsemium is indicated, particularly in the initial 
stages; when, during the first week, the patient feels sore and bruised 
all over, as if he had been pounded. He dreads to move. He has 
headache. More than that, he has loss of muscular power. He is 
drowsy, and has this same suffused red face. In these cases Gel- 
semium will so modify the course of the fever that the patient will pass 
through it with comparatively mild symptoms. 

We may find Gelsemium indicated in catarrhs excited by warm, 
moist, relaxing weather, with excoriating discharge from the nose, 
making the nostrils and wings of the nose raw and sore. There are 
frequent paroxysms of sneezing, especially in the morning, and sore 
throat, the tonsils being red and somewhat tumefied, with difficulty in 
swallowing. I would remind you, in passing, that this difficulty in 
swallowing is not what it is under Belladonna. Under the latter 
remedy the difficulty comes from the extent of the swelling, and also 
from spasmodic contraction of the fauces, owing to the hyperesthesia 
of the nerves. No sooner does water touch the throat than it is ex- 
pelled through the nose. With Gelsemium the d3<sphagia is the result 
of the paretic state of the muscles, or the patient was muscularly weak 
when he caught cold. With this cold you will find dry, teasing, tick- 
ling cough, with very little expectoration. There is a sensation of 
dryness in the mouth, although it is not dry, which reminds us of Nux 
moschata and Nat? tint mur. The right nostril is red and sore; there 
is a feeling as if hot water were passing over the mucous membrane of 
the nostrils; relief comes when near the fire. You find general pros- 
tration, and often, too, neuralgia of the face. 



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Quillaya (or soap bark) cures colds contracted in warm relaxing 
weather. Like Gelsemium there are muscular languor, desire for rest 
and quiet, general bruised feeling, even of the eye-balls, etc. The for- 
mer, however, has more of a stuffed sensation in the nose; the 
latter a fluent, excoriating coryza with neuralgia of the face and head. 

Now in prosopalgia Gelsemium may be of use when the disease 
affects one side, and is intermitting in its type. The seventh pair of 
nerves is involved, and the patient makes all sorts of grimaces. 

Gelsemium has some slight action on the skin. It produces redness 
and an itching which is violent enough to prevent the patient from 
falling asleep. A fine eruption, consisting of small pimples, and some- 
what resembling that of measles, may appear. Gelsemium may, there- 
fore, be used in measles in the beginning, when fever is a prominent 
symptom, and we have the watery discharge from the nose, excoriat- 
ing the alse nasi and the upper lip. There is apt to be associated with 
this a hard, barking, croupy cough and hoarseness. 

Aconite, other things being equal, is the best remedy we have for 
the beginning of measles. If you have a case that you presume is 
going to be measles, with fever, restlessness, photophobia, coryza, 
sneezing, and hard, croupy cough, you are justified in giving Aconite. 

If there be any fever Pulsatilla is not the remedy. 

When the skin is moist with the fever, Belladonna is more likely to 
be the remedy. 

When the characteristic drowsiness and suffused face is present, you 
may give Gelse?niu?n in the beginning of any eruptive disease, even if 
there be convulsions present. 

Next I want to speak of the action of Gelsemium on the genital 
organs. On the male organs it produces a condition very nearly ap- 
proaching impotence. There are frequent involuntary emissions at 
night, with relaxation of the organs, no lascivious dreams, and often 
cold sweat on the scrotum. It is indicated especially in those cases 
which arise from masturbation. 

I would have you note here another remedy, namely, Dioscorea. 
This is excellent for what we may term atonic seminal emissions. 
The organs are so relaxed that two or three dreams, with emissions of 
semen, occur in a single night. The day following the emissions the 
patient feels weak, particularly about the knees In these cases I 
know of no remedy like Dioscorea. I usually give it first in the 12th 
potency, and afterward in the 30th. 



GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS. 175 

Caladium seguinum is indicated for the bad effects of sexual ex- 
cesses, when wet-dreams occur without any lasciviousness or any 
sexual excitement whatsoever. 

Ag?ius castus is the remedy for spermatorrhoea in old sinners. The 
parts are cold and relaxed; the sexual appetite is gone and the patient 
is melancholic. 

Other remedies which may be compared with Gelsemiurn in its ac- 
tion on the male organs are Digitalis, Phosphorus , Nux vomica, Cal- 
carea ostr. , Lycopodhim and Camphor. 

Sepia, Selenium, and Conium produce a similar seminal weakness, 
with erethism and easy emissions. 

In gonorrhoea, Gelsemium is indicated in the beginning when there 
is marked urethral soreness. There are also burnings at the meatus 
and along the course of the urethra. The discharge as yet is slight, 
not having become purulent. The disease may have been suppressed, 
and, as a result, may be complicated with epididymitis. In gonor- 
rhceal rheumatism it may be a useful remedy. 

In diseases of the female organs, Gelsemium is an invaluable rem- 
edy. First of all, we find it useful in rigid os uteri. You must not 
confound this condition with the more common spasm of the os, which 
calls for Belladonna. Often we find in labor, after it has lasted 
several hours, that there has been tardy dilatation of the os. The ex- 
amining finger finds the os unyielding, hard and thick. The patient 
is hysterical and full of nervous excitement. The pains leave the 
uterus and fly all over the body or shoot upward and backward. At 
other times the pains go from before backward and the uterus seems 
to push upward. Or there is a sensation of a wave rising from the 
uterus to the throat, ending in choking. This condition calls for 
Gelsemium. 

Another condition, exactly opposite to this, also calls for Gelsemium, 
namely, complete atony of the uterus. The neck of the uterus is as 
soft as putty. It is perfectly flabby. The body of the uterus does 
not contract at all. The bag of waters bulges freely from the os, but 
there is no attempt whatever at expulsion. In such cases, give a few 
doses of Gelsemium. 

In the premonitory stages of puerperal convulsions Gelsemium is an 
admirable remedy. Albuminuria may be present. The convulsions 
are preceded by drowsiness, and twitching of different parts of the 
body. The os is either rigid, as I first mentioned, or else everything 



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is perfectly inactive; the pulse is full and large, but soft. Sharp, dis- 
tressing, cutting pains in the abdomen go from before backward and 
then upward, and with every pain the face flushes. 

Gelsemium may also be used in the non-pregnant state. The uterus 
is markedly anteflexed and feels as if squeezed by a band. The 
uterine symptoms are associated with a frontal headache and dim 
vision. The head feels enormously enlarged, with a wild confused 
feeling in it. These symptoms alternate with sharp labor-like pain in 
the uterus extending to the hips and back, and even down the thighs. 
Gelsemium is often useful in neuralgic and congestive dysmenorrhcea 
when bearing down coexists. 

Caulophyllum is similar to Gelsemium in dysmenorrhcea and follows 
it well. 

Actea racemosa and Sepia have headaches reflex from uterine irrita- 
tion. 

Gelsemiurn is useful for the effects of emotions, particularly after 
fright or fear. A suddenly appearing diarrhoea, coming on from ex- 
citement, as for instance ' ' stage-fright ' ' or the anticipation of some 
trying ordeal, calls for Gelsemium. The stools are copious, yellow and 
papescent. The tongue is coated white or yellowish. 

Other remedies coming into play in cases of diarrhoea arising from^ 
emotional influences are Opiu?n y Veratrum album, Argentum nitricum 
and Pulsatilla. 

Opium in cases coming on as a result of fright, especially when the 
image of the thing which caused the fright constantly appears before 
the mind. 

Veratrum album in diarrhoea after fright, associated with cold sweat 
on the forehead. 

Argentum nitricum when diarrhoea follows great excitement, espe- 
cially when the imagination has been played upon. Diarrhoea from 
anticipation. 

Pulsatilla in diarrhoea from fright, when the stools are greenish, 
yellow and slimy, or very changeable and worse at night; trembling; 
weeping. 

Gelsemium may even avert impending abortion from depressing 
emotions, with the peculiar pains mentioned above in connection with 
labor. In this condition you should compare Aconite and Opium. 

Conium, Physostigma and Tabacum intensify the action of Gelsemium. 

Gelsemium is antidoted by stimulants, and by Belladonna, Digitalis, 
China and Cojfea. 






LECTURE XVI. 

NUX VOMICA. 

Nux vomica, another member of the Loganiacese, is a drug that was 
known as early as 1540, A. D., in which year, one Valerius Cordus 
wrote a remarkably accurate description of it. The fruit of the tree 
is about the size of an orange and contains a bitter, gelatinous pulp. 
This pulp, it is said, is eaten by some of the birds of India, although 
it is well known to contain Strychnine. The Nux itself is the seed de- 
prived of the pulp and shell. This seed is disk-shaped, and about one 
inch in diameter and one-quarter of an inch thick. Its surface is 
satiny by reason of a thick covering of adpressed radiating hairs. 

You will recall that I have already mentioned that Ignatia and 
Nux vomica both contain as active principles two alkaloids known as 
Strychnia and Brucia. The Brucia occurs in much smaller quantities 
than the other, and is present more in the bark of the tree than in the 
nut itself. Its properties are somewhat similar to those of Strychnia. 
Both alkaloids are combined with an acid known as Igasuric acid, 
which is identical with the malic acid found in apples and pears. 
Strychnia, the principal alkaloid of Ignatia and Nux vomica, has a 
well-described symptomatology, being a poison not uncommonly used 
for suicidal and homicidal purposes, and also for the extermination of 
the lower animals, cats, rats, etc. Strychnia causes restlessness, 
trembling of the limbs, stiffness of the neck and jaws, constriction of 
the throat and tetanic convulsions with opisthotonos. These tetanic 
convulsions differ from those of true tetanus only in the fact that the 
muscles relax between the paroxysms. The temperature of the body 
is not so high as in true tetanus, and trismus comes late in Strychnia 
poisoning. These Strychnia convulsions are re-excited by impressions 
made on the senses, particularly by the slightest touch, while rubbing 
relieves; the patient is conscious throughout the attack. In very large 
or in oft-repeated doses, Strychnia causes paralysis of afferent nerves. 
Finally, collapse ensues as the result of exhaustion of the motor 
centres. I give you these symptoms of Strychnia for two purposes. 
One is that you may be familiar with them in order to recognize them 
in case one of your patients is unfortunate enough to be poisoned with 
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the drug. The other is that you may the better understand the action 
of Nux vomica, for Strychnia being its principal ingredient, you will 
find running all through its symptomatology this over-impressibility; 
by this I mean that everything impresses the patient excessively. Ex- 
ternal impressions, such as sounds, odors and noises, excite him, and 
this symptom, I say, is characteristic of the drug. 

The smallest fatal dose of Nux vomica is said to be three grains; 
that of Strychnia, one-half a grain. 

Strychnia resembles Picrotoxine, Veratria, Cicuta virosa, Thebaine, 
Hydrocya?iic acid, Bellado?ina, Stramonium, Aconite, Physostigma, 
Passiflora, Curare, Camphor, and Phytolacca; but especially are its 
effects like traumatic tetanus. 

Picrotoxine , according to Bartholow, is synergistic with Strychnia; 
but respiration is accelerated, not so much from spasm of the respira- 
tory muscles as from spasm of the glottis; and there is less suscepti- 
bility to slight touch. Gubler asserts that Picrotoxi?ie produces more 
choreic symptoms. 

Veratria causes incoordination by producing relaxation of some 
fibres with contraction of others; that is, following prolonged contrac- 
tion of muscles comes a state of partial relaxation with fibrillary con- 
tractions. Herein it somewhat resembles Strychnia; but it differs 
widely in purging and vomiting, and in general paralysis occurring, 
not from exhaustion, but from direct devitalizing of the muscles. 

Thebaine causes tetanus, but may be distinguished by its hypnotic 
symptoms. It is said to be the most poisonous of the active principles 
of Opium. 

Physostigma, which contains the alkaloid Eserine, can be confused 
with Strychnia only in a limited range of symptoms. It increases the 
irritability of the sensory nerves and also causes tetanic spasms of in- 
voluntary muscles. But in the main, it differs widely from Strych?iia, 
causing spinal paralysis and diminished reflex action. Hence, when 
such symptoms as constriction of the throat, cramps in the stomach 
and bowels, tenesmus recti, stiff spine and legs, tight feeling in and 
about the eyeballs, etc., suggest a similarity to Strychnia, such con- 
sentaneous evidences of spinal paralysis as the following will serve for 
differentiation: trembling; so feeble he can hardly walk; finds difficulty 
in making the muscles obey the will (like Gelse??tium and Co?iium)\ 
unsteady when walking with the eyes closed. In Strychnia, death re- 
sults from asphyxia caused by tetanic spasm of the respiratory 



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muscles; in Physostigma, from paralysis. The pupils, too, differ; the 
former causes dilatation during the convulsions, with contraction dur- 
ing the interim; the latter causes contraction with defective accommo- 
dation and twitching of the eyelids. 

If, now, the remote effects of Strychnia are to be considered — such 
effects as follow severe but not fatal poisoning, or such symptoms as 
are frequently produced by potencies — we may still discriminate by the 
characteristic irritability, which is more marked in Strychnia; every- 
thing makes too strong an impression; odors cause fainting; there are 
muscular tremors with excitement; desire for coitus, but during the 
act the penis becomes flaccid. 

Curare, although it contains Strychnia, acts quite differently from 
the latter on account of the presence of the alkaloid Ctirarine. This 
substance destroys the irritability of the end-organs of the motor 
nerves, leaving the muscles themselves intact. Reflex action is 
diminished or destroyed, and respiration is paralyzed. Sensation is 
not materially altered. Owing to paralysis of the vagus, the heart's 
action is accelerated, bat blood-pressure is not increased. In fact, 
from paralysis of vaso-motor termini, the bloodvessels dilate, lessen- 
ing resistance to the blood currents. Increased peristalsis is not due 
to spasm, but to paralysis of the inhibitory splanchnic fibres. 

We have no very trustworthy provings of Curare. Baruch has 
used it for so-called " liver-spots;" and Dr. Paul Pitet records several 
interesting cures of muscular weakness, embarrassed respiration from 
deficient power, immobility with fixed gaze on awakening, and eczema 
of infants, worse on the face and behind the ears, especially in 
scrofulous children ( World" s Homceopathic Convention, vol. i). 

It has also been used by Baruch, I think, for catalepsy, with spasms 
of the lower jaw, and for paralytic weakness in the hands and fingers 
of pianists. 

Phytolacca differs essentially from Strychnia in its acrid-narcotic 
properties, as well as in its tardy gastro-intestinal irritation and col- 
lapse. Still the convulsive symptoms are somewhat similar; the limbs 
are stiff, the hands firmly shut, the feet extended and the toes flexed; 
the jaws are clenched and the lips everted showing the teeth; opistho- 
tonos is present; the chin is drawn down to the sternum; there is alter- 
nate relaxation and spasm of the facial muscles. 

Passiflora incarnata has cured cases of tetanus in hot countries, 
where, unhappily, they are but too common. Dr. Archibald Ba}me, 



l8o A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

of Barbadoes, W. I., reports two cures with the tincture and the ix 
{Hahnemannian Monthly , May, 1881). 

Angustura is placed among aromatic bitters and is called a tonic. 
But it is more than this. It causes drawing, tension, and stiffness of 
the muscles and joints, with a bruised, sore feeling, as after a blow. 
This tension is marked enough in the temporal and masseter muscles 
to suggest trismus. The drug also affects the bones. There are 
points of resemblance between Angustura and another of the Rutaceae, 
the Ruta graveolens. Injury to periosteum frequently suggests the 
latter; and it is very probable that injury with incipient muscular con- 
tractions may need the former. 

Dr. Hering, who was fully aware of the confusion of Angustura 
with Strychnia, nevertheless reported a cure of tetanus with the 
former, and printed the symptoms thereof in his Guiding Symptoms. 
Dr. Hubbard reports a cure made with Angustura {Medical Investiga- 
tor, April, 1870). 

That Angustura vera acts on the bones has been fully confirmed. 
iE^gidi used it when the long bones were affected (see Raue' s Pathology} . 
Dr. C. G. Raue writes me that the preparation with which he cured 
podarthrocace was unquestionably the vera. It was Jenichen's, and 
this manufacturer carefully distinguished between Angustura vera and 
Angustura falsa, or Nucis vomica cortex seu Brucea antidysenterica. 

Dr. Aug. Korndoerfer, Sr.,used Jenichen's 200th for necrosis of the 
lower jaw. One side of the jaw had been successfully excised; but 
the disease made its appearance on the other side; the cure was com- 
plete. 

Among the general characteristics of Angustura we may refer to 
irritation from a slight offence (with caries). Craving for coffee 
(clinical, but confirmed by Dunham, Boenninghausen, and iEgidi). 
Tenesmus recti, with soft stool; urging to urinate, with copious flow 
(see Dr. Edmundson's case, Hahnemannian Mo?ithly, October, 1876). 
I cannot, then, quite agree with Dr. Hughes, who asserts that 
A?igtcstura has no recognized therapeutic place. 

Aconite in one of its manifestations, causes a general tension of 
nerves and vessels, characterized by the w T ell-known anxiety, heat, 
etc. (see Hughes's Pharmacodynamics) . It also induces trismus, stiff- 
ness of the limbs, and even opisthotonos. We see now why Reynol 
could use it successfully in trismus of horses (Trousseau's Therapeutics, 
vol. ii); and, further, why it is recommended in the beginning of trau - 
matic tetanus. 



NUX VOMICA. I8l 

It does not, however, like Strychnia, cause increased reflex excita- 
bility. There is present rather a diminution or perversion of sensi- 
bility, expressed by tingling numbness. 

In impending tetanus we certainly have efficient preventives of the 
full-fledged disease. Aconite, with fever, anxiety, tension of muscles, 
tingling and numbness; Veratrum viride, Hypericum, with excrucia- 
ting pain in the wound; Belladonna, Cicuta, Silicea, and possibly 
Angustura, if the wound is suppurating or has suddenly ceased to dis- 
charge pus. 

Hydrocyanic acid was first recommended in tetanus by Begin; and 
Dr. Hughes, in his paper on that acid, read at the World's Conven- 
tion in 1876, cited poisoning cases which prove its homceopathicity to 
epilepsy and to tetanus. The relation of this acid to the latter disease 
is more fully brought out in Dr. Hughes's Pharmacodynamics , where 
we read: "Hydrocyanic acid causes tetanus; there is not, as with 
Strychnia, evidence of increased reflex excitability; but, as with 
Acojiite and Cicuta, persistent tonic spasm; this it produces by direct 
action upon the spinal cord." 

It seems especially useful when the tetanic symptoms show them- 
selves mostly in the muscles of face, jaws, and back; there are tris- 
mus, risus sardonicus and embarrassed respiration, with lividity and 
frothing at the mouth. Dr. Charles A. Barnard reports two cases of 
traumatic tetanus relieved with this acid. In each instance only the 
spasms of face, jaws, and chest were ameliorated, other remedies be- 
ing needed for the remaining symptoms (see New England Medical 
Gazette, October, 1882). This affinity of Hydrocyanic acid for the 
upper part of the body does not contra-indicate the medicine in 
opisthotonos and general tetanic rigidity, for under its baneful in- 
fluence both trunk and extremities are thrown into spasm. In one 
case, spasms commenced in the toes and spread over the body. But 
the acid undoubtedly affects the medulla oblongata most powerfully, 
and consequently lungs, heart, and larynx suffer through thepneumo- 
gastric nerve. It bears but little resemblance to Strychnia, but is simi- 
lar to Cicuta, Lachesis, and Nicotine. 

Lachesis has relieved when, with trismus and spasm of the larynx, 
there is blueness from asphyxia and the patient sleeps into the 
paroxysm. 

Cicuta virosa contains a volatile alkaloid termed Cicutine, which is 
chemically identical with Coniine. According to Boehm, this plant 



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causes vomiting, diarrhoea, and tetanoid convulsions, and in man also 
syncope and strabismus. Cicutoxine is another alkaloid derived from 
Cicuta. It is the most powerful of the Cicuta derivatives, causing 
in frogs, alternate tonic and clonic spasms. The respiration is hurried, 
the inspiratory so far exceeding the expiratory act that the animal be- 
comes distended with air. In mammals, the first effect is profuse 
salivation, quivering of the muscles, and then spasms. The breathing 
grows very rapid, and then suddenly convulsions develop. Respira- 
tion, as with Strychnia, is suspended by contraction of the respiratory 
muscles. If irritated, spasms return; after the paroxysms subside, the 
animal lies completely exhausted. 

Now these views of the action of Cicuta embody characteristics 
which have for years guided the homoeopathist in the choice of this 
powerful remedy; sudden rigidity; then jerking and violent distortion, 
followed by utter prostration; tonic spasm renewed by touch; great op- 
pression of breathing; lock-jaw; face dark red; froth at the mouth; 
opisthotonos; loss of co?isciousness . 

The seizure in the Cicuta case is more epileptiform than in Strychnia 
and there is generally loss of consciousness. Reflex excitability is less 
marked in the former. The exhaustion of Cicuta is equalled only by 
Chininum arsenicosum. 

Tabacum and its alkaloid Nicotine, which is also closely related to 
Coniine, cause drawing back of the head, with rigidity of the muscles 
of the neck and back; contraction of the eyelids and the masseter 
muscles; hissing respiration from spasm of the laryngeal and bronchial 
muscles; alternate tonic and clonic spasms, followed by general relax- 
ation and trembling; retraction of the abdominal muscles; contractions 
of parts supplied with involuntary muscle-fibres, as the intestines, 
ureters, etc. ; these contractions are accompanied by intense pain, 
nausea, cold sweat and speedy collapse, with asphyxia. 

Tobacco, then, acts upon the spine, especially upon the medulla 
oblongata, and also upon the abdominal ganglia. Its tetanic symp- 
toms with asphyxia resemble those of Hydrocyanic acid rather than 
those of Strychnia. A characteristic difference between Tobacco and 
Nux vomica is well brought out in their respective applications to 
renal colic. In Nux there is pain down the right ureter into the 
genitals and leg, nausea and vomiting; in Tabacum, pains down the 
ureter, with deathly sickness and cold sweat. 

Veratriun album causes trismus with spasm of the glottis and 



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constriction of the chest, amounting almost to suffocation; the hands 
and feet are drawn inward, and the pupils are contracted. It may be 
distinguished from Strychnia by the fact that under Veratrum album 
the convulsions are secondary to exhausting diseases and are never 
primary, as under Strychnia. 

Stramonium, like Strychnia, causes tetanic convulsions, which are 
worse from touch or from light. The chief distinction is that with 
St? r amonium mania is almost always present, while under Strychnia the 
mind is clear to the last hours of life. 

Camphor is similar to Strychnia in tetanic spasms. It has showing 
of the teeth from drawing up of the corners of the mouth, but when 
Camphor is indicated in tetanic spasms, we find the ever-present 
deathly coldness. 

In studying Nux vomica, you should remember these prefatory re- 
marks. 

Next let me say that Nux vomica is complementary to Sulphur. By 
that I mean that after Nux vomica has done as much as its symptoms 
will allow it to do, very frequently the remaining symptoms find in 
Sulphur the remedy that will complete the cure. 

Now, let me give you the Nux vomica temperament. It does not 
necessarily follow that you must not use Nux if the constitution is not 
what I am going to describe; but it does follow that it acts better in 
the constitution about to be mentioned. Nux vomica is best adapted 
to rather thin, spare patients. It does not seem to act so well on the 
fleshy. Especially is it indicated if the patient is rather irascible and 
is quick and active in his motions. He has a nervous temperament. 
He is extremely susceptible to external impressions and hence cannot 
tolerate noise, odors or light. The face is rather sallow or yellowish. 
There is a sort of false plethora that gives the patient at times red 
cheeks on the yellow background. Generally, too, you will find that 
he suffers from any strain on the mind, particularly if this overtaxing 
of the mental powers is intensified or rendered more injurious by 
sedentary habits. Thus you will find the drug of great value for 
those who deprive themselves of sleep and exercise in pursuance of 
their studies. You will find it frequently indicated in ministers who 
take very little exercise and who have become dyspeptic. They have 
headache and are tired in the morning when they awake. The Nux 
patient frequently lies awake at night; the mind is so wrought up that 
he cannot sleep. Thoughts run through the mind in confusion. He 



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does not fall asleep until long after midnight, and then awakes in the 
early morning, perhaps at four or five o'clock. Falling asleep again, 
he awakes once more, feeling as if he had been on a spree, and his 
sleep had done him no good. He has a bitter taste in the mouth; the 
tongue is coated; he complains of dull headache, and, in fact, of every 
symptom that points to wearing out of the system from overwork. 
This, then, is the kind of patient in which you will find Nux vomica 
most effective. 

Nux may avert an oncoming cerebral softening especially when 
sedentary habits and severe mental strain have preceded it, as well as 
in cases where intemperance antedates the disease. The patient com- 
plains of headache when he exerts his mind. His memory is fickle, 
he is dizzy and his walk grows unsteady. The remedy may be fol- 
lowed by Phosphorus, Picric acid or Sulphur. 

The Nux patient, you will find, has a great deal of trouble with the 
digestive organs. He suffers from headache, situated either in the 
occiput or over one eye, usually the left. When the pain settles over 
the eye, it usually begins in the morning, and increases until night, 
and is accompanied generally by a sour taste in the mouth (less fre- 
quently by a bitter taste), by accumulation of flatus, and by annoy- 
ing retching. This may be associated with vomiting of food and of 
sour matter, but the prominent feature of the vomiting is the violent 
retching, often more or less ineffectual, showing the irritated condition 
of the stomach. He has the characteristic peculiarity of waking in 
the early morning and then falling asleep, only to awake again feeling 
worse than at first. The bowels are constipated; and this constipation 
consists, characteristically, in ineffectual urging to stool. Thus you 
see that it is not due to atony of the rectum, but to irregular, fitful ac- 
tion. He suffers, also, from gastralgia, which is usually made worse by 
eating. It is sometimes worse, however, when the stomach is empty- 
The pain starts in the epigastrium, and radiates in various directions, 
into the back, etc. The paroxysms are very apt to recur periodically 
every morning, and are often associated with vomiting of sour matter 
and ineffectual urging to stool. The pains themselves are of a griping, 
clawing character, as though a hand were scraping the inside of the 
stomach; they are often relieved by hot drinks. Now, you will notice 
that the symptoms I have mentioned for Nux vomica, if mentioned in 
pathological language, would have to be put under the term gastric irri- 
tability. The nerves are in such a state of hypersesthesia that the 



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ingestion of food causes spasmodic action of the stomach and ejection 
of its contents. This, you will notice, is pathologically similar to 
the condition of the rectum. 

In this extreme gastric irritability, we find Nux vomica a remedy 
without which we cannot well get along. You are treating a patient 
who has been prostrated by disease; as soon as he swallows food, up it 
comes. Nux is here one of the remedies to be thought of, particularly 
in children who are very excitable, and in men when they have in- 
dulged in excessive eating or in debauchery. 

In other cases, where there is much burning in the stomach with 
the violent ejection of food, Bismuth is the remedy. The Subnitrate 
of Bismuth is the remedy for pure gastralgia, that which is not associ- 
ated with any catarrh, or with any of the symptoms of indigestion. 
The epigastric pains may be burning, griping, or lancinating, extend- 
ing into the adjacent spine Pressure, heaviness and burning in the 
stomach, convulsive gagging. The patient vomits at intervals when 
the stomach becomes full, and then the amount of vomited matter is 
enormous. Water is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach. But 
unlike Nux, the pains are usually relieved by cold drinks, and, 
though the patient is greatly prostrated, the surface of the body is 
warm. 

In still other cases, we find Arsenicum the remedy, when, in addition 
to the burning pains, we have the intolerable restlessness and anxiety, 
thirst, etc. It produces a perfect picture of subacute gastritis. A 
remedy more valuable than any yet mentioned is Kreosote. Kreosote is 
excellent for this irritable weakness of the stomach. Food cannot be 
digested. But its distinctive character lies in the fact that, though 
the stomach retains the food several hours, it finally ejects it undi- 
gested. 

Another form of stomach trouble to which Nux is applicable is a 
dyspepsia in which there is marked aggravation an hour or so after 
eating. About twenty-four hours before the attack comes on, the 
patient complains of great hunger. He craves meats, gravies, and fat 
foods, and is averse to coffee. He has violent thirst, but water dis- 
tresses the stomach and causes distension; after even a light meal; he 
is obliged to loosen his clothing. He is troubled with sour and bitter 
eructations, and hiccough. 

In gastric symptoms following debauchery, when Nux fails, Carbo 
veg. is a good remedy, although Sulphur may be required. 



1 86 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Pulsatilla is preferable to Nux vomica when the symptoms have re- 
sulted from a mixed diet, such as meats, pastry, nuts, ice cream, etc., 
especially if the temperament agrees. 

In constipation, Nux is similar to several other remedies. Lyco- 
podium has constipation with ineffectual urging to stool, but under this 
remedy the ineffectual urging is caused by constriction of the rectum 
and anus. 

Carbo veg. has an urging to stool similar to that of Nux, but it 
is relieved by the passage of flatus, showing at once the cause of the 
urging. 

Under Opium, Bryonia, and Alumina the constipation is unattended 
by urging to stool. Opium has constipation from inactivity of the 
bowels; the stool consists of hard, round, black balls. 

The Bryonia constipation results from dryness of the alimentary 
tract. The stools are large, dry, and hard. 

Marked inactivity of the rectum characterizes Alumina. The 
evacuation of even a soft stool requires great effort. 

Nux vo7nica has a marked action on the liver. It is particularly in- 
dicated in liver affections in those who have indulged to excess in 
alcoholic liquors and highly-seasoned food, or who have abused them- 
selves with drastic purgatives. Nux is one of the best remedies we 
have to counteract the effects of allopathic dosing. In taking charge 
of a case that has been under old-school treatment you will frequently 
find it necessary to administer Nux before you can get a clear picture 
of the symptoms. In these cases you will often find the liver swollen, 
hard and sensitive to the pressure of the clothing. Colic is frequently 
present, and may come from an accumulation of flatus, which presses 
either upward toward the chest, producing inconvenience in breathing, 
or downward toward the rectum and bladder, developing both urging 
to stool and desire to urinate. Or it may be a hemorrhoidal colic. 
By this I mean abdominal pains which follow the sudden stoppage of 
hemorrhoidal flow. The patient has perhaps been subject for years 
to piles, with bleeding at stool. If from some cause, this flow is 
suddenly checked and headache or colic results, Nux will help him. 
If the liver is enlarged, you should give Nux in repeated doses, and 
you will often be gratified to find the liver resume its natural propor- 
tions. If it does not, then you must fall back on Sulphur, Sepia or 
Mag?iesia mur. 

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Here you may compare it with Sulphur, Lachesis, Fluoric acid, Arseni- 
cum and Ammonium mur. 

Nux vomica is also useful in jaundice provoked by violent anger, by 
abuse of quinine, or by too high living. The patient has attacks of 
faintness, after which he feels very weak. 

Chamomilla may be employed in jaundice resulting from a fit of 
anger, as also may Bryonia, Natrum sulph. and Aconite. 

Bryonia is especially useful in jaundice when the case has been 
spoiled by the abuse of calomel or blue mass. 

In jaundice from the effects of quinine you should compare Hepar, 
Mercurius, Pulsatilla and Arsenicum. 

Carduus ?narianus is indicated in jaundice with dull headache, 
bitter taste in the mouth, and white-coated tongue, especially in the 
middle, with the tips and edges red. There is nausea with vomiting 
of an acid green fluid. The stools are bilious, and the urine golden- 
yellow. There is an uncomfortable fulness in the region of the liver. 

In haemorrhoids, Nux may be useful when there is itching, keeping 
the patient awake at night, and frequently so severe as to compel 
him to sit in a tub of cold water for relief. There is frequent inef- 
fectual urging to stool, and the piles are apt to bleed. But unless Nux 
is thoroughly indicated in such cases, it should not be prescribed, for 
while it may cure the piles, it is likely to excite some other trouble 
more unbearable than the one it has relieved. 

The analogues of Nux in haemorrhoids are several. SEsculus hip- 
pocastanum is a wonderful remedy in abdominal plethora. You will 
find it indicated when there is throbbing deep in the abdomen, par- 
ticularly in the hypogastric region. The haemorrhoids, which may or 
may not bleed, are accompanied by a feeling of dryness in the rectum, 
as though little sticks or splinters were pricking the folds of the mu- 
cous membrane. This is the keynote for sEsculus. sEsculus also has 
weak feeling at the sacro-iliac symphysis, as though the back were 
about to give out at this point. 

The next remedy to be mentioned in this connection is Aloe. This 
drug has abdominal plethora and flatulence, like Nux and Sulphur, 
and haemorrhoids like Nux, Sulphur and Aisculus. But it differs from 
these remedies in that it acts almost entirely on the rectum, produc- 
ing catarrh of its mucous lining. The stools are accompanied by an ex- 
pulsion of copious flatus. The haemorrhoids protrude like a bunch of 
grapes and are greatly relieved by cold water. There is also a sort 



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of uncertainty about the rectum, shown in a feeling as if the bowels 
were about to move. Aloe also cures a headache which, like that of 
Nux vomica, is situated over the eyes. It is attended by a sensation 
as though a weight were pressing the eyelids down. Relief comes 
from partially closing the eyes. 

Collinsonia is indicated in haemorrhoids when there is a sensation 
of sticks in the rectum. Constipation is usual. The bowel symptoms 
are worse in the evening and at night. Collinsonia is also useful in 
prolapsus uteri complicated with haemorrhoids. It is just as fre- 
quently indicated in this condition as is Podophyllum in prolapsus uteri 
with diarrhoea and prolapsus recti. Collinsonia has a symptom found 
also under Opium, namely, dry balls of faecal matter are passed from 
the rectum; but they differ from those of Opium in that they are of a 
light color. 

Hamamelis is called for in haemorrhoids when there is considerable 
haemorrhage with marked soreness of the affected parts. The back 
feels as if it would break. 

Nux vomica may be used in diarrhoea coming on after a debauch. 
The patient is usually worse in the morning. The stools are papescent 
or watery, and are scanty and accompanied by urging, thus keeping 
up the character of the remedy. The patient retches in the morning, 
vomiting perhaps a little froth or sour fluid. He craves liquor, of 
course, but his stomach is so irritable that he vomits the stimulant as 
soon as it is taken. Such persons seem to be particularly intolerant 
of milk. 

We may give Nux in dysentery when there is frequent ineffectual 
urging to stool, ceasing as soon as the bowels move. The stools are 
bloody, slimy, watery and scanty. The patient is worse in the morn- 
ing. Nux is indicated by these symptoms whether the disease is the 
result of cold, or whether it comes from the suppression of an excre- 
tion, such as the perspiration. 

Mercurius is distinguished from Nux in dysentery by the fact that 
in the former the urging to stool does not cease with the evacuation, 
no matter how free the latter may be. 

Another concordant remedy in dysentery is Aloe. This drug is 
useful in dysentery when there is griping pain in the hypogastrium 
before stool, resembling Nux vomica very closely here. The stool 
consists of blood and mucus, coming out in jelly-like masses. The 
griping may or may not cease after stool. In addition, an extraordi- 
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Nux is a valuable remedy in hernia, whether inguinal or umbilical. 
It is indicated when, on rising in the morning, the patient complains 
of a feeling of weakness in the abdomen, particularly in the region of 
the inguinal canal. It affects especially the left side. 

Lycopodium may be used for right-sided inguinal hernia. 

Cocculus Indicus comes into play in umbilical hernia after Nux vom- 
ica has failed. 

Let us now study the action of Nux on the eyes. We find it indi- 
cated in many eye diseases. You may give Nux in ordinary con- 
junctivitis, particularly when it is worse in the morning. This period 
of aggravation is so well marked that it becomes characteristic of the 
drug. There is agglutination of the lids and photophobia in the morn- 
ing. For instance the child buries its head in the pillow in the morn- 
ing and forenoon, while in the afternoon it uses its eyes freely. These 
symptoms may also indicate the drug in scrofulous ophthalmia and in 
blepharospasmus. 

In inflamed eyes Euphrasia should be compared. It has the morn- 
ing agglutination but the photophobia is especially noticeable in arti- 
ficial light. The tears are profuse and acrid, causing the lids to smart, 
while with Nux the lid-edges itch and burn without discharge. 

In spasms of the eyelids Agariais is generally the best remedy, but 
you should consult also Belladonna, Natrum mur., Euphrasia, Pulsa- 
tilla, etc. 

Nux may also be indicated when the deeper structures of the eye 
are involved. For instance, it may be given in that dread disease, 
atrophy of the retina, whether it comes from choroido-retinitis or not. 

We find it indicated, too, in another condition of the retina, namely, 
retinal hyperesthesia. It is indicated by intolerance of light, worse 
in the morning ; the least attempt to use the eyes is followed by in- 
tense pains and spasmodic motion of the ocular muscles; with this 
there may be excoriating lachrymation and frequent pains in the top 
of the head. 

In amblyopia or impairment of vision due to the effects of tobacco 
and intoxicating liquors or of debauchery, no remedy will do more 
toward restoring the power of the weakened optic nerve. Even when 
atrophy has commenced, Nux will palliate if it does not entirely cure. 

Another condition in which you find Nux indicated is in ccchymoses 
of the sclerotic coat, when a certain amount of blood is effused beneath 
the conjunctiva. These often follow debauchery or sitting up late at 
night to study, in persons subject to dyspepsia. 



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If these ecchymoses are of traumatic origin, you should study 
Ledum, Arnica and Hamamelis. 

Now for Nux vomica in catarrhs. Nux is suited to the initial stages 
of the ordinary coryza, particularly when it has been caused by dry, 
cold weather, or by sitting in cold places, especially by sitting on cold 
steps. The trouble is associated with sneezing, and a stuffed-up sen- 
sation in the nose at night and in the open air, with fluent coryza in a 
warm room and during the da3^. The eyes water, and there is a scrap- 
ing rawness in the throat. These symptoms are associated with ach- 
ing all over and chilliness, worse from moving, even when covered up 
warmly in bed. 

The rawness of Nux differs from that of Mercurius. It is not a 
sore, raw feeling as if the skin were off, so much as it is a rough, 
scraping sensation. Mercurius is useful in coryza, with rawness and 
soreness of the nose and throat, with aggravation in damp weather. 

Pulsatilla is the remedy for a " ripe" cold, in which the discharge 
is green and bland. If Pulsatilla is prescribed in the beginning, it 
usually spoils the case. 

If, despite the use of Nux, the cold travels downward and involves 
the chest, I have found Phosphorus to follow well. 

There is an epistaxis curable by Nux vomica. It occurs in persons, 
of a hsemorrhoidal disposition, and is preceded by headache or red 
cheeks. It usually comes on at night during sleep, although it may 
occur at any time. 

Nux may also be used in Eustachian catarrh, when there is itching 
and tingling along the Eustachian tube, inducing a frequent desire to 
swallow. 

You will sometimes find symptoms of the mouth suggesting Nux as 
a remed}r. Ulcers form on the lips, accompanied by burning and 
sticking pains. Ulcers also appear on the gums. The stomacace of 
Nux vomica is of gastric origin. 

Cough is not a prominent symptom of Nux vomica. You may em- 
ploy it in coughs of nervous origin: for instance, in coughs which are 
provoked by mental work. It may also be used in coughs of gastric 
origin. The patient suffers from cough after eating and in the morn- 
ing. There is usually severe headache and soreness in the stomach 
and bowels. 

In diseases of the chest we do not find Nux indicated very fre- 
quently. It is sometimes useful in asthma, not often in the purely 



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nervous type, but commonly in that arising from gastric disturbance. 
It is associated with a feeling of fulness and oppression in the stom- 
ach, particularly manifested after a hearty meal, during which the 
patient must loosen all the clothing about the hypochondria in order 
to obtain relief. The abdomen is distended with flatus. The asth- 
matic symptoms are worse after a meal, after 12 o'clock at night, in 
the morning, and are always increased by cold air or any exertion, par- 
ticularly ascending a height. Belching relieves. 

There is a drug analogous to Nux vomica which is often overlooked 
by members of our school, and that is Zingiber. Zingiber or ginger, 
unless given too frequently, has a tonic effect on the stomach. It is 
not a safe article of food for children, or for those who have any kid- 
ney affection, as it rather favors the development of morbus Brightii. 
As a medicine, Zingiber may be used in asthma of gastric origin. The 
attacks come on in the night toward morning. The patient has to sit 
up to breathe, but despite the severity of the paroxysms, there seems 
to be no anxiety. 

Carbo veg. and Lycopodium are similar to Nux in asthma from ab- 
dominal irritation with marked flatulence. 

In haeinopt3^sis or blood-spitting, Nux vomica is indicated when the 
trouble results from debauchery. The attack usually appears after a 
drunken spree or after some violent emotion, such as anger, but it 
may also result from suppressed haemorrhoidal flow. 

Nux vomica is a useful remedy in diseases of the genito- urinary 
organs. It is indicated in renal colic, when one kidney, usually the 
right, is the seat of the disease. The pains extend into the genital 
organs and down the leg, and they are usually associated with intense 
backache. We must here differentiate Nux from Lycopodium, Can- 
tharis, Belladonna and Berberis. 

Lycopodium, like Nux, usually chooses the right side, but the pains 
extend along the course of the ureter and end in the bladder; they do 
not descend the leg. The backache is relieved by urination. It may 
be given after Nux. 

One of the best remedies during the parox3 r sms of renal colic is 
Cantharis , which relieves the patient by lessening the amount of local 
irritation and thus permitting nature to get rid of the stone with less 
suffering to the patient. 

Belladonna is another remedy for renal calculi. The pains are of a 
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192 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

they come suddenly and radiate in various directions from the central 
point of irritation. The patient grows feverish and excitable. Bella- 
donna relaxes the spasmodic constriction caused by the stone and al- 
lows it to pass more readily. 

Berberis is an excellent remedy for renal calculi. The pains are of 
a shooting character. The patient cannot make the slightest motion, 
and must sit bent over toward the painful side to obtain relief. If, in 
addition, he complains of sharp, darting pains following the direction 
of the ureter and extending into the legs, there is no remedy like Ber- 
beris. You find in the urine a reddish deposit, consisting of mucus, 
epithelium, and amorphous urates. 

Berberis sometimes has biliary calculi associated with the renal dis- 
ease. Belladonna is also useful in cholelithiasis, but the remedy to 
cure the condition permanently is Cinchona. This has been highly 
recommended by Dr. Thayer, of Boston. Unless some symptom or 
symptoms call specifically for another drug, put your patient on a 
course of Cinchona and have him continue it for a number of months. 

In the passage of gall-stones, when remedies fail to relieve, I find 
that ether, externally and internally, is very good, acting better here 
than chloroform. 

We find Nux indicated in hematuria, when it is traceable to the 
same cause as the haemoptysis described above, namely, to debauchery. 

Nux vomica is indicated also in affections of the bladder, particu- 
larly in strangury accompanied by painful urging to urinate, with the 
passage of only a few drops at a time, causing burning and scalding 
and other uncomfortable sensations. With this urging to urinate 
there is also urging to stool. 

In gonorrhoea Nux is useful after the abuse of cubebs or copaiva, 
when the discharge is thin. Sometimes I have noticed that after gon- 
orrhoea has been cured so far as the discharge is concerned, the patient 
still complains of irritation far back in the urethra, probably in the 
prostate, causing an uncomfortable feeling which the patient refers to 
the root of the penis. Nux often relieves this condition. 

Nux is useful in sexual excesses, especially for the bad effects of 
early masturbation. It is one of a group of remedies used in these 
cases ever since the days of Hahnemann. This group consists of Nux 
vomica, Sulphur, Calcarea carb. and Lycopodium. Nux is to be given 
when the patient has headache, frequent involuntary emissions at 
night, especially towards morning; he complains of backache and 



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difficulty in walking. Do not repeat your medicine too often, and 
when improvement ceases under Nux, Sulphur will almost always be 
the next remedy indicated. 

Calcarea carb. usually follows Nux and Sulphur, particularly when 
night sweats follow every emission; or, after marriage, every coitus is 
followed by weakness of mind and body. 

Lycopodiu?n is indicated still later, when the case has gone on to 
complete impotency. The erections are either absent or imperfect. 
The genitals are cold and somewhat shrivelled. 

Staphisagria is called for in the bad effects of masturbation, particu- 
larly if there is great emaciation, with dark rings about the eyes, sal- 
low face, and well-marked peevishness and shyness. 

There is still another remedy which I would mention in this connec- 
tion, and this is Cobalt. This is an excellent remedy for backache in 
the lumbar region, following seminal emissions, whether voluntary or 
involuntary; the backache is particularly worse while sitting. 

Nux is indicated in a variety of diseases of the female sexual organs. 
We find that it has caused and therefore can cure prolapsus uteri. It 
is to be used when the disease is of recent origin, and has resulted 
from a sudden wrenching of the body. These symptoms are often 
associated with constipation accompanied by ineffectual urging to 
stool. If Nux does not entirely cure, the best remedy to follow it is 
Sepia. 

The menses, under Nux vomica, are almost always profuse, are gen- 
erally dark in color and are accompanied by retching and cramps in 
the abdomen. The patient has frequent fainting spells about the time 
of the menses, especially when in a warm room. 

During pregnancy, Nux is a useful remedy for the morning sick- 
ness. The patient rises in the morning feeling haggard and sick at 
the stomach. The more retching predominates over vomiting, the 
more can we expect of Nux vomica. Jaundice, even, may be present. 
The skin is sallow, the bowels are constipated, and the appetite is lost. 
Still later, the patient complains of great pressure upward, as though 
she could not breathe. 

During labor, Nux is the remedy when the constipation calls for it. 
The labor pains may be very spasmodic and severe; the woman has 
a constant inclination to stool and urine. This symptom, when Nux 
is the remedy, is not due to mechanical causes, such as the pressure of 
the child's head, but it is purely of reflex origin. Frequently, you 
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will find fainting during the pains, or the pains begin in the back and 
descend thence to the buttocks and thighs. We may also give Nux 
when the labor pains nearly or entirely cease, exactly as in Pulsatilla. 
The temperament of the patient will enable you to decide between the 
two. 

Nux is often useful to prevent the return of metrorrhagia, preced- 
ing the climaxis or during labor. There are the urging to stool, faint- 
ness, etc., already mentioned. 

Now let us take up the action of Nux vomica on the spine. It pro- 
duces, as we have seen when speaking of Strychnia, irritation of the 
motor centres and efferent nerves. The backache cured by Nux is 
that located in the lumbar region. It is usually worse at night when 
lying in bed, and the patient cannot turn over without sitting up. It 
is thus useful in lumbago. The longer he lies in bed in the morning 
the more does his back ache. 

Picric acid should be mentioned here. This substance is known 
chemically as trinitrophenol, and is a violent poison. It is to be 
thought of when, after every severe mental effort, the patient suffers 
from intense headache of a throbbing character, felt more particularly 
at the base of the brain. There is often an accompanying congestion 
of the spine, with an increase of sexual excitement, so that erections, 
become violent enough to be termed priapism. 

Nux vomica is indicated in torticollis, arising from cold or due to 
spinal disease. 

Belladonna is the best remedy for stiff neck of rheumatic origin or 
from cold. The stiffness is apt to be on the left side. 

Causticum has stiffness of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle of the 
right side, with drawing. The torticollis may be due to paralytic 
weakness, as in affections involving the spinal accessory nerve. Here 
Agaricus and Lachnanthes are also to be compared. 

In spinal irritation you must use Nux when the backache just de- 
scribed is present in association with the following symptoms. Sud- 
den loss of power in the legs in the morning; the hands and feet go to 
sleep easily; stiffness and tension in the hollow of the knees; the 
clothing about the waist feels too tight; sensation as of a band about 
the waist; desire to lie down; numbness and formication along the 
spine and in* the extremities. These symptoms also indicate Nux in 
myelitis, and in the early stages of locomotor ataxia, especially when 
the trouble has occurred from exposure to cold or from sexual ex- 
cesses. 



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Phosphorus is in many respects very similar to Nux. Both cause an 
increase in impressionability; both cause spinal anaemia. But Phos- 
phorus tends toward complete paralysis, Nux generally toward partial 
paralysis dependent upon exhaustion. Both have proved useful in 
spinal softening. 

Physostigma has a symptomatology almost typical of spinal irrita- 
tion. Under this drug every nerve of spinal origin is irritated. Press- 
ure of the finger between the vertebrae causes the patient to wince. 
Physostigma causes rigidity of the muscles from meningeal irritation. 
It finally develops trismus and tetanus. 

Ambra grisea, like Nux vomica, is suited to thin, " dried up," nerv- 
ous subjects. It has marked numbness of the skin. Various parts of 
the body go to sleep readily. There are also stiffness in the small of 
the back after sitting and tension in the lumbar muscles, worse on 
awaking. Even the scrotum and penis feel numb. Patients who 
complain of these symptoms are apt to be excessively nervous and 
weak. In company they are easily embarrassed and speak and act 
hastily. They are driven by nervousness to an impetuous desire to 
talk, but quickly give out (like Cocculus, Veratrum album, Calcarea 
ostrearum, Alumina, Sulphur, and Kali carb.). Conversation and ex- 
ercise quickly cause fatigue. 

Asarum Europoeum is suited to still another style of nervousness. It 
is especially adapted to irritable females, who are so exceedingly sen- 
sitive that even the thought of any one scratching silk or making some 
similar noise causes an aggravation of their symptoms. 

Castoreum is indicated when females are nervous and do not react 
after sickness. Hence, it may be used after typhoid, especially when 
the patients are subject to headaches which leave the head very sensi- 
tive to touch. These are attended by tingling, creeping sensations 
which are relieved by sleep. 

Nux is useful in rheumatism when it involves the larger joints and 
muscles. It is especially indicated in rheumatism of the trunk. The 
swelling in the joints is usually rather pale. The symptoms are almost 
always worse towards morning. 

Nux has been recommended for the acne of drunkards and also for 
acne from eating too much cheese. Constipation from eating cheese 
requires Colocynth. 

Sulphur should be preferred when, with other symptoms, the face 
is red in blotches, and Ledum when there are red blotches and 



196 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

pimples in which sticking is induced by every least touch. Kreosote 
and Lachesis are also to be compared with Nux in this condition. 

Next we shall look at Nux vomica in typhoid fevers. In the selec- 
tion of Nux in such cases, you are guided by the gastric and bilious 
symptoms, bitter taste in the mouth, especially in the morning, nau- 
sea, vomiting of bile, and characteristic constipation of the drug. The 
weakness which necessarily belongs to the typhoid state is expressed 
under Nux by a strong inclination to lie down. The nights are passed 
in nervous, excited sleep; slight noises cause him to start. He moans 
and whimpers in his slumber and his dreams are full of bustle and 
hurry. He may even be delirious. 

Nux vomica is useful in intermittent types of fever, when the chill 
is preceded or accompanied by blueness of the finger-nails; gaping and 
yawning are well marked. There is always aching in the limbs and 
in the back; this is followed by fever, and that by sweat. During 
the apyrexia we have prominent gastric and bilious symptoms. 

A peculiarity of Nux well worthy of mention is that it seems to in- 
tensify the action of Sepia. The same relation exists between Sepia 
and Lilium tigrinum, and between Sulphur and Mercury. Nux vom- 
ica is inimical to Zincum. 

The Nux patient is always better after an uninterrupted sleep. Led: 
by this symptom, Dr. P. P. Wells cured his friend, Dr. Dunham, of 
diphtheria with Nux, a characteristic symptom of the case being 
marked relief from a nap. When the sleep is disturbed, the Nux 
patient is always worse. Early in the evening he is irresistibly 
drowsy. 

Nux acts best when given in the evening. According to Hahne- 
mann, sensitive persons should not take it fasting in the morning or 
on first awaking, because its most powerful symptoms are then called 
out. Neither should it be taken just before or after a meal, or when 
the mind is on a strain. 



LECTURE XVII. 

IGNATIA AMARA. 

Ignatia Amara, or, more properly speaking, Strychnos ignatia, is 
a large climbing shrub growing in the Phillipine Islands and in 
Cochin-China. The fruit is spherical or ovoid, and about four inches 
in diameter. Its shell is smooth and brittle, and encloses some twenty 
or thirty seeds. Its name is attributed to the Jesuits, who called it 
St. Ignatius' s bean, in honor of its virtues. Though chemically and 
botanically similar to Nux vomica, Ignatia differs materially from that 
remedy in symptomatology, and this, too, despite strong family re- 
semblances. 

Ignatia is preeminently a spinal remedy, as is also Nux vomica. 
Like the latter, it seems to intensify the impressionability of all the 
senses, perhaps even more than Nux does. Under Nux, however, 
this over-excitability is exhibited by anger, vehemence and irasci- 
bility; in Ignatia, by melancholy with tendency to weeping. Now, 
while there is this melancholy tearful mood, yet the patient smothers 
her grief. The Ignatia patient nurses her sorrows, keeping them 
from others, while the Nux vomica patient is vehement and angry; he 
strikes any one who may oppose him; he is so overbearing that one can 
scarcely live with him. You must separate this melancholy mood of 
Ignatia from that of Pulsatilla. 

The Pulsatilla woman is tearful, sad, and melancholy like Ignatia, 
but there is not that introspective mood which develops in the Ignatia 
patient. She makes her grief known to every one who comes near 
her. She seeks sympathy. She is timid and yielding in her disposi- 
tion. 

We find Ignatia indicated in nervous women who are burdened with 
grief, particularly when they dwell upon their troubles in secret. 
Such cases find relief in Ig?iatia, especially when of recent origin. 

For the chronic or long-lasting effects of grief, we have Phosphoric 
acid and Natrum muriaticum. Often when the former remedy is indi- 
cated, the patient complains of night sweats, not from organic dis- 
ease, but from sheer exhaustion. She has little or no appetite, and 



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complains of a sensation as of heavy pressure on the top of the head, 
as though a great load lay there. Emaciation, .ennui, and night 
sweats are characteristic symptoms. In some cases the symptoms are 
such as to make Phosphorus preferable to Phosphoric acid. 

Natrum mur. is very similar to Ignatia in its mental state but shows 
more of irascibility with its melancholy. Consolation aggravates and 
elicits an angry rebuff. There is headache in the vertex, emaciation 
and tremulous palpitation from every strange noise. When Ignatia 
fails to remove the symptoms entirely Natrum muriaticum frequently 
comes in to complete the cure. 

Ignatia we find, then, to be useful for the ill-effects of grief, and 
also, by reason of this great sensitiveness to external impressions 
which it produces, greater even than that of Nux vomica, we find it 
indicated in hysteria, especially when the patient alternately laughs 
and cries, or, in other words, exhibits a changeable mood. The face 
flushes at every emotion. Sometimes the laughing becomes spasmodic 
and ends in screams and even spasms of the chest with blueness of the 
face. We have also globus hystericus or feeling as if a ball were 
rising in the throat. This is often relieved by belching, while drink- 
ing water causes an aggravation of the convulsive action in the throat. 
The patient may fall into a half unconscious state, with clenched 
thumbs and blue face, as we find under Cuprum. Finally a sigh and 
a long-drawn breath announces the return to consciousness. Now 
let us consider some of the concordant remedies of Ignatia in these 
hysterical states. 

Platina is indicated in hysterical women with violent mania or lofty, 
supercilious mood. 

Hyoscyamus is called for when the mental condition of the patient 
exhibits marked jealousy. She is full of suspicions. She fears that 
she will be poisoned, and may on that account refuse all food and 
medicine. 

Asafcetida, like Ignatia, has the globus hystericus; flatus accumu- 
lates in the abdomen and, pressing up against the lungs, produces op- 
pression of breathing. It is especially useful in hysterical convulsions 
after suppression of discharges. 

Moschus is particularly suited when the patient faints readily. She 
sits down to her meals and faints dead away from taking even a small 
amount of food into the stomach. She also has violent spasms of the 
chest, in which it would almost seem that she must die. She turns 



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blue in the face and foams at the mouth. She may be of a scolding 
disposition, and even this causes fainting. 

Valerian is useful in these hysterical women, when the slightest ex- 
ertion causes violent headache. They often complain of a sensation as 
if a string were hanging down into the throat. In the latter part of 
the evening, they exhibit a tendency to flushes of heat. The slightest 
pain causes fainting. They complain of a warm sensation rising from 
the stomach into the throat with the globus hystericus. You will 
often have to use Valerian for pains in the limbs, which simulate those 
of rheumatism. They are worse while the patient sits and better 
when she walks about. 

Cocculus has a mood somewhat like that of Ignatia, Sensitive, 
anxious, with frightened look; loss of memory, mental confusion, 
vertigo; spasms of the uterus; great weakness and nausea even to 
fainting. A sort of semi-paralytic condition pervades the whole 
body: choking constriction in the upper part of the fauces with diffi- 
cult breathing; hysterical palsy. These symptoms in Cocculus are 
usually the result of night watching or loss of sleep. 

Nux moschata is indicated in hysteria, associated with frequent emo- 
tional changes and enormous bloating of the abdomen after a light 
meal. The patient complains of an overpowering drowsiness and of 
excessive dryness of the mouth, even when that cavity exhibits the 
normal degree of moisture. There is also a marked tendency to faint. 

Belladonna is indicated in hysterical states, when the patient is 
boisterous and wild, with red face, etc. 

The Valerianate of Zinc I have used for a common symptom of hys- 
terical persons and of nervous patients generally, and that is, what has 
been termed the fidgets. They cannot sit still, or the}' must keep the 
legs in constant motion. I have used it, and I do not remember to 
have failed to cure in a single instance. This uneasiness of the feet is 
not an uncommon symptom in old cases of uterine disease; I usually 
give the remedy in the second or third potency. 

The headache of Ignatia is usually situated in one spot in the head, 
just as though a nail were being driven into the skull at that point. 
Any little mental work, or in fact any work that is irksome or more 
severe than usual, any strong odor, whether pleasant or otherwise, 
any emotion which would be borne without trouble by one whose nerv- 
ous system was in a natural state, may bring on this headache. The 
attack often ends with vomiting. These headaches are often periodical, 



200 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

returning every two days. They often terminate with a copious flow 
of pale, limpid urine. Several other remedies have headache, relieved 
by copious urination. They are: Aconite, Gelsemium, Kalmia, Meli- 
lotus, Sanguinaria , Silicea and Veratrum album. Sometimes the Ignatia 
headache is of a throbbing character, worse in the eyes, and about the 
eyebrows and the root of the nose; it is relieved for a time by a change 
of position. Again, Ignatia may be indicated in headache, when the 
head feels heavy, as if from congestion, and yet the pain is better 
from leaning forward; sometimes aggravation occurs from stooping, 
thus giving us what Hahnemann calls an alternate effect. The 
Ignatia headaches are aggravated by talking or listening intently, and 
by coffee. 

The power of Ignatia to produce increased excitability renders it 
useful in spasms, not only of hysterical origin, but also in those occur- 
ring in delicate women who are not hysterical, and in children. The 
spasms are excited by emotions, such as fright or fear. For example, 
the child has a convulsion after being punished. Afterward, when 
the child goes to sleep, there is whimpering in the sleep. Under 
ordinary circumstances the child will get over the trouble without any 
treatment; but if it happens to be extremely delicate, or if the trouble 
occurs during the period of dentition, or there is some reason for fear- 
ing convulsions or hydrocephalus, Ig?iatia may prevent a great deal of 
trouble. During the convulsions in which Ignatia is the remedy, you 
will usually find the face deathly pale, although at times it is flushed. 
There is twitching of individual muscles, particularly those about the 
eyelids or the mouth, and the child stiffens out. As was said before, 
Ignatia is especially indicated when the convulsions have appeared 
after grief, fright, or some violent emotion. 

Nervous women in labor may require Ignatia for spasms. These 
spasms, however, are to be distinguished from those calling for Bella- 
donna, Stra?nonium, etc., by the absence of fever or severe conges- 
tion, and from Hyoscyamus by the absence of unconsciousness or 
mania. 

In these convulsions produced by emotions, unless you have clearly 
in your mind the distinctions between several remedies, you may not 
make so prompt a cure as you should. Opium, like Ig?ialia, is a rem- 
edy for the immediate effects of emotions. It does little or no good 
for the protracted effects. It, too, is worse after punishment, fright 
or fear. The body stiffens out, and the mouth and the muscles of the 



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face twitch. Thus far it is exactly like Ignatia. The distinction lies 
in this particular: under Opium the face is dark red and bloated, and 
the spasms are more frequently associated with loud screams than 
under Ignatia. 

Glonoin produces sudden violent congestions of the head, as does 
Opium. Like Opium and Ignatia, it may be used for the sudden 
effects of violent emotions. In the convulsions the fingers are spread 
asunder and extended, a symptom which you also find under Secale. 

Veratrum album also is suitable for convulsions after sudden violent 
emotions, but the face is cold and blue, with cold sweat on the fore- 
head. 

Hyoscyamus has sudden starting and twitching of the muscles, more 
so than Ignatia; one arm will twitch and then the other. The motions 
are all angular. There is a great deal of frothing at the mouth. The 
patient seems to be wild. 

Belladonna is probably more frequently indicated than any other 
remedy for convulsions following violent emotions, anger, etc., with 
bright red face, wild straining eyes, hot head, and spasms of the 
glottis. 

Opium is probably the best remedy when, from fright of the wet- 
nurse, the child has retention of urine. 

Cuprum is indicated in convulsions where the fingers are clenched. 
There is marked blueness of the face and mouth. Any attempt to 
swallow fluids causes gurgling in the throat. 

Chamomilla is useful in convulsions of children after any emotion. 
It is easily distinguished from Ignatia by the petulant angry disposi- 
tion of the child. One cheek is red and the other pale, and there is 
hot sweat about the face and head. 

There is a sore throat curable by Ignatia. The patient complains 
of a sensation as though there were a plug in the throat, worse when 
not swallowing. Examining the tonsils, you find them studded with 
small superficial ulcers having a yellowish-white color. There is a 
constricted feeling about the throat, with a great deal of nervousness 
and insomnia. 

The cough of Ignatia arises from constriction of the larynx, or from 
a sensation as of a feather there. The more the patient coughs, the 
worse does the tickling become. 

Ignatia may be used in chills and fever when there is thirst during 
the chill, and when the warmth of the stove or other artificial heat 



202 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

relieves the chill. This is not a common symptom. It is very different 
from Nux vomica, which usually finds no relief from covering up or 
from the heat of the stove. Capsicum has relief from applying the 
hot water bottle. Lachesis has longing for the heat of the fire, yet the 
chill is not shortened thereby. Arsenicum has chill relieved by 
warmth. Other remedies are Rhus fox., Menyanthes, Nux moschata 
and Sabadilla. 

The action of Ignatia on the genital organs must also be mentioned, 
as we find it indicated in dysmenorrhcea, associated with what is 
termed menstrual colic; that is, when there is a great deal of bearing 
down in the hypogastric region. The patient exhibits hysterical symp- 
toms. The pains are labor-like in character, and are seemingly re- 
lieved by pressure, by lying down, and by change of position. The 
menses are dark, frequent and copious. 

The nearest remedy here is Cocculus Indicus. This has uter- 
ine spasms and dark menstrual flow, but the backache always en- 
ables you to differentiate this drug from others. It has a weak, lame 
feeling in the small of the back, as though the patient were about 
to be paralyzed. The limbs tremble when she begins to walk. In 
addition to this, she often complains of a feeling of emptiness or hol- 
lowness in various cavities of the body, especially in the chest and- 
abdomen. 

Pulsatilla is at times indicated for this menstrual colic, particularly 
when the menses are dark in color and delayed. The flow is usually 
fitful. The patient is apt to be chilly, and the more severe the pains 
are, the more chilly does the patient become. 

Chamomilla is a third drug similar to Ig?iatia in uterine spasms. It 
is indicated by the mental symptoms. The patient is so cross that she 
can scarcely answer any one civilly. 

I would like you to remember also Magnesia mur., which is indi- 
cated in uterine spasms accompanying induration of the uterus, whether 
of a scirrhous nature or not. 

Actea racemosa is called for in uterine spasms when the pains fly 
across the hypogastrium from side to side. 

In disorders of digestion Ignatia is useful when the patient com- 
plains of bitter or sour-tasting mucus in the mouth and copious saliva- 
tion. There is fanciful aversion to certain foods. He asks for a cer- 
tain food, but after tasting, refuses it. Food may be regurgitated. 
Gastralgia is present. He has hiccough, aggravated by eating and 



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smoking, and, especially in children, by emotions. There is an empty, 
gone feeling at the epigastrium, with qualmishness. In some cases 
there is empty retching, relieved by eating. The patient vomits at 
night the food taken in the evening. The bowels are disordered. 

Hyoscyamus is one of our best remedies for hiccough occurring after 
operations on the abdomen. 

Stramonium and Veratrum album for hiccough after hot drinks, and 
Arsenicum and Pulsatilla after cold drinks. 

Teucrium marum verum is useful in jerking hiccough after nursing. 

Cajuputum suits hiccough coming on the slightest provocation 
{Sulphuric acid). There is spasmodic stricture of the oesophagus, 
the tongue feels swollen. Flatulence is present. 

Ammonium muriaticum is characterized by hiccough with stitches 
in the chest, and empty, gnawing sensation in the stomach after a full 
meal. 

Igjiatia is useful in prolapsus ani, which may or may not be accom- 
panied by haemorrhoids. You have as a characteristic symptom sharp 
stabbing pains shooting up into the rectum. This prolapsus ani may 
annoy the patient, even if there is soft stool. There is distressing 
constriction at the anus, aggravated after stool, and better while sit- 
ting. Itching and creeping at the anus as from ascarides, in which 
condition Ignatia is sometimes an excellent remedy. 

Indigo is said to be a good remedy for ascarides, especially in mel- 
ancholy children. Honey given night and morning will act as a pal- 
liative. Teucrium should also be thought of in this connection. 

Ignatia produces a variety of symptoms referable to the eye, making 
it a useful remedy in several diseases of that organ. Like Agarzcus, 
it has nictitation of the eye-lids, with spasmodic action of the facial 
muscles. There are neuralgic pains about the eyes. These are ex- 
ceedingly severe, and are often associated with the globus hystericus. 
Ignatia may also be useful in phlyctenular ophthalmia, when there is 
intense photophobia and a feeling of sand in the eyes. 

The toothache of Ignatia is worse between than during acts of eat- 
ing. Now this is in perfect harmony with the throat symptoms of the 
drug; that is, there is a feeling as of a lump in the throat which is not 
felt during but between the acts of deglutition. The "lump" may 
feel sore while swallowing, but it is felt more markedly between acts 
of deglutition. This symptom has led to the selection of Ignatia in 
aphthous sore-throat (the tonsils being swollen and studded with white 
flat patches), and even in diphtheria. 



204 A CIvINICAIv MATERIA MEDICA. 

Zincum holds a very peculiar relation to Ignatia and to Nux vomica. 
It follows Ignatia well, while it is inimical to Nux vomica. 

Natrum muriaticum follows Ignatia well, especially in mental ail- 
ments. 






LECTURE XVIII. 

SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA, CURARE AND THE 
JUGLANDACE^E. 

Spigelia. 

Spigelia is another member of the order LoganiacecE. To under- 
stand it as a remedy is not a difficult thing to do, if we start with the 
idea that it acts on the nerves, having as a grand characteristic, neu- 
ralgia. Associated with these neuralgic symptoms we almost always 
find symptoms sympathetic from the head, whether these be neuralgic 
or not. Mentally, we find the patient exhibiting fear, anxiety, fore- 
bodings, as though something were about to happen. This is a very 
common symptom with nervous, neuralgic subjects, especially those 
whose nerves are very much weakened. Another symptom which 
sometimes appears is fear of pointed things; for instance, the patient 
is afraid of pins. There is often, also, precordial anguish. 

The neuralgia itself, if it involves the head, begins in the occiput, 
coming forward and settling over the left eye. It may also in- 
volve the cheeks, especially the left. There are burning, jerking, 
tearing pains, worse from any noise or from any jarring of the body. 
They are usually aggravated by change of weather, and are especially 
worse in stormy weather. At the acme of the pain there is often bil- 
ious vomiting. The period of exacerbation is marked. The pain be- 
gins in the morning with the sun, increases during the day, and di- 
minishes toward evening. 

We often find Spigelia indicated in sick-headache when the patient 
can bear neither noise nor jarring of the body. 

This remedy is our mainstay in ciliary neuralgia. The pain may be 
in either eye; more frequently, however, it is in the left. There may 
be photophobia from slight retinitis; sharp stabbing pains in the eye, 
or radiating from the eye. The supraorbital region is tender to touch. 
The eye-ball feels swollen, or as if it were too large for the orbit. As- 
sociated with these symptoms are lachrymation and coryza. 

Three remedies are here to be compared with Spigelia. The first of 
them is Mezereum. This is useful in ciliary neuralgia. The pains 



206 A CUNICAE MATERIA MEDICA. 

radiate and shoot downward. There is a cold feeling as though a 
stream of cold air were blowing on the eye. Mezereum is especially 
indicated when the bones are involved, a frequent sequence of 
mercury. 

Another remedy useful in ciliary neuralgia is Thuja. I^ike Mezer- 
eum, it has a cold feeling in the eye, but the pains take the opposite 
direction; they go upward and backward instead of downward. 

Still another remedy to be thought of is Cedron, which has neuralgia 
recurring at the same hour with clock-like regularity. 

Spigelia is a valuable heart remedy. It is to be thought of when 
there are sharp stitching pains referred to the left chest, shooting into 
the arm and neck; on placing the hand over the heart, there is a 
peculiar ' ' purring ' ' feeling. The patient is worse from the slightest 
motion of the hands or arms. He cannot lie down. The pulse is not 
synchronous with the heart-beat'. 

Spigelia may be used for worms. It should be given when there are 
strabismus from abdominal irritation, jerking over the eyes, paleness 
of the face, with blue rings around the eyes. The patient feels faint 
and nauseated on awaking in the morning, when there is also hunger, 
which is relieved by eating breakfast; there is colic, worse about the 
navel; stool consisting of mucus, fseces and worms. 

Curare. 

Curare or Woorari, the famous arrow poison of South America, is 
derived from the bark of the Strychnos toxifera. The commercial 
preparation is a brownish-black paste of variable composition, the 
most active ingredient being the alkaloid Cttrarine, 

Curare acts on the periphery of the motor nerves, producing para- 
lysis of motion without any disturbance of sensation. When taken 
internally it causes violent symptoms, sudden vertigo associated with 
great weakness of the legs. Sooner or later this is followed by vomit- 
ing of bile. Some time ago I treated a man with cirrhotic liver. 
Every morning, at ten or eleven o'clock, he had an attack of bilious 
vomiting, followed by a chill. The vomiting continued for three or 
four weeks, and nothing seemed to stop it. But as he had the dizzy 
feeling just mentioned, I finally gave him Curare 500th, and it stopped 
the vomiting very promptly. The man lived two or three months 
after that. 



JUGLANDACE^. 207 

Dr. Pitet, of Paris, recommends Curare for the dyspnoea of emphy- 
sema when the patient seems to be pretty far gone. He administers 
the drug in the 3d or 6th potency. 

Closely allied to Nux vomica are certain remedies derived from the 
order — 

JUGIyANDACE^S. 

All the Juglandaceae seem to produce a condition of the blood in 
which that fluid becomes dark and pitch-like in color. They all cause 
haemorrhages. 

Juglans regia, or the walnut, is useful for menses which come on 
too soon, and are composed of nothing but black coagula. 

All the members of the order cause cutaneous eruptions. The most 
important here is Juglans cinerea, sometimes called Juglans cathartica. 

Juglans cinerea is one of our best remedies in occipital headache. 
The pains are of a sharp, shooting character; when this symptom is 
present you may use the remedy in diseases of the brain or spinal 
cord. 

Juglans ci?ierea also causes jaundice, just like Nux vomica, with 
stitching pains about the liver, and pain under the right scapula 
(Chelidonium and Bryonia); the patient wakes at three o'clock in the 
morning and cannot go to sleep; these symptoms are often associated 
with the occipital headache just described. The stools are bilious, 
or yellowish green, burning the anus, and associated with tenesmus. 

In dropsy of the chest, Juglans cinerea is useful when there are red 
spots on the skin, looking very much like flea-bites. 



LECTURE XIX. 

ARACEiE. 

Thk order of plants which we shall study to-day is the Aracece, or, 
more correctly speaking, the Aroidece. The plants in this group all 
contain in their juices an acrid principle in more or less quantity. The 
Diffenbachia , when taken into the mouth, produces a frightful stoma- 
cace; the mouth is covered with a yellowish-white membrane; ulcers 
form upon the lips, tongue and fauces. This drug was proved by 
one of the students of this College. Since then it has been used in the 
treatment of violent forms of stomacace. 

The members of this order which we shall consider are Arum 
biphyllum, Arum dracontium , Caladium seguinum, Pothos fcetida, 
Acorus (of which we know little or nothing), and Diffenbachia. 



' Ailanthus, Ammonium causticum, Nit- 
ric acid. 
[ Arum triphyllum \ Muriatic acid, I^ycopodium. 
I Selenium. 
(^ Graphites. 



Caladium 



Aracese < 



Dracontium 
Pothos fcetida 
Acorus 
v Diffenbachia 



Balsam of Peru. 
Pix liquida. 
Guaiacum. 
I Eryodiction Californicum. 



Arum Triphyixum. 

The so-called " Jack in the pulpit " is the first drug in the order for 
our consideration. This remedy has an interesting history. Some 
twenty-five years ago there appeared an epidemic of scarlet fever, in 
the course of which nearly every case that was not promptly cured in 
the beginning died. The percentage of losses under homoeopathic as 
well as under other systems of treatment was truly frightful. The 
reason for this was that we had no remedy which covered the symp- 
toms of the epidemic. In a poor family, living in a small street, there 



arace^:. 209 

were five children sick with this epidemic form of scarlatina. The 
physician who was called to attend them had lost so many cases 
under the usual remedies that he thought it useless to have recourse to 
these. He thought it better to try something new. Arum trip hy Hum 
had only been experimented with to a certain degree, but still it had 
been known to produce certain symptoms which led him to the selec- 
tion of the drug, which he administered in a low potency. All the 
cases recovered. It was afterward prescribed in other cases during 
the same epidemic, with marked success. From that time to this, 
Arum triphyllum has been looked upon as a valuable drug in the treat- 
ment of diphtheria, malignant forms of scarlet fever, and also other 
fevers having a typhoid form. 

In scarlatina, we may use Arum triphyllum when there is an ex- 
coriating discharge from the nose and mouth, making the nose and 
upper lip raw and sore. The tongue swells; its papillae are large and 
red, giving it a rough feeling comparable to a cat's tongue. The 
throat is very sore, and the tonsils are much swollen. There is often 
a dry cough which hurts the child so much that he cringes under it 
and involuntarily puts the hands to the throat as if to modify the pain. 
The discharge from the mouth, also, makes the lips and surrounding 
parts of the face sore, cracked and bleeding, even the saliva itself be- 
ing very acrid; scabs form; the child will not open his mouth. He is 
excitable and irritable in mind as well as in body. Thus, you see that 
Arum triphyllum is an exceedingly irritating drug. The child is 
restless, tosses about, is cross and sleepless at night. The eruption 
may come out very well and there may be double desquamation. At 
other times the rash is dark and imperfectly developed; the child picks 
and bores its fingers into its nose, or nervously picks at one spot till it 
bleeds. In mild cases, the urine may be very profuse; in severe cases 
the urine is greatly diminished and the appearance of profuse urina- 
tion is a sign that the remedy is acting well. In very bad cases, how- 
ever, those in which the malignancy shows itself in both the internal 
and external symptoms, you will find a perfect picture of uraemia. 
The child tosses about the bed unconscious, and has this involuntary 
picking at one spot or boring the finger into the nose; the urine is 
completely suppressed. The brain is very much irritated, as shown 
by the restless tossing about and the boring of the head into the pil- 
low. In such a case, Arum triphyllum may save the patient, although, 
at the best, the case is an exceedingly doubtful one. 

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2IO A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

I have never seen inflammation of the brain yield to Arum tri- 
phyllum, unless some of these symptoms were present; either irritation 
about the throat, mouth, or nose, or else this peculiar picking or bor- 
ing at the nose or at one spot till it bleeds. I think that as a rule it is 
indicated when the cerebral inflammation comes from the suppression 
of some violently acting poison, such as we find present in scarlatina 
or diphtheria. Nor would I think of giving Arum in uraemia if it 
arose in the course of ordinary Bright's disease. I do not think it can 
be the remedy unless the symptoms already referred to are present. 

Arum triphyllum has a marked effect upon the larynx. It pro- 
duces a hoarseness which is characterized by a lack of control over the 
vocal cords. If the speaker attempts to raise his voice it suddenly 
goes up with a squeak. With this symptom you may use Arum in 
clergyman's sore throat, whether this affection be the result of over- 
straining the voice or of cold. 

Possibly the remedy most similar to it in this hoarseness and un- 
certainty of voice is Graphites, which is excellent for singers who can- 
not control their vocal cords, and who develop hoarseness and cracked 
voice as soon as they begin to sing. 

In Carbo veg. the voice is deep, failing when the endeavor is made 
to raise it. 

Another remedy for this condition is Selenium. The patient gets 
hoarse as soon as he begins to sing. 

Other remedies for the effects of increase of the voice are Arnica, 
Rhus tox., Causticum, Phosphorus and Natrum muriaticum. 

Now let us study for a few moments the analogues of Arum tri- 
phyllum. First of all we shall consider Nitric acid. 

This was formerly the only remedy we had for scarlatina maligna. 
It has the excoriating discharge from the nose. No remedy has it 
more marked, not even Arum. The discharge from the nose makes 
the nostrils and lips sore. This is attended by great prostration. The 
throat is extremely sore and is covered with membrane of a diphther- 
itic character, either dark and offensive, or else yellowish-white. The 
mouth (whether the disease be diphtheria or scarlatina) is studded 
with ulcers, which appear principally on the inside of the cheeks, on 
the lips and on the borders of the tongue. This ulceration is accom- 
panied by salivation, the saliva usually being watery and very acrid. 
The pulse frequently intermits every third or fifth beat, a very bad 
symptom. Nitric acid is also preferable to any of the other remedies 



ARACE^e. 211 

in diphtheria with these excoriating discharges when the disease ad- 
vances and affects the stomach (whether or not the membrane in these 
cases spreads to the stomach, I cannot say); when, with great prostra- 
tion and membrane in the throat and nose, there is distress and uneasi- 
ness referred to the stomach, with total rejection of all food. 

Muriatic acid is another remedy in these malignant cases of scar- 
latina and diphtheria. Under this remedy there is the most intense 
prostration. The patient seems to have scarcely life enough to move. 
He is worse at about ten or eleven o'clock in the morning. The 
mouth is studded with deep ulcers having a dark or black base. They 
tend to perforate the parts on which they are situated. Muriatic 
acid frequently has the intermittent pulse of Nitric acid, but accom- 
panying this symptom there are involuntary stool and urine. 

In addition to Nitric acid and Muriatic acid in cases having this 
dangerous group of symptoms you should think of Alcohol. Grauvogl, 
you may remember, found that diphtheritic membrane was dissolved 
and its growths destroyed by several substances, one of them being 
Alcohol. So this agent has become a remedy for diphtheria. Alcohol 
in the form of brandy and water tends not only to destroy the growth, 
but also aids in counteracting the terrible prostration. 

Lycopodium is similar to Arum trip hy Hum in scarlatina and in diph- 
theria. It has a similar nasal discharge, usually associated, however, 
with dull, throbbing headache at the root of the nose or over the eyes. 
The nose is so stuffed up that the child cannot breathe at night. The 
patient bores and picks at the nose just as under Arum triphyllum. 
But in the Lycopodium case the diphtheritic deposit travels from the 
right to the left side. The patient is always worse from sleep even 
after a short nap. He suddenly awakens from sleep, crying out as if 
frightened; nothing can be done to pacify him. He is irritable and 
peevish. In more advanced cases calling for Lycopodium, you will 
find the child unconscious and in a deep sleep. The lower jaw drops, 
the urine is scanty or even suppressed, and what does pass stains the 
bedding or clothing red and deposits a red sand. The breathing is 
rapid, rattling, with waving of the alse nasi and snoring. The mu- 
cous membrane of the throat is ulcerated and oedematous. Hvery 
symptom points to impending paralysis of the brain. 

Ammonium causticum was first suggested by Dr. J. P. Dake as a 
remedy in diphtheria appearing in the nasal cavities, with a burning, 
excoriating discharge from the nose, and great prostration. The 



212 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

symptoms above mentioned led Dr. Dake to use the remedy in an 
epidemic which appeared in Nashville, Tennessee. 

I^astly, let me mention Ailanthus. This drug is a member of the 
order of Simarubacecz. It is analogous to Quassia, Cedron, Brucia, etc., 
all of which are of bitter taste and have anti-malarial properties. Its 
history is as follows: Dr. P. P. Wells, of Brooklyn, had two cases of 
poisoning in children. From his statement of the symptoms, it would 
certainly seem that he had to treat malignant cases of scarlatina; but 
there being no such epidemic about at that time, he looked for other 
causes, and found that the little patients had been chewing the blos- 
soms of the Ailanthus. This told him at once that the Ailanthus 
would probably become a remedy in scarlatina. He made provings of 
the drug, and found that they fully confirmed what he had already 
learned from these poisoning cases. Since then this remedy has been 
successfully used many times. A year ago I attended a boy with 
scarlatina. The child lay in a stupor with his mouth wide open. 
The throat was swollen, the nose stuffed up, and the slight rash that 
had appeared on the body was dark and mixed with bluish spots. I 
gave Lycopodium, without any benefit whatever. The child grew 
worse instead of better. I then thought of Ailanthus, and gave it in 
the sixth potency, with the result that the child was completely cured. 
I believe the patient would have died had it not been for the Ailan- 
thus. 

Ailanthus resembles Arum triphyllum in the acridity of the dis- 
charges. There are excoriating discharges from the mouth and nose, 
making the lips sore. We find a similar swelling of the throat, both 
inside and outside. So far as these superficial symptoms are con- 
cerned, the remedies are identical. But there is a great difference to 
be recognized in the other symptoms. The A ilanthus patient becomes 
drowsy and lies in a stupor, hence this drug is indicated when there is 
torpidity rather than the restless tossing about of Arum triphyllum. 

The Ailanthus rash comes out imperfectly; it is dark red or bluish, 
and is mixed with petechise. 

Some little time ago, several members of the class asked me to 
speak of the remedies useful in diphtheria, and while I am on the sub- 
ject of Aru?n and its analogues in this affection, I shall take the op- 
portunity to comply with that request. 

Baptisia tinctoria has long enjoyed a great reputation in typhoid 
fever. It has lately been used in diphtheria, and in scarlatina also 



ARACE^. 213 

when the child is very much prostrated and lies in a half-stupid state, 
almost like one intoxicated. The face is dark-red, and has a besotted 
look, and the discharges from the mouth and nose are horribly offen- 
sive, so much so, indeed, that one might suppose that gangrene of the 
affected parts had taken place. 

Rhus tox. we find indicated in rather severe cases, when the mem- 
brane is dark in color and bloody saliva runs out of the mouth during 
sleep. These symptoms are associated with inflammation of the 
glands about the neck, of a dark erysipelatous hue. 

Phytolacca decandra we find useful when, in the beginning of the 
disease, there are creepy chills and backache. The patient is weak, 
and feels faint when he sits up in bed. On looking into the throat 
you find it dark-red, almost purple. There is great burning in the 
throat, with aggravation from hot drinks. 

Amygdala amara is indicated when there are sharp, lancinating 
pains in the swollen tonsils. The palate and fauces have a dark-red 
hue, and the patient is very much prostrated. 

Naja tripudians is to be administered when there is impending par- 
alysis of the heart. The patient is blue. He awakens from sleep 
gasping. The pulse is intermittent and thready. Dr. Preston, of 
Norristown, has been very successful with Naja when the symptoms I 
have mentioned were present. 

Apis mellifica is indicated in diphtheria, when, from the very be- 
ginning, the child is greatly prostrated. He is feverish and drowsy at 
3 p. m. The pulse ranges from 130 to 140, and is very weak. At 
first the throat has a varnished appearance as though the tonsils and 
fauces were coated with a glossy red varnish. The membrane forms 
on either tonsil, oftener on the right than on the left, and it is thick 
like wash-leather. The tongue is often swollen. If the child is old 
enough to talk to you, he will complain of a sensation of fulness in 
the throat, necessitating swallowing but making the act very difficult. 
The uvula, in fact the whole throat, is cedematous and swollen. The 
rima glottidis is swollen, red, and cedematous, making breathing diffi- 
cult. In some of these cases the breath is very foetid, while in others 
it is not so in the least. In some cases a red rash appears over the 
body, greatly resembling that of scarlatina. The child is often thirst- 
less in spite of the presence of fever. 

Arsenicum album is called for in rather severe cases of diphtheria, 
when the throat is very much swollen both internally and externally, 



214 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

and the membrane has a dark hue and is very foetid. There is a thin, 
excoriating discharge from the nose. The throat is ©edematous, just 
as it is under Apis. The patient is restless, especially after midnight, 
and is greatly prostrated. The urine is scanty; the bowels are consti- 
pated, or else there is an offensive, watery diarrhoea. 

Natrum arsenicosum is the remedy when the throat is of a dark 
purplish hue, with great swelling and prostration, but without much 
pain. 

Kali permanganatum is useful when the membrane is horribly 
offensive. The throat is oedematous, and there is a thin discharge 
from the nose; the chief characteristic of the drug is this extreme 
foetor. 

Lachesis is called for when the membrane forms first on the left ton- 
sil and spreads thence to the right. It is to be distinguished from 
other drugs which act in a similar manner by the fact that the symp- 
toms are worse from empty swallowing, and are often relieved by eat- 
ing or swallowing solid food. There is a constant feeling as of a 
lump on the left side; this descends with each act of deglutition, but 
returns again. Sometimes, on waking from sleep, there is a feeling 
as if there were needles in the throat, which create suffocation. 
When the tonsils are very much swollen, fluids are apt to return 
through the nose. The fauces are of a dark purplish color, and there 
is great prostration. The heart is weak in its action. There is ag- 
gravation after sleep, and the throat is sensitive to the slightest touch. 

Belladonna is not a prominent remedy in diphtheria. When you do 
give it in this disease, make sure that it is the remedy or you will lose 
valuable time. It may, however, be the remedy in the early stages 
when the violence of the attack calls for it, if there is congestion 
of the head before the membrane has formed. 

Other frequently indicated remedies are Kali bichromicam , Iodine, 
Bromine, Mercurius biniodatus, Mercurins cyanalus, etc. Some of these 
I have already given you, and the others you will get in future 
lectures. 

Caladium Skguinum. 

Caladium is indicated in stout persons of flabby fibre who are sub- 
ject to catarrhal asthma; that is, asthma with the production of 
mucus which is not readily raised, but which, when raised, gives re- 
lief to the patient. 



ARACE^. 215 

It is a remedy to be remembered in spermatorrhoea or in seminal 
weakness, particularly in nocturnal emissions, when there is complete 
relaxation of the organs so that emissions occur without any dreams, 
or if there be a dream, it is entirely foreign to sexual subjects. So you 
see it is indicated in far advanced cases without erections. 

Dracontium. 

I bring this drug before you in order to say a few words concerning 
the remedies similar to it. Dracontium has never been proved in the 
high potencies. It produces symptoms similar in nature to those of 
Arum triphyllum, but its action is on the lower portion of the respira- 
tory apparatus. Arum produces a laryngeal cough. Dracontium acts on 
the trachea and bronchial tubes, giving rise to a violent attack of 
bronchial catarrh, with rapid formation first of a watery, burning dis- 
charge, and later, of pus or muco-pus; hence its symptoms are: yel- 
lowish purulent discharge, with great burning, rawness, and other 
symptoms of violent inflammation. 

Beside Draco?itium I have placed on the board a list of reme- 
dies, some of which may be unknown to you. The Balsam of Peru 
should be remembered as an admirable remedy in bronchial catarrh 
when there is formation of muco-pus. When you place your ear to 
the chest you detect loud rales, and the expectoration is thick, creamy, 
and yellowish-w 7 hite. The Balsam of Peru is an excellent remedy, 
even though night sweats and hectic fever show the disease to be pro- 
gressing alarmingly. This drug I use in a low potency. 

Next below I have placed Pix liquida, which is not only an excellent 
remedy in bronchial catarrh but also in phthisis pulmonalis. It is indi- 
cated by the expectoration of purulent matter, offensive in odor and 
taste, and accompanied by pain referred to the left third costal carti- 
lage (really in the left bronchus). This pain may or may not ap- 
parently go through to the back. In such cases Pix liquida is the 
remedy. It is especially indicated in the third stage of phthisis. 

Next to this I have placed Guaiacum, which is also to be thought 
of in the late stage of tuberculosis, when there are pleuritic pains re- 
ferred to the left apex, and in addition offensive muco-purulent 
sputum. 

Eryodiction Californicum (also called Yerba santa) has as yet a very 
limited symptomatology, but it has been used successfully in what we 
may call bronchial phthisis. The patient has night-sweats, and the 



2l6 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

body wastes away. There is great intolerance of food. It is called 
for in phthisis, the result of frequent bronchial catarrhs, and also in 
asthma relieved by expectoration. 

Pothos Fcetida. 

Pothos foztida is a remedy you should remember in asthma. It is 
useful for asthma that is worse from any inhalation of dust, as, for 
example, the inhalation of the dust in a hay-loft, and that is re- 
lieved by stool. 

It also includes within its therapeutic range marked hysteria. Ab- 
sent minded, irritable; hysterical paroxysms resembling tetanus, with 
enormous bloating of the abdomen. 



LECTURE XX. 

ANACARDIACE^. 

To-day I introduce to you for study a group of plants known 
as the Anacardiacecs . This is a valuable order, from which we ob- 
tain several very useful medicines, i. The Anacardium orientate, 
which comes from the East. 2. The Anacardium occidentale, the 
western Anacardium or cashew nut. 3. The Comocladia dentata, 
which is the Rhus common to the southern parts of the United States 
and Cuba. Upon the blossoms of this plant bees feed in certain 
seasons of the year. Those who partake of the honey at such times 
are liable to become affected with an eruption very much resembling 
that of erysipelas. The Comocladia is very similar to Rhus tox. 
Both remedies have pain with relief from motion; both may be called 
for in erysipelas; both cause scarlet redness of the body, with burning 
and itching; both produce weakness, numbness, restlessness, etc. 
They differ in their eye-S3'mptoms. Comocladia has pains in the right 
eye with a sensation as if it were larger or were being pushed out of 
the head. These eye-symptoms are worse near a warm stove; while 
those of Rhus are relieved by this influence. Apis has eye-symptoms 
aggravated from being near a warm stove. The ophthalmia of Mer- 
curius, Argentum nitricum and Antimonium crudum is also worse from 
radiated heat. Comocladia resembles Euphorbium officinarum in its 
skin-symptoms, even in the red stripes on the skin. 4. Rhus toxico- 
dendron or the poison ivy, which I will consider at length in my next 
lecture. 5. Rhus glabra, or the common sumach; it is not so poison- 
ous a variety of the Rhus as those already mentioned. It has cured 
occipital headache, and also epistaxis proceeding from the left side. 
6. Rhus radicans, which is regarded by many as identical with Rhus 
tox. 7. The Rhus veneiiata, an exceedingly poisonous variety. It has 
a large blossom of a dark reddish-brown color. It is a small tree, 
growing sometimes to the height of ten feet, and very much resem- 
bling the Ailanthus. 

All the plants of this order are poisonous; they affect the blood, and 
develop an eruption on the skin which is, at first, vesicular and finally 
pustular and eczematous. They may also produce an erythema 



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ending in erysipelas. Despite the similarities thus far mentioned, there 
are great differences in their physiological action; in fact, these differ- 
ences may be so great that, in some points, they may bring some of 
the members of the group into an opposite relation to each other. 

Anacardium Orientale. 

f Lachesis. 
Nitric acid. 



Anacardium. 



V 
Antidotes Rhus tox. 



V 



Is antidoted by Juglans. 



Mind. 



Stomach 

and 
bowels. 

Skin. 
Spine. 
Joints. 
Heart. 



Stramonium. 



(^ Belladonna. 

Nux vomica. 
J Sulphur. 
j Sepia. 
I Lamium album. 



Anacardium exerts a depressing influence on the system, not only, 
as to the mind, but as to the body as well. It produces a weakness of 
memory; this symptom we often meet with as the result of acute dis- 
eases; for example, the acute exanthemata, such as small-pox. The 
eruption of Anacardium is analogous to that of variola. Taking these 
two symptoms, loss of memory and eruptions simulating that of 
variola, we find an excellent reason for prescribing this remedy when 
loss of memory appears as one of the sequelae of that disease. Ana- 
cardium may also be useful when this disturbance of memory occurs in 
old people, or as the result of softening of the brain. 

In addition to this effect on the intellect, we find the emotional 
mind very much disturbed; the A?iacardium patient imagines that he 
hears voices afar off talking to him. Here it is something like Stramon- 
ium. He has a sensation as though he had two wills — one command- 
ing him to do what the other forbids. This is not an uncommon 
symptom in typhoid fever, in which disease plants which poison the 
blood, as do those under consideration, may be exceedingly useful. 
This feeling, as if the patient had two wills, is also found under other 
remedies. You will find it, for example, under Lac/iesis, which, you 



ANACARDIACE^e. 2IO. 

will remember, has: "The patient thinks that he is under the con- 
trol of some superhuman power." A similar symptom is also found 
under Belladonna. 

Another mental condition characterizing Anacardium is a propensity 
to swear. Now, do not suppose that I recommend Anacardium for 
the cure of profanity when it exists as the result of low morals; far 
from it. When, however, the propensity to swear comes as a result 
of mental disease, Anacardium may do noble work. I once treated a 
minister who exhibited a remarkable penchant for profanity; try as 
hard as he would, he could not help it. This trouble did not affect 
him until he suffered from a peculiar headache, characterized by a sen- 
sation as if a plug were in the head. A?iacardium made a complete 
cure in his case. 

Another remedy producing disposition to swear is Nitric acid; but I 
have never seen it do any good in these cases excepting after the abuse 
of mercury. I also wish to call your attention to a symptom of the 
drug, on the authority of Dr. Talcott, of Middletown, N. Y. , namely, 
inclination to commit suicide by shooting, a symptom which you will 
also find under Antimonium crudum. 

We also find Anacardium a remedy for the bad effects of over-use of 
the mind; for mental fatigue, in other words. Mental exertion brings 
on a tearing headache, the pains being situated mostly in the fore- 
head and back part of the forehead. In other cases, the headache 
may assume a different phase, in which the patient complains of the 
plug-sensation spoken of above, or of a constrictive sensation as though 
a band were tied about the head. These headaches of Anacardium 
are associated with great mental irritability, which is not, however, 
always so great as to lead the patient to indulge in profanity. 

Hypochondriasis is one of the marked features of Anacardium. 
The patient is apt to be clumsy and si lly in his behavior, and very 
much depressed. There is again this idea of duality, that his mind is 
separated from his body, that a stranger accompanies him. These 
symptoms of the mind frequently owe their origin to gastric disturb- 
ance. In the woman they may develop after child-birth. She im- 
agines that her child is not her own, that her husband is someone else. 

The gastric symptoms of Anacardium are these, and they are very 
characteristic. You will note that the patient is hungry much of the 
time; he feels better while eating, but worse after eating. He is apt 
to have constipation; there is frequent desire for stool, but when an 



220 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

attempt to move the bowels is made, the urging passes away. The 
rectum seems powerless; he complains of a sensation as of a plug or of 
some foreign substance in the rectum; this symptom is not the me- 
chanical result of the retained faeces. Here again you notice the sen- 
sation as of a plug or some foreign substance interfering with the 
normal function of the organ. Now these symptoms that I have men- 
tioned are more common than we think. When they do occur, we are 
more apt to think of Nux vomica, Ignatia, and Sulphur, and for- 
get Anacardium. 

Especially does Anacardium resemble Nux vomica in the morning 
nausea. Like Nux, the former may be useful for the morning sickness 
of pregnancy; the patient is relieved while eating, but the symptoms re- 
turn soon after. There is also a resemblance in the mental symptoms of 
the two drugs. Wherein do they differ? There is an essential differ- 
ence in the pathology of the cases calling for these remedies. While 
you will note that Anacardium has urging to stool, it also has in ad- 
dition a powerlessness or inefficiency of the rectum, thus exhibiting a 
paretic state which does not belong to Nux vomica, the last-named 
drug being suited to irregular peristaltic action of the bowels. Then, 
too, that sensation as of a plug in the rectum, is not found under 
Nux vomica. 

Do not forget the distinction I have given you between Anacardium 
and Nux, I admonish you again, because I know we often give Nux 
when we should have given Anacardium. 

Sepia is similar to Anacardium. This remedy has urging as if some 
foreign substance were in the rectum; a constant full feeling in the 
rectum, even after stool. In addition to this, it has inactivity of the 
rectum, so that even a soft stool is expelled with difficulty. It is true 
that these symptoms of Sepia almost always require the presence of 
some uterine disease to make it the remedy. 

A French physician has recommended Anacardium as an invaluable 
remedy in internal haemorrhoids. He administers the drug in the 
thirtieth potency, several times daily, for several weeks. He claims 
to have made many cures; I have not been able to confirm his ex- 
perience. 

The same physician uses Lamium album for external piles. This 
remedy has a headache accompanied by a peculiar backward and for- 
ward motion of the head. 

Let us now study the action of Anacardium on the skin. We find 



ANACARDIACE^. 221 

it useful when the face is swollen, particularly on the left side, and 
covered with small blisters which have a pock-like appearance. These 
blisters are umbilicated; they may also occur on other parts of the 
body. They discharge a yellowish serum which hardens into crusts 
in the open air. The itching is extreme, so great, indeed, as almost to 
compel the patient to dig the nails into the skin. These cutaneous 
symptoms are often accompanied by some of the gastric symptoms just 
mentioned. 

The A?iacardium occide?itale , or cashew nut, although the kernel is 
edible, causes a vesicular eruption, usually on the face, but on other 
parts of the body also, with almost intolerable itching, and as you 
might expect, it also causes umbilicated pustules, as in small-pox. It 
produces an erysipelatous eruption on the face, and this spreads from 
the left to the right. Now, this is in the proving. You remember 
that I said in my lectures on Institutes, when in a proving the symp- 
toms move in one direction, that the remedy producing the symptoms 
ought to cure a disease going in the opposite direction. For instance, in 
the proving of Rhus tox. the erysipelatous inflammation ^oes from right 
to left, hence it cures erysipelas going from left to right. As this 
variety of Anacardium has symptoms like Rhus, but moving in an op- 
posite direction, it may act as an antidote to Rhus tox. 

We shall now speak of the action of Anacardium orientate on the 
heart. Anacardium is indicated in palpitation of the heart, especially 
in the aged, when it complicates such slight difficulties as an ordinary 
coryza. This palpitation is often associated with defective memory. 

We also find it indicated in rheumatic pericarditis characterized by 
sharp stitches through the cardiac region, these stitches being double, 
that is to say, one stitch is quickly followed by a second, and then 
there is a long interval. 

Next we shall say a few words about the action of Anacardium on 
the spine, back, and limbs. Anacardium may be selected in diseases 
of the spinal cord. The symptoms which indicate it here are, sensa- 
tion as though a band were tied around the body; a feeling as though 
a plug were stuck in the spine so that any motion of the body gives 
rise to a pain as if the plug were sticking still further into the body. 
The knees, particularly, seem to feel weak in these spinal affections. 
They feel as if paralyzed. The patient is scarcely able to walk, and 
in addition has a feeling as though the knees were bandaged tightly. 

Looking into Bcenninghausen's works, you will find that Anacardium 



22 2 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

has an action on the knee-joint. The swelling of Anacardium is 
of a chronic character, and is attended by a sensation as of subcu- 
taneous ulceration. 

Anacardium, you should remember, is not antidoted by Rhus tox., al- 
though, under some circumstances, it is an antidote to this remedy. 
But it is antidoted by the Juglans — also by strong coffee without 
sugar or milk. 

Next we come to the different varieties of Rhus. Rhus toxico- 
de?idron, as I have already intimated, will be considered in full in my 
next lecture. I will now say a few words concerning Rhus radicans, 
and the antidotal treatment of Rhus poisoning. Rhus radicans is 
highly recommended for occipital headache associated with rheumatic 
stiffness at the nape of the neck. 

Many antidotes to Rhus poisoning have been suggested. One of 
the best is Croton tiglium. This, when applied locally, and also when 
taken internally, produces an eruption almost identical with that of 
Rhus tox. First, an erythema appears, with decided inflammation 
and pitting on pressure. Small vesicles form, very close together, 
attended by almost unbearable itching, burning, and stinging. These 
vesicles fill with a yellowish serum, and finally break and form more or 
less thick crusts. 

Ammonium carb. has also been suggested. It may be used both in- 
ternally and locally. It produces a fine red eruption, with great burn- 
ing and itching, worse at night. 

Western physicians have of late been using Grindelia robusta. It is 
not much used here. 

Arsenicum is to be thought of when the eruption is attended by 
fiery, burning pains in the skin and great restlessness. 

Chronic Rhus poisoning finds its best remedy in Graphites, but Sul- 
phur and especially Sepia are also of great use in curing obstinate 
cases. 

This Grindelia robusta, to which I have referred so briefly, has 
a remarkable action on the pneumogastric nerves. It seems to produce 
a paresis of those nerves, so that when the patient drops off to sleep 
he stops breathing and, of course, is aroused by the desire for oxygen. 
You see that it is allied here to Lachesis and Gelsemium. 



LECTURE XXI. 

RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 

The drug of which I wish to speak this morning is the chief mem- 
ber of the Anacardiacese, namely, the poison-ivy or Rhus toxicodendro?i. 
You must remember it as complementary to Bryonia, a fact discovered 
by Hahnemann in his experience with an epidemic of war-typhus, dur- 
ing which he treated many cases, losing but two; the success he then 
gained was acknowledged on all sides. Many lives have since been 
saved by the exhibition of these two remedies in alternation; i. e., an 
alternation which consists in giving Bryonia when Bryonia symptoms 
are present, and Rhus tox. when the patient manifests symptoms call- 
ing for that remedy. This is a legitimate alternation. We must also 
remember a fact of which I have spoken before, but which is so im- 
portant that I here reiterate it, namely, that Rhus tox. bears an in- 
imical relation to Apis mellijica. Although the symptoms of the two 
are superficially similar, for some reason which I cannot explain, these 
drugs do not follow each other well. 

We find Rhus tox. forming the centre of a very large group of 
medicines. If we were to study them all comparatively, it would take 
several hours. For example, holding as it does important typhoid re- 
lations, it has radiating from it many drugs employed in typhoid states 
of disease. Bryonia, as I have already said, stands close to it. Then 
we have diverging in another radius Arsenicum , in still another Muri- 
atic acid, Phosphorus, Carbo veg., etc., with Baptisia and a number 
of others. 

First, we shall study the action of Rhus tox. on the circulatory sys- 
tem. We find that it causes an erethism, an increase in the circula- 
tion; in other words, ebullitions of the blood. It acts on the cen- 
tral organ of the circulation, the heart. Thus we find it indicated in 
uncomplicated hypertrophy of that viscus, i. e. , hypertrophy not as- 
sociated with valvular lesions. From what cause? From the effects 
of over- exertion, as may frequently happen in athletes and in ma- 
chinists who wield heavv tools. 



224 



A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 



Rhus tox. 



V 
Bryonia. 



Compare Rhus 
with 



i. Blood. 
2. Fevers. 



3. Fibrous tissues. -{ 

I 



Heart, pulse. 
Typhoid symptoms. 
-Intermittent, etc. 

f Aponeuroses, tendons. 



Joints. 
Cellulitis. 



4. Skin. 



(^ Over-exertion. 
J Eruptions. 



( Erysipelas. 
5. Mucous membranes. 



Influenza. 

Diarrhoea. 
6. Organs. 
Arnica, Bromium, Aconite, Kal 
mia, Pulsatilla, Actea r. , Phyto 
lacca dec. 



In cardiac 
affections. 



Phosphorus, Arsenicum, Muriatic 
acid, Carbo veg., Baptisia, Arnica, 
Phosphoric acid, Taraxacum, Bry- [ 
onia. J 

Arnica, Arsenicum, Sulphur, Pe- 
troleum, Ruta, Staphisagria, Kali 
carb. , Ledum, Valerian, Anacar- 
dium, Conium, Lycopodium, Pul- 
satilla, Ferrum, Rhusrad., Kalmia, 
Colchicum, Rhododendron. 

Lachesis, Ailanthus, Arum tri- 
phyllum, Belladonna, Calcarea os- 
trearum. 

Mezereum, Nux juglans. 

Cinchona, Sulphuric acid, Bella- 
donna, Spigelia, Carbo animalis. 

Calcarea ostrearum, Sepia, Gelsem- 
^ ium, Kalmia. 



In typhoid 
fever. 



In rheumatic 
affections. 



In scarla- 
tina. 

In eczema. 

In head 
symptoms. 

In eye 
symptoms. 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 225 

Other remedies useful in this condition are Arnica and Bromium. 
These remedies, when indicated, must be given persistently for days 
and even weeks, until you have succeeded in bringing about a proper 
absorption of the surplus cardiac muscular fibres. We also find Rhus 
indicated in palpitation of the heart, following over-exertion. When 
Rhus tox. is the remedy in heart disease, you usually find accom- 
panying the disorder a sensation of numbness of the left arm and 
shoulder. The patient experiences a weak feeling in the chest, as if 
the heart muscle were tired, and this is worse after any exertion. The 
palpitation at times seems worse when he is sitting still. 

Aconite has tingling in the fingers in association with heart disease. 
The fingers feel as if they were going to sleep. Anxiety is always 
present with this drug. 

So, too, with Kalmia, which has the same symptom in the left arm, 
with cardiac affections. 

Cactus has this symptom associated with constrictive sensation as of 
an iron band about the heart; and Sumbul with heaviness and sharp, 
wiry shooting pains in the fingers. 

Pulsatilla has numbness, particularly about the elbow, very fre- 
quently with hypertrophy or dilatation of the right ventricle. 

Actea racemosa has the sensation as though the arm was bandaged 
tightly to the body. 

Phytolacca, however, affects the right side of the body. It has the 
same sensation in the right arm that Aconite, Kalmia and Rhus have 
in the left. 

Now the pulse of Rhus tox. Rhus produces a depression of the 
system, hence its pulse is not apt to be so full and strong as we find 
under Aconite. It is accelerated, but with this acceleration there is 
apt to be weakness of its beat. At other times, it is irregular or even 
intermittent; all these are characteristic of Rhus tox. With these 
different kinds of pulse, we often find the numbness of the left arm 
which I have just mentioned. 

Let us next take the typhoid symptoms of Rhus; by this I mean 
typhoid-like symptoms, symptoms which indicate sinking of the vital 
forces such as appears in diseases assuming a low type. Other things 
being equal, you may rely on Rhus whenever acute diseases take on a 
typhoid form. Dysentery assuming this form may call for it. The 
same is true of peritonitis, pneumonia, scarlatina and diphtheria under 
similar conditions and when no other remedy is positively indicated. 
Rhus must, therefore, act on the blood, poisoning that fluid. 
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226 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

The symptoms which indicate it in typhoid fever proper are these: 
in the first place, the temperament helps you a great deal. The pa- 
tient is of a rather mild temperament. The delirium is of a mild 
character, and not violent. At times, it is true, the patient may ex- 
hibit a disposition to jump out of bed, or to try to escape, but when he 
is more or less conscious, he manifests little petulance or irritability. 
It is not, then, a violent anger that characterizes Rhus tox. You will 
notice that this delirium is associated with restlessness, not only men- 
tal but physical as well. The patient constantly tosses about the bed. 
He is first lying on one side of the body, then on the other. At one 
moment he is sitting up, during the next he is lying down. You ob- 
serve then a constant desire to move, and it is even possible that the 
patient is relieved by the change of position. Sometimes we find ex- 
ceptionally, in the beginning of the disease, that the patient wants to 
lie perfectly quiet. This is on account of the great weakness. He 
feels perfectly prostrated. In fact, the sense of debility is an early 
symptom, far outstripping the rest of the symptoms in their course, 
and out of proportion to them. He is indifferent to everything. Some- 
times the patient has hallucinations. He fears that he will be pois- 
oned. He will not take the medicines you leave him, or the food and 
drink that is offered him, as he fears that his attendants desire to 
poison him. As the stupor progresses, he answers very slowly, as if 
reluctantly or else in a petulant way ; but he is not violent. He has 
severe headache, the pain of which he compares to a sensation as of a 
board strapped to the forehead. This is often associated with a rush 
of blood to the head, as shown by sudden flushing of the face. 
He has epistaxis, and this relieves the headache. The blood that 
escapes is dark in color. His sleep is restless and he dreams of roam- 
ing over fields or of great exertion, as climbing, swimming. The ty- 
phoid fever may affect the lungs and produce pneumonia, with the usual 
cough, difficult breathing, and rust-colored sputum attending that 
affection; with all these symptoms you find the tongue dark brown, 
dry and cracked. The cracks gape considerably and at times 
bleed. Sometimes the tongue and mouth are covered with a brownish, 
tenacious mucus ; at others, you find the tongue taking the imprint of 
the teeth. Now, let me beg of you not to give Mercurius .simply be- 
cause the latter symptom is present. Mercurius has very little 
application to typhoid fever; it will spoil your case unless decided 
icteroid symptoms are present. The tongue of Rhus tox. very often 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 227 

has a triangular red tip, which is quite different from the more evenly 
coated flabby tongue of Mercury. There is disturbance of the stomach 
and bowels. The patient has diarrhoea with yellowish-brown or green- 
ish stools of a cadaverous odor. Stools may come involuntarily, dur- 
ing sleep. The urine escapes involuntarily, and sometimes leaves a 
reddish stain. The patient complains of tearing pains in the limbs 
with almost intolerable backache. Sometimes (like Bryonia) he 
dreams of the business of the day. (Aurum, Causticum, and Aurum 
mur., also have this restlessness of the limbs, worse at night.) The 
surface of the body is dry and hot, and often redder than normal. 
Sometimes red spots will be found on the skin. If he has sweat, it is 
copious and sour-smelling, and is accompanied by a miliary rash. The 
abdomen is tympanitic ; and it is especially sensitive over two impor- 
tant points, the right iliac region and the region of the spleen, which 
organ, by the way, is swollen. Finally, the stools become scanty and 
greenish and are unattended by tenesmus. In women a uterine haem- 
orrhage may complicate the case, but this gives no relief to the symp- 
toms. Symptoms of pulmonary congestion appear. Rales are heard 
all through the chest, especially in the lower lobes of the lungs. The 
cough is at first dry, and then becomes more frequent and loose, with 
expectoration of blood-streaked sputum. These, then, are the main 
symptoms which lead you to prefer Rhus in the treatment of typhoid 
fevers. Very briefly let me show you how it may be distinguished 
from its concordant remedies ; and first, I shall speak of some of the 
remedies that may follow Rhus tox. 

Phosphorus follows Rhus well when the pneumonic symptoms have 
failed to yield to that remedy, and when the diarrhoea continues. The 
stools are yellow and blood-streaked, sometimes looking like "flesh- 
water. ' ' 

Arsenicum follows Rhus in the erethistic form of typhoid fever. 
Notwithstanding the terrible prostration, the patient is still irritable 
and anxious, even to the last hours of life. The profound weakness 
continues, the mouth grows blacker and the diarrhoea persists, not- 
withstanding Rhus. Here let me give you a word of caution. Begin- 
ners are apt to give Arsenicum too soon. If this is done, they only 
hasten the troubles that they are endeavoring to prevent. Arsenic is 
an excellent remedy when indicated, a dangerous one when misused. I 
therefore say, "do not give it early in the course of typhoid affections, 
unless the symptoms clearly call for it." Like Rhus, Arsenicum has 



228 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

restlessness, prostration and prominent abdominal symptoms. Thirst 
is intense. Pains are of a burning character. The stools are dark- 
brown, offensive and bloody, and more frequent after midnight. 

Muriatic acid is also useful in the erethistic form. It has many 
symptoms in common with Rhus. It is to be preferred when the de- 
composition is still more evident ; the prostration is great, the patient 
being so weak that he slides down toward the foot of the bed. The 
stool and urine escape involuntarily. 

Hyoscyamus has the symptom, fear of being poisoned, in a more 
marked degree even than Rhus, but otherwise has no great resem- 
blance. 

But we also find Rhus similar to remedies which suit the torpid form 
of the disease. Foremost in this list is Carbo veg. The Rhus patient 
often runs into a Carbo veg. state, in which case he lies perfectly 
torpid, without any sign of reaction. The limbs are cold, especially the 
legs from the feet to the knees, and are covered with a cold sweat. 
The pulse is rapid and with little volume, the discharges from the 
bowels are horribly offensive. 

Still another remedy is Baptisia. This is indicated when we have, 
as under Rhus tox. , brown or blackish coated tongue, and well-marked 
fever. The face presents a dark red, besotted appearance, like that of 
one intoxicated. The discharges from the bowels are dark, fluid and 
very offensive. The patient is drowsy and stupid ; he goes to sleep 
while answering questions ; or he is restless, tossing about the bed with 
the illusion that he is double, or is scattered about, and must try to 
get himself together again. He complains of the bed feeling too hard. 
The tongue is often studded with aphthous ulcers. 

Arnica and Baptisia both have a drowsy, stupid state ; the patient 
complains of the bed feeling too hard, and goes to sleep while answer- 
ing questions. But, under Arnica, there is complete apathy ; ecchy- 
moses and bed-sores appear on the body, there is also involuntary stool 
and urine ; and, if the lungs are affected, the sputum is bloody. 

Phosphoric acid follows well after Rhus when there is increased de- 
bility or prostration with perfect apathy. The stools are bloody and 
slimy. Nose-bleed, when it occurs, brings no relief. 

Taraxacum should also be borne in mind. Boenninghausen's son 
was taken with typhoid fever and was attended by his father. Among 
his symptoms was the restlessness I mentioned as characteristic of Rhus 
tox. , yet that remedy gave no relief. Looking up the materia medica, 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 229 

Boenninghausen found that Taraxacwn had this same restlessness of 
the limbs with tearing pains, and in addition it also had a symp- 
tom which was present in his son's case, mapped tongue. He gave 
Taraxacwn with prompt result. 

The indications for Bryonia in typhoid states I will defer until next 
month, when I lecture on that drug in detail. 

Next we see the disturbances in the circulation produced by Rhus ex- 
hibited in another form of fever, namely, intermittent fever. Rhus is 
suitable for intermittent types of fever when the chill begins in one 
leg, usually in the thigh, or between the shoulders or over one scapula. 
It is very important always to note the point it which the chill starts 
in this disease. For instance, under Eupatorium and sometimes Natrum 
mur., it begins in the small of the back ; under Gelsemium, it runs up 
the spine. In the Rhus case, during the chill there is a dry, teasing 
cough, a symptom which you will also find under Cinchona, Sulphur, 
Bryonia and Sabadilla. Along with the external chill there is internal 
heat. Thirst is absent. Often, too, we find skin symptoms, as urti- 
caria and fever blisters, the latter being situated about the mouth. The 
sweat is very general, excepting about the face. 

We now come to the study of the action of Rhus on the fibrous 
tissues. Allow me to include under this tissue the aponeuroses and 
tendons of muscles, the ligaments about joints and the connective tissue. 
No remedy has a more profound action on the fibrous tissues than has 
Rhus tox. First of all, I will speak of its action on the tendons of 
muscles. We find Rhus useful whenever these tendons are inflamed, 
whether it be from over-exertion or from a sudden wrenching, as in 
the case of a sprain. We find, also, that we may give Rhus in other 
affections arising from over-exertion. For example, if a musician 
from prolonged performing on wind instruments suffers from pul- 
monary haemorrhages, Rhus will be his remedy. If from violent 
exertion a patient is seized with paralysis, his trouble may yield to 
Rhus tox. In sprains, Calcarea ostrearum follows when Rhus has re- 
lieved, but failed to cure. 

Let me here speak of a few other remedies applicable to the bad 
effects of over-exertion, in order that you may differentiate them from 
the drug which is the subject of this lecture. 

Arnica acts more on the muscular tissue than on the ligaments. 
Hence, we would find it indicated when, as a result of long exertion, 
there is a great soreness of the muscles. The patient feels as if he 



230 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

had been pounded. It has not that strained feeling of Rhus. When 
a joint is clearly sprained, Arnica is not the best remedy, unless there 
is considerable inflammation of the soft parts other than the ligaments. 

Arsenicum is to be thought of for the effects of over-exertion, par- 
ticularly if that exertion consists in climbing steep hills and moun- 
tains. Here you have the effects of breathing rarefied air as well as 
those of the exertion. It is also useful for inflammation and soreness 
in enarthrodial joints from concussion , as, for instance, when the head 
of the femur is jammed violently into its socket. 

The general characteristic, however, which helps you to decide for 
Rhus in all these cases is this : the patie?it has relief of his symptoms by 
continued motio?i, while he experiences aggravation on begimiing to move. 
The reason for this symptom is that the fibrous tissues become 
limbered up as the patient continues to move. 

I may say that there is somewhat of an exception to this character- 
istic, and that is in that painful disease known as lumbago. I find 
that in the beginning of this affection Rhus is the remedy, whether the 
patient is better from motion or not. The symptoms calling for Rhus 
are great pains on attempting to rise, stiff neck of rheumatic origin 
from sitting in a draught, rheumatic pains in the interscapular region, 
better from warmth and worse from cold. There may also be con- 
strictive pains in the dorsal muscles, relieved from bending backward. 

Sulphur also has rheumatic pains, with stiffness in the lumbar region, 
and with sudden loss of power on attempting to move. 

Petroleum and Ruta are useful when these rheumatic pains in the 
back are worse in the morning before rising. 

Under Staphisagria, the lumbar pains compel the patient to get up 
early. 

Kali carb. has sharp pains in the lumbar region, worse at 3 A. m., 
compelling the patient to get up and walk about. The pains shoot 
down the buttocks. 

Ledum has pain in the back, which may be compared to a feeling 
of stiffness after sitting still for a long time. There is a crampy pain 
over the hips in the evenings. In the morning the feet are stiff and 
rigid. 

Valerian causes, and therefore will cure, violent drawing, darting, 
jerking pains in the limbs, which appear suddenly. They are worse 
from sitting and better from motion. The patient also has a strained 
feeling in the lumbar re%ion, subject to the same modality as the pains 
in the limbs. 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 23 1 

In rheumatism Rhus is indicated, not so much in the inflammatory 
form as in the rheumatic diathesis, when the characteristic modality 
just mentioned is present, and when there is aggravation during damp 
weather, or from dwelling in damp places. Another peculiarity of 
Rhus is that prominent projections of bones are sore to the touch, as, 
for example, the cheek-bones. This shows you that Rhus affects the 
periosteum. Still another characteristic is that the patient cannot bear 
the least exposure to cool air. 

Rhus may also be used for either horse or man when the patient has 
become warm from exercise, and the resulting free perspiration has 
been checked by rain or dampness. 

In these various rheumatic affections, I wish you to compare, first, 
Anacardium, which has a stiff neck, worse from beginning to move. 

Cojiium has worse from beginning to move, but relief from continued 
motion. 

Lycopodium and Pulsatilla, which are worse on beginning to move 
but better from slow motion. 

Ferrum, which has neuralgic and rheumatic pains worse at night, 
relieved by slowly moving about at night. 

Capsicum, which has many symptoms relieved by moving about. 

Rhus radicans has drawing, tearing pains in the legs. It has also 
rheumatic pains in the back of the head. It is useful in pleurodynia 
or false pleurisy, when the pains go into the shoulders. In the prov- 
ings made by Dr. Joslin it caused pains following the course of the 
ulnar nerve. 

Kalmia latifolia has tearing pains down the legs, without any swell- 
ing, without fever, but with great weakness. You see that it here re- 
sembles Colchicum. 

Rhododendron has great susceptibility to changes in the weather, 
particularly from warm to cold, and to electric changes in the atmos- 
phere. Associated with this susceptibility to changes in the weather 
are numbness, formication, etc.; pain in the limbs, especially in the 
bones of forearms, hands and feet. As under Rhus, these pains are 
worse during rest. Sometimes the patient complains of a weak, para- 
lytic feeling. Symptoms may remit for hours or days. Rhododendron 
is particularly useful in chronic rheumatism affecting the smaller 
joints. It is one of the best remedies for what has been termed 
rheumatic gout, and for a hard, rheumatic swelling of the big- toe joint, 
often mistaken for bunion. 



232 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

Ledum is an invaluable remedy in gout, and in rheumatism affect- 
ing the smaller joints. The pains characteristically travel upward. 
There are nodes about the joints. In gout, Ledum is useful when the 
pains are worse from the warmth of the bed and ameliorated by cold 
applications ; when there is an cedematous condition of the feet ; when 
Colchicum has been abused, and the patient has become greatly reduced 
in strength by this asthenic remedy. You will find that both Ledum 
and Colchicum cause acute tearing pains in the joints, with paralytic 
weakness of the limbs, and numbness and coldness of the surface. 
As in Rhus tox., the brain feels sore at every false step. Ledum 
also has drawing pains in the joints, aggravated by wines ; the 
muscles feel sore as if out of place. 

You note from the schema that Rhus has an action on the cellular 
tissue. It is useful in cellulitis accompanying diphtheria, and in or- 
bital cellulitis, with the formation of pus. Herein lies a positive dis- 
tinction between Rhus and Apis, which never produces cellulitis with 
abscess. 

In carbuncle, another form of connective tissue inflammation, Rhus 
is indicated in the beginning, when the pains are intense and the af- 
fected parts are dark red. If given early, Rhus may abort the whole 
trouble. If not, you may have to resort later to Arsenicum, Carbo veg., 
or even Anthracinum. 

Rhus has a most remarkable action on the skin. It produces an 
erythema ; rapidly progressing to vesication, often accompanied by 
oedema and with the final formation of pus and scabs. The cutaneous 
surface about the eruption is red and angry-looking. 

Rhus is indicated in eczema. If the face is attacked, there is oedema 
of the loose cellular tissue about the eyelids, with pains which we 
may denominate burning, itching, and tingling, to make a nice dis- 
tinction between this remedy and Apis, which has burning and sting- 
ing pains. The eruption is moist, offensive and suppurating, at times 
impetiginous. A red line marks the spread of the disease. 

Rhus gives us also a perfect picture of vesicular erysipelas. The 
structures for which this drug has a special affinity are the scalp and 
the skin of the face and the genital organs. The affected parts are 
dark red, and the inflammation (in the sick) travels from left to right. 

The erysipelas of Apis travels from right to left ; the affected parts 
are rosy-red, pinkish or dark purple ; thirst is absent ; but Apis re- 
quires the presence of oedema. 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 233 

In scarlatina Rhus is indicated, especially in the adynamic forms, 
and should very quickly supplant Belladonna when these symptoms 
appear. The child grows drowsy and restless. The tongue is red and 
sometimes smooth, a very unusual symptom is scarlatina. The fauces 
are dark red and have a peculiar cedematous appearance. The cervical 
glands are enlarged and there may be an enlargement of the left parotid. 
There may even be impending suppuration of these parts. The cellu- 
lar tissue about the neck is inflamed, so that the cutaneous surface 
here has a dark red or bluish erysipelatous hue. If the child is deli- 
rious, the delirium is always mild. The eruption does not come out 
fully, but when it does appear it is of a dark color, and is apt to be 
miliary. Rhus, you see, thus acts on the vital forces. It depresses 
the sensorium, as shown by the drowsiness and mild delirium. The 
secretions are altered, becoming acrid. Not only the cervical glands, 
but the glands in all parts of the body may become enlarged, and 
especially those of the axilla. The body is emaciated and the patient 
grows weaker. 

Lachesis and Ailanthus follow Rhus well in this condition, but they 
present an even more adynamic picture. Aila?ithus is especially indi- 
cated when the skin is covered with a scanty dark bluish rash. The 
throat inside is swollen. The cellular tissue of the neck is infiltrated. 
There is excoriating nasal discharge and the child is drowsy and 
stupid. 

Aruni triphyllum is similar to Ailanthus in that it has the excoriating 
coryza. The corners of the mouth are sore, cracked and bleeding. 
The saliva even is acrid. The child is irritable and restless. (See lec- 
ture on Aracetz.) 

Belladonna also has this enlargement and induration of the axillary 
glands, but it is often neglected in this condition. It is especially 
useful for the symptom occurring in females at the climaxis. 

In scarlatina compare Calcarea ostrearum. The parotid glands be- 
come affected. The rash recedes, leaving the face puffed and pale. 

In variola you will find Rhus indicated when the pustules turn black 
from effusion of blood within, and when there is diarrhoea with dark 
bloody stools. 

In eczema you should compare Mezereum with Rhus, especially in 
scrofulous cases when hard, thick chalky crusts form, which crack and 
ooze copiously of pus. Itching is more intense at night when the pa- 
tient is warmly wrapped up. Sometimes pimples surround the main 
seat of the disease. 



234 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Nux jugla,7is is one of our very best remedies in tinea favosa, espe- 
cially when it occurs on the scalp and behind the ears. Itching is in- 
tense at night, so that the patient has difficulty in sleeping. Scabs ap- 
pear on the arms and in the axilla. 

Psorinum produces a scaly dirty-looking eruption with itching worse 
from the warmth of the bed. 

Graphites has more rough skin and oozing of glutinous fluid. 

We next study the action of Rhus on the mucous membranes. It 
produces a copious coryza with redness and oedema of the throat. It 
is indicated in influenza with severe aching of all the bones, sneezing 
and coughing. The cough is dry in character, and is worse in the 
evening until midnight and from uncovering the body ; cough from 
tickling behind the upper half of the sternum. Especially is Rhus in- 
dicated when the trouble arises from exposure to dampness. 

Mezereum has cough worse from sunset to 12 p. m. Sanguinaria and 
Pulsatilla, evening cough better sitting up in bed, the former with 
relief from belching. 

Hepar resembles Rhus in the exaggerated sensitiveness to cold air 
so that even the exposure of a hand excites the cough, which, how- 
ever, is usually moist. 

In diarrhoea calling for Rhus, the stools consist of blood and slime 
mixed with reddish-yellow mucus. Thus you see that it is of dysen- 
teric character. With this character to the stool, Rhus is indicated in 
dysentery, when there are tearing pains down the thighs during defe- 
cation. I once cured with Rhus a case of small-pox which had degen- 
erated into a haemorrhagic type, pustules containing bloody pus; the 
indications for the remedy were : stools of dark blood, with pains 
tearing down the thighs during stool. 

In other abdominal inflammations assuming a typhoid type, Rhus 
may be indicated, as I have already said, whether the affection be 
peritonitis, enteritis, typhlitis, perityphlitis, or metritis. In diseases 
of the puerperal state, Rhus is a capital remedy when the symptoms 
are of a typhoid type. 

There is a colic curable by Rhus. It may or may not be of rheu- 
matic origin. The pain is relieved by bending double and moving 
about. It thus differs from Colocynth, which has relief from bending 
double, but not from motion, although the severity of the pain may 
drive the patient into moving about. 

Now, the head symptoms of Rhus. There is a form of vertigo, 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 235 

common with old people, which comes on as soon as the patient rises 
from a sitting posture. It is associated with heavy feelings in the 
limbs, and is doubtless indicative of some senile changes in the brain. 
Rhus tox. is one of the remedies which can palliate this condition. 
Sometimes they have a swashing feeling in the brain when moving 
about. In this swashing feeling in the brain, compare with Rhus the 
following : Cinchona, Sulphuric acid, Bellado?ina, Spigelia, and Carbo 
animalis. 

Rhus is of value in many affections of the eye. We find it useful 
in scrofulous ophthalmia when phlyctenules form on and about the 
cornea. Most intense photophobia is present. The eyelids, which are 
also involved in the inflammatory process, are spasmodically closed. 
If you force the lids apart there will gush forth a yellow pus. The 
pains in the eyes are worse at night. 

You may use it in conjunctivitis caused by getting wet (also Calc. 
ost.). 

Rhus may also be used in iritis either of rheumatic or traumatic 
origin. The inflammation may extend to and involve the choroid, 
and still Rhus will be the remedy. Pains shoot through the eyes 
to the back of the head, and are worse at night. On opening the eyes 
there is a profuse flow of hot tears. In some cases the inflammation 
may go on to suppuration. 

In glaucoma, Rhus has sometimes proved useful. 

In orbital cellulitis, it is almost a specific. It should always be 
given in cases in which the symptoms indicate no other remedy. 

It is also one of the best remedies we have for ptosis in rheumatic 
patients after exposure to dampness. 

Causticum is here the nearest concordant remedy of Rhus, but you 
must also think of Gelsemium, Sepia, and Kalmia in this symptom. 
The last-named remedy has a sensation of stiffness in the eyelids and 
in the muscles about the eyes. 

The otalgia of Rhus is accompanied by pulsations in the ear at 
night ; sensation as if some one was blowing in the ear ; whistling, 
etc., becoming loud, as if the membrana tympani had burst, when 
lying down. 

A local symptom of the face calling for Rhus in rheumatic patients 
is pain in the maxillary joints as if the jaw would break. Every time 
the patient makes a chewing motion with the mouth the jaw cracks. 
Easy dislocation of the inferior maxilla calls for Rhus. Ignatia and 
Petroleum are here similar. 



236 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

In toothache, Rhus may be indicated when the pains are made worse 
by cold and relieved by warm applications. There is an exception to 
this however, /. e. t in jumping toothache, when the pain is momentarily 
relieved by the application of the cold hand. The teeth feel loose, or 
as if they were too long and as if asleep. The gums are sore and feel 
as if ulcerated. 

In various forms of paralysis, Rhus may be indicated, especially in 
rheumatic patients when the trouble has come on from over-exertion 
or exposure to wet, as from lying on the damp ground. In the latter 
case, the trouble probably finds its origin in a rheumatic inflammation 
of the meninges of the cord. 

If, however, the exposure to wet excites a myelitis, Dulcamara is 
the remedy. 

Rhus may also be used in the acute spinal paralysis of infants. 

In these different forms of paralysis, Sulphur holds a complementary 
relation to Rhus. 



LECTURE XXII. 

COMPOSITE. 

The next order of plants to be considered is the Composites, a very- 
large order, from which we obtain a number of drugs ; namely, Arnica, 
Chamomilla, Cina, Eupatorium perfoliatum and purpureum, Artemisia 
vulgaris, Artemisia abrotanum, Artemisia tridentata, Absi?itkium, 
Millefolium, Taraxacum, and Cale?idula. 



Composite. 



Arnica. 



Chamomilla. 



f Capillaries. 
| Typhoid. 
I Injuries. 
[ Organs. 



Abdomen. 

Brain and spine, 
j Fever. 
(^ Organs. 



Brain and medulla. 



Cina. 



Artemisia vulgaris. 
Absinthium. 

Millefolium. 



Eupatorium perf. ^ 

-,-a • [ Fever. 

Eupatorium purp. J 

Taraxacum. Liver. 

We shall now proceed to study the first one of these. 

Arnica Montana. 

Arnica montana is commonly called leopard's bane. The tincture 
of the drug should be prepared from the roots of the plant rather than 
from the flowers, because the latter are infested by little insects, the 
bodies of which, together with the eggs, considerably modify the 
action of the pure drug, and, of course, add symptoms which are 



238 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

foreign to the genuine effects of Arnica. We also find an essential oil 
in the flowers differing somewhat from that found in the roots. I 
do not know why the plant has been called the leopard's bane, for it 
is hardly poisonous. While there have been a few cases of death re- 
sulting from its extravagant use, most of them have been traced to 
preparations in which the flowers were used, so that it is not unlikely 
that the fatal result was due to the insects. The species which is 
officinal in our materia medica, the Arnica montana, does not grow in 
this country, but is indigenous to Europe. Its essential oil contains 
an imperfectly known alkaloid called Arnicin, and a starchy substance 
known as Inulin. 

To understand Arnica properly as a whole you must know that it 
affects the blood-vessels. Bxactly how it does this, I can hardly tell 
you, for it is not clearly defined in my own mind ; but the results I can 
tell you. It so affects the walls of the blood-vessels, particularly of the 
capillaries, that dilatation of the small vessels and extravasation of 
blood becomes possible. This weakening of the capillary wall, which 
admits of extravasation of blood, explains the applicability of Arnica 
to trauma. It also explains the relation of the drug to typhoid con- 
ditions. Now if you will keep before your minds this fact, that Arnica 
so alters the capillaries that blood may ooze through their walls, you 
will understand its symptoms. There seems to be a venous stasis pro- 
ducing an extravasation of blood. This form of oozing cannot occur 
from a healthy vessel. 

Ar?iica is applicable to both the acute and the chronic effects of in- 
juries. The acute injuries for which it is useful are the following: 
simple bruises in which there are well-marked ecchymoses ; concus- 
sions of the brain or spine or of both. We have no remedy which 
equals Arnica in these last-named cases. Even compression of the 
brain comes within the range of Arnica, whether this compression be 
the result of a displaced fragment of bone in cranial fracture, or the 
result of effusion of blood within the cranial cavity. Arnica cannot, of 
course, cure in the former of these cases ; an operation is demanded in 
order to obtain permanent relief. 

You may use Arnica in injuries of the muscles from a strain or from 
a sudden wrench, as in case of heavy lifting, and in haemorrhages of 
mechanical origin. Fractures of the bones may call for the use of 
Arnica, both externally and internally, to relieve the swelling and 
tumefaction of the limb, and also to relieve the twitching of muscles, 
a reflex symptom of the fracture. 



COMPOSITE. 239 

In the chronic effects of injury we may use Arnica when diseases 
(which may even be entirely foreign in their appearance to the ordi- 
nary symptomatology of the drug) may be traced to a traumatic origin. 
No matter what that disease may be, whether of the brain, eyes, lungs 
or nerves, if the injury is the exciting cause, the administration of 
Arnica is proper. 

Again, as Arnica undoubtedly acts on the muscular tissue itself, we 
may use it for the consequences of diseases in the muscle ; for instance, 
when one has been working very laboriously, and in consequence the 
whole body feels sore and bruised, as if pounded ; or again, when 
heavy work may have caused hypertrophy of the heart. This last- 
named is not strictly a disease, but it ends in disease. The heart is a 
muscle that grows under the stimulus of exercise as much as does the 
biceps of the arm. As a result of the cardiac hypertrophy, the patient 
complains of swelling of the hands on any exertion. They become 
redder than usual, and swell when the arm is permitted to hang down. 
The pulse you will find to be full and strong. When the heart has 
reached this stage of hypertrophy, there are local symptoms in addi- 
tion to those mentioned. The heart feels as though tightly grasped 
by the hand. The whole chest feels sore and bruised, and he cannot 
bear his clothing to touch it. 

This will at once suggest to you Cactus, which has that constriction 
about the heart. Cactus, however, does not have a traumatic origin 
for its symptoms. 

The sensitiveness of the chest suggests Lachesis, but is a different 
symptom under Arnica, which lacks the sensitiveness of the peripher- 
ies of the nerves that Lachesis has ; but has a genuine soreness from 
fulness of the bloodvessels. 

Other remedies to be compared with Arnica in this hypertrophy of 
the heart are : 

Rhus tox., especially if there is rheumatic diathesis. 

Arsenicum, if it has resulted from climbing high places. 

Bromine has also been successfully used in this condition. 

Now let me give you the typhoid symptoms of Arnica, which, 
although very different from those just mentioned, depend upon a 
similar condition of the bloodvessels. 

The changes in the bloodvessels due to the typhoid poison favor the 
formation of ecchymoses here and there over the body. There is also 
a passive congestion of the brain. This is shown by drowsiness and 



240 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

indifference to those about him and to his condition. The patient falls 
asleep while answering questions, just as we find in Baptisia. With 
these symptoms you almost always find the head hot and the body not 
hot. The symptom in the materia medica reads, " the head is hot and 
the body cool, or at least not hot," implying that there is a difference 
in temperature between the head and the rest of the body, and this 
has been so often confirmed that it is well for you to remember it. 
The patient complains of a bruised feeling all over the body, so that 
the bed feels too hard to him. He is restless and tosses about the bed 
to find a soft spot on which to rest ; and yet the fault is not with the 
bed, but with himself. Sugillations from hypostasis appear on the 
back. The lungs become affected — and here, too, the same character 
of Arnica shows itself. There is a cough, with expectoration of 
mucus and blood. If the patient is still sufficiently conscious he will 
complain of sore bruised feeling in the walls of the chest. There is a 
brown streak down the centre of the tongue. As the case progresses 
still further, Arnica may yet be called for, when the pressure of the 
blood in the brain is sufficient to cause apoplectic symptoms. The 
breathing becomes heavy, and even stertorous. The lower jaw drops. 
Petechise appear on the skin, and both stool and urine are passed in- 
voluntarily, the patient, of course, being in a stupor. These are the 
typhoid symptoms of Arnica. 

Now for the muscular symptoms. Arnica develops a true myalgia. 
The pains occur in the muscles of any part of the body. They are of 
traumatic origin, or they come from over-exertion, and are accom- 
panied by this sore, bruised feeling, which is so necessary to the 
choice of the drug. 

In rheumatism, you may employ Arnica, not for true inflammatory 
rheumatism, but for the local rheumatism which occurs in winter 
weather, and which seems often to be the combined effect of exposure 
to dampness and of cold and strain on the muscles from over-exertion. 
The affected parts feel sore and bruised. Any motion, of course, 
aggravates this sensation. There are sharp, shooting pains, which 
run down from the elbow to the forearm, or which shoot through the 
legs and feet. The feet often swell and feel sore and bruised. 

In cases of injury, the drugs to be thought of in connection with 
Arnica are these : first, Rhus tox., which, as I have already told you 
more than once, is preferable to Arnica when the ligaments of a joint, 
rather than the soft parts, are involved in an injury. It acts on the 



COMPOSITE. 241 

fibrous structures. Arnica is suited more to tumefaction of the other 
tissues. 

Calendula is to be thought of when the injury causes a torn or 
ragged wound, possibly with loss of substance. Calendula removes 
the inflammatory condition of the part, and so permits of healthy 
granulation. 

Hypericum is to be substituted for Aynica when the nerves have been 
injured along with the other soft parts. Nothing equals Hypericum 
in cases of mashed finger. It relieves the pain and promotes healing. 
It often follows Arnica in concussion of the spine. Dr. Ludlam, of 
Chicago, was very partial to Hypericum in this trouble of the spinal cord, 
and with good reason, for not only has he relieved some severe cases 
with it, but the provings show a perfect picture of the results of spinal 
injury. 

Another drug is Staphisagria. This is the remedy for smooth clean 
cuts, such as are made by the surgeon's knife, and hence it is called 
for in symptoms which are traceable to surgical operations. Even if 
the symptoms which follow are not apparently connected with the 
symptomatology of Staphisagria, you may expect, when they arise 
from this cause, to obtain relief by its administration. 

Ledum is useful after Arnica when the latter remedy fails to relieve 
the soreness. It is also suited to injuries inflicted by pointed instru- 
ments, therefore in punctured wounds. 

Symphytum officinale is the proper remedy for bone injuries. For 
example, when a blow on the eyes injures the orbital plates of the 
frontal bone. It may also be administered in case of irritable stump 
after amputation ; and also for irritability of bone at the point of 
fracture. 

If the latter condition is the result of impaired nutrition, Calcarea 
phos. should be prescribed. 

For violent burning, stinging pains in a stump after operation, 
Allium cepa is the remedy. 

Arnica may be used as a preventive of pyaemia. It is thought by 
some physicians that this remedy promotes the evacuation of pus, 
that it promotes the appearance of pus on the surface of a sore. With 
the object of preventing pyaemia, some surgeons use Arnica after 
operations, applying it locally and giving it internally at the same time. 

This property of Arnica, to prevent pyaemia, lies at the foundation of 
the routine practice among physicians of giving this drug to women 
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242 , A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

after delivery. It tends to relieve the soreness following parturition 
and promotes proper contraction of the uterus and expulsion of 
coagula and of any portions of the membranes that may have been 
retained. 

Arnica has an action on the skin, producing crops of boils all over 
the body. They begin with soreness and go on to suppuration, and 
are followed by another crop. It may also be used in boils and 
abscesses which have partially matured but which, instead of dis- 
charging, shrivel up by reason of absorption of the contained pus. 
Arnica given internally and applied externally redevelops the abscess. 

Further, in connection with the action of Arnica, I would call your 
attention to the effects of the drug on the gastro-intestinal tract. We 
find it indicated in dyspepsia, when, after a meal, there is impending 
apoplectic congestion of the brain with throbbing headache and 
drowsiness ; and also, when there is some difficulty in the digestion of 
food ; there are foul breath, slimy yellow coating of the tongue, eructa- 
tion of gas tasting like rotten eggs, tympanitic distension of the ab- 
domen and foul-smelling stools. 

Arnica may be called for in cholera infantum, diarrhoea or dysen- 
tery ; the stools have a foul odor and are slimy, bloody, and even 
purulent, and are accompanied by great urging and straining to stool. 
The dyspeptic symptoms just mentioned will be present, and there are 
sharp, stitching pains through the abdominal walls. The patient is 
thirsty, and yet he does not know what he wants to drink. 

I should like, in closing my remarks on Arnica, to mention its use 
in whooping-cough. It is indicated in children who have a violent 
tickling cough, which seems to be excited whenever the child becomes 
angry. The child loses its breath when it cries. Before a paroxysm 
it begins to cry. Why ? The lungs and trachea are sore. The little 
sufferer knows what is coming and dreads it ; that is the interpreta- 
tion of the symptom. The expectoration is frothy, slimy and always 
mixed with blood. 

In compression of the brain from apoplectic extravasation of blood, 
Arnica may be used when associated with the hemiplegia ; there is an 
aching soreness all over the body. Bed-sores form very readily. 

Artemisia Vulgaris. 

Artemisia vulgaris, another member of the order Composite, is a 
very serviceable remedy in epilepsy, brought on by violent emotions, 



COMPOSITE. 243 

and especially by fright. The attacks come in rapidly repeated seiz- 
ures, that is to say, several convulsions come close together and then 
there is a long interval of rest. The paroxysms are usually followed by 
sleep. Again, Artemisia vulgaris seems to be of some use in that form 
of epileps}' known as "petit mat." The patient is walking in the 
street, when, suddenly, he stops, stares into vacancy, possibly mum- 
bles a few words, regains a normal condition, and then goes his way 
totally unconscious of anything unusual having happened. 

Artemisia, like other members of the order (Cina more prominently 
than any of the others), has an effect on the eye. We find under the 
drug the symptom : " colored light produces dizziness ; " for example, 
when seated near a stained-glass window the patient becomes dizzy. 
In addition to this it causes a well-developed asthenopia. On attempt- 
ing to use the eyes the patient experiences pain in them, together with 
blurring of the vision, the latter symptom being momentarily relieved 
by rubbing the eyes. This is easily explained ; the asthenopia is due 
to muscular defect and error of accommodation. By rubbing the 
eyes, the accommodation is temporarily restored. 

Absinthium. 

Absinthium, another form of wormwood, is of interest to you not only 
as a medicine, but also because you will meet with cases of its abuse 
in those who indulge in it as a drink. The first effect of Absinthe is 
an exhilaration of the mind, soon followed by damaging results, among 
which is horrible delirium and eventually epileptiform spasms. In 
this delirium the patient is obliged to walk about. You will note this 
symptom running through all the remedies of the order. Chamomilla 
and Cina have relief from moving about ; Artemisia has desire to 
move about ; and here under Absinthium the patient walks about in 
distress, seeing all sorts of visions. The use we may make of Absin- 
thium is in the sleeplessness of typhoid fever when there is congestion 
at the base of the brain. 

Millefolium 

is of interest to you as being a remedy in haemorrhages from the lungs, 
uterus, bowels, etc. The flow of blood is bright red, and usually 
profuse. 

It is distinguished from Aconite by the absence of anxiety. 



244 a clinical materia medica. 

Taraxacum, 

or the ordinary dandelion, is a decided liver remedy. If given long 
enough, it will produce a free flow of bile. The symptoms to guide 
you in its selection are these : the tongue is mapped, and there are 
bitter taste in the mouth, chilliness after eating or drinking, pain and 
soreness in the region of the liver, and bilious diarrhoea. The use of 
this drug in typhoid fever was mentioned in a recent lecture on Rhus 
toX. Artemisia tridentata also suits bilious patients who suffer from 
headache, vertigo, nausea, bitter taste, backache, etc. 

EUPATORIUM PERFOUATUM, 

or the bone-set, is a popular remedy in malarial districts for chills and 
fever. In this disease it is indicated by the following symptoms : 
the chill begins from seven to nine A. m., preceded by headache and 
insatiable thirst, which rarely continues into the fever. It first appears 
in the back and is accompanied by aching in the limbs, as though 
every bone in the body were being broken. This is followed by high 
fever with increase of the aching, and this by sweat, which is scanty 
or profuse. In some cases there is a double periodicity; the chill 
comes in the morning of one day and in the evening of the next. 

You may also think of Eupatorium perfoliatum in influenza with 
hoarseness worse in the morning, and cough with extreme soreness 
along the trachea and even to the finest ramifications of the bronchial 
tubes. With this there will be the aching all through the body as if 
in the bones, which impels the sufferer to move, but no relief is 
obtained thereby. 

Eupatorium purpureum has been used for chill beginning in the 
back. I do not know of any symptom distinguishing it from Eupa- 
torium perfoliatum. 

Artemisia Abrotanum. 

Artemisia abrotanum, or Southernwood, has an intensely bitter taste, 
is suited to cases of suddenly appearing spinal inflammation and to 
chronic myelitis. There are sudden aching pains in the back which 
are relieved by motion ; numbness and paralysis. It is especially 
called for in rheumatic patients with lameness and stiffness of the 
joints. It is useful in patients of the class who are suffering from the 



COMPOSITE. 245 

effects of suppressed conditions. There is a strong tendency to metas- 
tasis. Thus rheumatism, either spontaneously or from meddlesome 
local treatment, leaves the extremities and goes to the heart. After 
the extirpation of haemorrhoids or the checking of diarrhoea, gastric 
symptoms supervene. 

Abrotanum is one of the remedies which is applicable in the metas- 
tasis of mumps to the testicle or mammary gland, and should be 
studied along with Pulsatilla, Carbo vegetabilis and perhaps Arsenicum. 

We also find it indicated in marasmus occurring in weak children 
who are emaciated, wrinkled, pale, with blue rings around the eyes, 
gnawing hunger and bloated abdomen. You may distinguish it from 
other drugs that have like symptoms, especially by the fact that the 
emaciation is first noticed in the lower extremities. 



LECTURE XXIII. 

CINA AND CHAMOMILLA. 

ClNA. 

The medicinal virtues of Cina are largely, although not entirely, due 
to a poisonous active principle which it contains; that active principle 
is Sa?itoni?ie, the central point of action of which is the abdominal 
ganglia, whence are reflected nervous impressions to all other parts of 
the body, but principally to the brain and spine. As a result of this 
primary action on the abdominal ganglia, we have as reflex symptoms, 
convulsive twitchings and jerkingsof the limbs and even violent spasms, 
these latter usually being of a tonic character. Strabismus also is 
present. Under the influence of Cina, the face is pale, and it con- 
tinues so, even if there be fever. Ipecacuanha and Bryonia also 
have this symptom. With the pale face of Cina, there are usually 
associated dark rings about the eyes. The pupils are dilated. The 
child grinds its teeth during sleep. It also picks or bores at the 
nose with its finger. The sleep is restless and attended by crying out. 
This is the general action of Cina. You now know what you may 
expect of the drug. Taking these symptoms into account, we are led 
to the use of Cina for the presence of worms in the alimentary tract. 
The most careful analysis of clinical experience has demonstrated that 
Cina is most powerful for the elimination of round worms. The sickly 
appearance of the face, the blue rings about the eyes, and the grinding 
of the teeth, associated with canine hunger, give a perfect picture for 
the drug. Cina so far corrects the abdominal organs and so far tones 
up the abdominal ganglia, that the mucous membrane of the alimen- 
tary tract pours forth a normal secretion, and the worms, no longer 
having a proper pabulum on which to subsist, die and are expelled. 
This, then, is the use of Cina. 

With the oxyures, those little worms which appear about the anus 
and get into the rectum, Cina is of no avail, because the symptoms 
caused by them are not symptoms of Cina. For these, we have 
another group of remedies. 

Aconite, when the child is feverish and cannot sleep. 

When the child is simply much excited, you may give Ig?iatia. 



CINA AND CHAMOMIIXA. 247 

Indigo is the best remedy when convulsions result from the worms. 

If all these fail, think of Quassia. 

Caladium seguinu?n is the best remedy in little girls when the 
worms travel over the perinseum and get into the vagina. The irrita- 
tion they produce may thus excite masturbation. 

We may also make use of Cina in affections of the eyes, especially 
in asthenopia from defective accommodation. When the patient at- 
tempts to read, the eyes begin to ache, the letters become blurred and 
a cloud comes over the field of vision. Relief is obtained by rubbing 
the eyes. The same condition I have already told you is found under 
Artemisia vulgaris. It is also a symptom of Euphrasia, being due to 
the mucus which gathers in a film over the cornea. 

A very peculiar effect on the eye produced by Santonine is, that 
objects look yellow. 

Cina being a spasmodic remedy, we may expect it to be useful in 
whooping-cough, in which disease it is indicated when the paroxysms 
come regularly through night or day and are accompanied by tonic 
convulsions. Just after a paroxysm, a gurgling sound is heard. Cina 
may also be used in cough reflex from the irritation of worms. 

As a concomitant of all these conditions, we find the temperament 
of Cina. It is indicated in children who are irritable, nervous and 
peevish ; who resent being touched or even looked at. They are 
obstinate and permit no one to approach them. 

Cina seems to have some effect on the bladder, producing wetting of 
the bed at night, usually during the first sleep. The urine is pale 
and turbid and sometimes has a very strong odor. This latter symp- 
tom would remind you of Phosphoric acid, which also has enuresis in the 
fore-part of the night. 

Probably the remedy most frequently called for in enuresis during the 
first sleep is Sepia, although it will also be found voider Benzoic acid 
and Kreosote. 

Cina is not often used in intermittent fever, but it is sometimes in- 
dicated by thirst during the chill and occasionally during the fever 
also. Pale face is present even during the hot stage. There are also 
vomiting, canine hunger, and clean tongue. 

Like many of the other members of the order Composite, the Cina 
patient finds relief from moving about. 



248 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 



Chamomilla Matricaria. 

The Chamomilla of the homoeopathic materia medica is the German 
variety, the Chamomilla matricaria. The drug apparently acts best 
upon patients with a morbidly sensitive nervous system. It is like 
Cofiea, Ignalia and Belladonna then, in so far as it lessens nervous ex- 
citability. 

Slight impressions produce distress and anguish of mind ; pains often 
result in fainting. Here it is similar to Valeria?! , Hepar, Veratrum 
album and Nux moschata. It is especially applicable to these symp- 
toms when they appear after long-continued use of narcotics. 

In every disease in which Chamomilla is indicated, we notice this 
peculiar excitability. The patient, whether it be child or adult, a 
woman in labor or with toothache, is cross and excitable. Unless this 
mental state is present, Chamomilla will most likely fail you. 

When violent emotions, like anger, affect the viscera, as, for ex- 
ample, the liver with jaundice, you may think of the drug under con- 
sideration. In this condition it stands related to a few drugs. 

Staphisagria is indicated in children or adults when colic follows a 
fit of anger. 

Bryonia has gastro-enteric symptoms after anger. Under this^ 
remedy, however, the symptoms are associated with chilliness, under 
Chamomilla with heat ; under Bryotiia the face is dark red, under 
Chamomilla } pale with one red cheek. The Bryonia tongue is coated 
white, that of Chamomilla yellow. 

Colocynth has vomiting, diarrhoea and violent colicky pains from a 
fit of anger, but may easily be distinguished by the fact that the 
pains are relieved by bending double and from firm pressure. 

Continuing the nervous symptoms of Chamomilla, we find the drug 
useful for insomnia in children, when they start during sleep and the 
muscles of the face and hands twitch. With these symptoms there is 
apt to be colic ; the face is red, especially one cheek, and the head and 
scalp are bathed in a hot sweat. A word of explanation is here neces- 
sary. Sometimes, during an attack of fever in a child, the cheek on 
which it lies becomes red ; now that is not a Chamomilla symptom. 
These nervous symptoms of Chamomilla are generally reflex from the 
abdomen. There is very little evidence of delirium in these cases. 
When brain complications are present Chamomilla ceases to be the 
remedy, and Belladomia comes in. 



CIXA AND CHAMOMILLA. 249 

When, during dentition, Chamomilla fails, Belladonna is the remedy, 
because it is suited to a more advanced state. 

This same nervous state of Cha?nomilla may be applied to the use of 
the drug in rheumatism. Rheumatic pains drive the patient out of bed 
and compel him to walk about. He is thirsty, hot, with red cheeks 
and almost beside himself with anguish. Stitching pains jump from 
place to place, but unlike Pulsatilla, they leave a sense of weakness 
and numbness. Sweat does not relieve him, but his pains are better 
after sweat. 

The analogous remedies here are Rhustox., which lacks the excite- 
ment of Chamomilla ; Ferrum metallicum , which has rheumatism better 
from moving about slowly ; Veratrtcm album, which has maddening 
pains, compelling the patient to walk about. With the latter remedy 
there is not the feverishness and excitement which characterize Cham- 
om ilia . 

Chamomilla also acts on mucous membranes, causing symptoms of 
catarrh. It is indicated in the catarrhs of children, when the nose is 
" stopped up," and yet there is a dropping of hot, watery mucus from 
the nostrils ; there are sneezing and inability to sleep; and with these 
a dry, teasing cough, which keeps the child awake, or may even occur 
during sleep; or there is rattling cough, as though the bronchi were 
full of mucus Especially is Chamomilla useful in colds brought on 
by cold windy days. 

Nux vomica is also indicated in catarrhs, when there is a " stopped- 
up" feeling in the nose, but there is no secretion whatever. 

Sambucus is indicated in catarrh, when the child starts up suddenly 
as if suffocating. 

Sticta suits a hard, drj^ barking cough; the nose is "stuffed up" 
and dry ; the real condition is this, the nasal secretion dries so rapidly 
that it cannot be discharged. 

Chamomilla has a number of gastric symptoms. It is useful in bil- 
iousness produced by anger. We find it also indicated in gastralgia, 
especially when the food eaten seems to lie like a load in the stomach. 
There is distension of the hypochondria, the tongue is coated yellow- 
ish-white, and there is a bitter taste in the mouth ; there are colicky 
pains in the abdomen, which are relieved by drinking a cup of coffee. 

Cha??i07?iilla produces a diarrhoea with hot, yellowish-green stool, 
looking like chopped eggs, and often mixed with bile, causing soreness 
at the anus, and having an odor of sulphuretted hydrogen ; it is 
especially worse toward evening ; it is apt to occur during dentition. 



250 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Chamomilla is here frequently followed by Sulphur, because both 
remedies produce the same stools with soreness of the stomach. If 
there is much tenesmus with these symptoms Mercurius is the remedy. 

If the stool is worse in the morning, and comes with a gush, we 
should think of Podophyllum and Sulphur. 

Chamomilla is an invaluable remedy in the lying-in room ; it is in- 
dicated when labor pains begin in the back and pass off down the 
inner side of the thighs. There is great nervous excitement ; the labor 
seems exceedingly painful. After the labor is over, the lochial flow is 
dark and too profuse, and the after-pains are violent and intolerable. 

Chamomilla may be used in threatening abortion caused by anger, 
when the pains are of the character just described, and there is a flow 
of dark blood. 

Viburnum is useful in threatening miscarriage when these pains 
come down the lower part of the abdomen and go into the thighs. It 
will stop the pains even if it cannot prevent the miscarriage. 



LECTURE XXIV. 



MELANTHACEiE. 



Melanthacese. 



Veratrum album, 

Veratrum viride. 
Sabadilla. 

Colchicum. 



Mind. 
Abdomen. 

Circulation. 



i. Nerves. 

2. Abdomen. 

3. Fibrous tissues. 

4. Organs. 



From the Melanthacece we obtain the following medicines : Veratrum 
album, Veratrum viride, Sabadilla, and Colchicum. Of these drugs, 
I may say that I am pretty well persuaded that the Veratrum album 
and Veratrum viride are well understood, and are, therefore, not 
easily misapplied. I am also well persuaded that Colchicum has 
not the place in practice it deserves. True, it comes to us from the 
allopathic school as a remedy highly recommended for gout. We 
ought not, however, from the exorbitant use of the drug by that 
school, to go to the opposite extreme, and neglect it altogether as 
a remedy. 

Colchicum. 

The symptoms of Colchicum I have arranged under four headings. 
The first, the nerves, includes typhoid conditions and debility. You 
must know that the drug tends to produce great prostration, and from 
this arises the great danger in administering it in large doses as a 
routine remedy in gout and rheumatism. While the paroxysms of 
pain may be relieved thereby, there is apt to be induced a condition of 
debility which runs the patient into other and new dangers. 

Let us see how we can use this effect of the drug under our law of 
cure. We find it indicated in debility, particularly in debility follow- 
ing loss of sleep ; for instance, when one does not retire as early as 
usual in the evening, so that he is deprived of a portion of his accus- 
tomed sleep, he awakens next morning feeling tired and languid ; 



252 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

he can hardly drag one leg after the other ; the appetite is gone ; bad 
taste in the mouth and nausea are present. The debility, then, starts 
from or involves digestion as a result of loss of sleep. You can see 
how close this comes to the Nux vomica condition. The debility, 
however, is greater even than that of Nux vomica. There is, at times, 
an aversion to all food ; the odor of food cooking makes the patient 
feel sick ; he becomes irritable ; every little external impression annoys 
him ; here it is precisely like Nux vomica. 

As another form of debility or debilitating fever, we find Colchicum 
indicated at times in typhoid fever. Now, the position of Colchicum 
in typhoid fever is between Arsenicum and Cinchona. First, we find 
that the patient's intellect is beclouded. But although his mind is 
befogged, he still answers your questions correctly, showing you that 
he is not in a complete stupor. Unless questioned concerning it, he 
says nothing about his condition, which does not seem dangerous to 
him. There is not that fearfulness, that dread of death, which char- 
acterizes some other drugs indicated in typhoid fevers. The pupils 
are widely dilated, and very imperfectly sensitive to light. There is a 
cold sweat on the forehead ; here you will at once note a resemblance 
to Veratrum album. When the patient attempts to raise the head 
from the pillow, it falls back again and the mouth opens wide. You 
thus see how weak are the muscles in the Colchicum case. The face 
has a cadaverous appearance. The features are sharp and pointed, 
the nose looks as though it had been pinched or tightly squeezed, and 
the nostrils are dry and even black. The tongue is heavy and stiff, 
and is protruded with difficulty. In extreme cases it is bluish, par- 
ticularly at the base. There is almost complete loss of speech, and 
the breath is cold. There are often nausea and vomiting, the latter 
being attended with considerable retching. These symptoms are as- 
sociated with restlessness and cramps in the legs. The body is hot while 
the extremities are cold. Coming to the abdominal region, we find 
tympanites is exceedingly well marked. Stools are watery and fre- 
quent, and escape involuntarily. These are the symptoms which lead 
you to Colchicum in typhoid states. They greatly resemble those call- 
ing for Arsenicum and Cinchona. They resemble Arsenicum in the 
intensity of the debility and Cinchona in the tympanitic condition. 
Colchicum seems to stand between the two, combining the restlessness 
and debility of Arsenic with the tympany of Cinchona. You will 
notice that the Colchicum symptoms are principally abdominal. Some 









MBIvANTHACE^. 253 

of them suggest Veratrum album. You must, therefore, place this 
remedy in your mind by the side of Colchicum, that you may make the 
necessary distinction between the two. 

Carbo vegetabilis is allied to Colchicum in the coldness of the breath, 
in the tympany, and in the great prostration. But Carbo veg. seems to 
suit when there is giving out of the vital forces. The patient lies cold 
and almost pulseless. The pulse feels much like a slight ripple beneath 
the examining finger ; there is no decided pulsation. The feet and 
the legs below the knees are cold, or there may be coldness of the 
knees and feet, the parts between them not being cold. A watery 
stool is not so characteristic of Carbo veg., the discharges being either 
absent or, if present, dark brown and horribly offensive. 

Next we come to the abdominal symptoms. The tympany and the 
diarrhoea have already been mentioned. In addition to these symp- 
toms we have others which strongly point to the drug as a possible 
remedy in cholera. There are nausea and vomiting, the nausea seem- 
ing to be provoked by the smell of food. Whenever the patient sits 
up, the nausea and vomiting become worse. The matters vomited are 
watery and bilious. When dysenteric symptoms are present, the stools 
are frequent, watery and blood} 7 , and contain shreds which were 
formed}- 7 supposed to be portions of the lining membrane of the bowels, 
but which are now known to be a plastic formation from exudation. 
Tenesmus is violent, and is followed by spasm of the sphincter ani. 
If you have a case of dysentery with these symptoms, Colchicum will 
help you out. If there is tympany also, all the more is it indicated, 
being then far preferable to Cantharis, Mercurius or any other remedy 
in our materia medica. 

The third heading on the board is " Fibrous tissues." This brings 
us to the consideration of Colchicum in rheumatism and gout. Now, 
Colchicum has a special affinity for the fibrous tissues. I include under 
this term the tendons and aponeuroses of muscles, ligaments of joints 
and even the periosteum. The swelling produced by it is either dark 
red or pale in color, with no particular tendency to suppuration, 
extremely sensitive to touch, and with a strong tendency to shift from 
joint to joint. In rheumatism proper, Colchicum is indicated when it 
begins in one joint and travels thence to another, or in one side of the 
body and then flies to the other. The pains are worse in the evening. 
The joint is extremely sensitive to the slightest motion. The urine is 
dark red and scanty, just such as you would expect to find in gout or 



254 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

rheumatism. You will find such patients exceedingly irritable. Every 
little external impression, as light, noise or strong odors, annoys them, 
and pain seems to be unbearable. The only difference between these 
symptoms and those of gout is that in the latter the great-toe is in- 
volved, and the paroxysms occur in the night. 

Sometimes we have metastasis of rheumatism or gout to the chest. 
Even then Colchicum may be the remedy. In valvular heart disease 
or pericarditis following rheumatism, it is indicated by violent cutting 
and stinging pains in the chest, particularly about the heart, with 
great oppression and dyspnoea. There is also the sensation as if the 
chest were being squeezed by a tight bandage. Colchicum stands 
almost alone in gout and rheumatism. There are no remedies similar 
to it in action here. 

Colchicum is sometimes indicated in dropsy with suppression of 
urine. The dropsy is particularly liable to appear as hydrothorax. 
What urine does pass contains blood, and is almost as black as ink, 
and is loaded with albumen. Hence you see that it is indicated in 
dropsy depending upon Bright' s disease. Here it resembles, quite 
closely, Lachesis, which also has this black urine. 

It also resembles Terebinthina, which causes congestion of the kid- 
neys with rupture of the fine capillaries, and consequent pouring out - 
of blood into the pelvis of the kidneys. The urine contains tube-casts. 
It is smoky in appearance, and has a dirty pinkish deposit. 

Thus you have seen when Colchicum may be used in rheumatism, 
when in typhoid fever, and when in simple debility. The fact that 
the protracted use of Colchicu?n is followed by great prostration will 
lead you to study the drug, when after frequent acute attacks of gout 
the patient becomes greatly weakened. 

In affections of the heart Colchicum is closely allied to Spigelia. 

When Colchicum has been abused, Spigelia is the remedy to be used 
' as an antidote. 

Veratrum Album. 

Veratrum album is not a difficult remedy to understand. It has been 
used since the days of Hahnemann for cholera Asiatica, cholera morbus 
and other abdominal affections. Its symptoms in this relation are well 
known, but unless you are careful you will neglect an equally impor- 
tant use of the drug, and that is in mental symptoms. In poisoning 
with Veratrum, there are very few symptoms referable to the brain. 



MEEANTHACE^E. 255 

It seems to act prominently on the abdominal organs, probably 
through the splanchnic nerves. When these nerves are paralyzed, 
the blood-vessels become over-charged with blood and pour forth their 
serum. In this respect it is similar to Elaterium. The prostration, 
the coldness and the terrible sinking sensation that belong to Veratrum 
all start from these nerves. But Veratrum may affect the brain as well. 
Even then the symptoms are not unlikely to be associated with cold- 
ness, weakness, etc. 

We may have Veratrum album indicated in delirium. That you 
should notice particularly, as, in this respect, it becomes closely allied, 
apparently, to Belladonna. The delirium is associated with restlessness, 
with desire to cut and tear the clothing, with loquacity and rapid, 
earnest, loud talking; he strikes those about him; anxiety ; frightened 
at imaginary things ; lasciviousness ; lewdness in talk ; he springs out 
of bed and rushes about the room as if thereby to obtain relief. Thus 
far the symptoms are such that you can only with difficult}- distinguish 
them from those of Belladonna and Stramonium. The distinction lies 
here : Veratrum albu?n has coldness of the surface of the body with cold 
sweat on the forehead. Sometimes the face is red and the lips are blue, 
and there is tingling through the limbs. 

Veratrum album is also suitable for women when they surfer from 
abnormal mental impressions arising from disturbance in the sexual 
sphere ; in nymphomania, for instance. The patient is lewd to an 
extreme. She rushes about the room endeavoring to kiss every one. 
These attacks are especially prone to appear before each menstrual 
period. She is constantly framing lies of the most outrageous 
character. 

Veratrum is also to be thought of when after fright, there is great 
coldness of the bod} r with diarrhoea. Gelsemium. Argentum nitricum, 
Aconite and Opium also have diarrhoea after fright. Under Veratmm, 
it is associated with coldness and prostration. 

Now for some of the abdominal symptoms. Veratrum album is 
indicated in affections of the bowels, in cholera morbus, cholera infan- 
tum and cholera Asiatica and in intussusception of the bowels. The 
stools in the diarrhoea calling for Veratrum are profuse, water)' and 
greenish, containing sometimes little flakes that look like spinach. 
At times, too, they are bloody, and are always associated with sharp 
cutting pains in the abdomen, and often, too, with cramps in the 
limbs There is great weakness, almost to fainting, with every effort 



256 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

at stool, and copious, frothy vomiting. Cold sweat on the forehead is 
present. 

In the various choleraic affections more particularly, Veratrum is in- 
dicated by the following symptoms : vomiting and purging at the same 
time, colicky pains through the abdomen with cramps, especially in the 
calves of the legs, profuse watery stools, rice-water stools, as they are 
called. They are attended with great prostration and cold sweat, es- 
pecially on the forehead. It is useless to give Veratrum in choleraic 
affections unless there is pain. The patient is worse at night. Emaci- 
ation is rapid. 

The first remedy to consider here in its relation to Veratrum album 
is Camphor. lyike the former, it produces coldness and symptoms of 
collapse. Camphor is better suited to cholera when the discharges are 
scanty and the nausea marked. Sometimes the upper lip will be 
drawn upward, showing the teeth, making the nauseous expression 
of the face more hideous. The entire body is cold. The voice is 
squeaky or high-pitched. 

Jatropha curcas also produces a perfect picture of cholera. It causes 
vomiting of ropy albuminous matters with purging like water from a 
hydrant, coldness, nausea and gurgling in the abdomen. 

Podophyllum resembles Veratru7n album, in that it produces a per- 
fect picture of cholera morbus. It is especially indicated when the case 
is characterized by the absence of pain. Herein, it is very different 
from Veratrum. The attacks generally come on during the summer. 
The stools are watery and come put with a gush and a splutter like 
water from a hydrant. There is marked loathing of food. The 
bowels are more apt to move after midnight and toward morning. 
The stools are very liable to vary in color, now yellow, now green, etc. 

There is a remedy which is, I think, better suited to the summer 
complaint of children than is Veratrum. I refer to Iris versicolor. It 
produces marked inflammatory symptoms, with excoriated raw feeling 
at the anus. The patient is worse at two or three o'clock in the morn- 
ing. There are nausea and sour and sometimes bilious vomiting. The 
stools are either watery, or are yellowish-green and mixed with bile or 
oily particles. 

Pulsatilla is called for in after-midnight diarrhoea caused by a diet 
of pastry, etc.; or by eating ice-cream immediately after a meal. 

Croton tiglium comes in when the movements are yellowish or yel- 
lowish-green, pouring out with a rush or splutter, like water from a 
hydrant. They are provoked by every attempt to eat or drink. 



MELANTHACE^E. 257 

Elaterium is the remedy for profuse watery stools when they are of 
an olive- green color. 

I have often found Veratrum album useful for cardiac debility fol- 
lowing acute diseases, when the heart-muscle becomes so weak that 
the pulse is thread-like. The patient faints on moving. On lying 
down the face is red ; on sitting up, it turns deathly pale. Often you 
will find the hands cold and clammy. 

Veratrum Viride. 

Although the name of this drug is similar to that just considered, 
you must not reason thereby that it produces the same symptoms. 
Veratrum viride produces congestion of the base of the brain and of 
the upper portion of the spinal cord. It thus interferes with the 
function of the pneumogastric nerves. At first it seems to produce 
engorgement of the lungs, just such as we witness in the beginning of 
pneumonia. This is associated with a high degree of arterial excite- 
ment. If these symptoms go on unchecked, we have dizziness and 
faintness on attempting to sit up, nausea, cold sweat and orthopnoea, 
and in fact every symptom of paralysis of the heart from over-exertion 
of that organ. Thus you will see that Veratrum viride comes in as an 
invaluable remedy in those violent congestions which precede pneu- 
monia. It may even abort the whole disease. 

Veratrum viride also produces oesophagitis, in which disease it may 
be indicated even when the disorder has arisen from traumatic causes. 
It is called for by the difficulty of swallowing and the fiery burning 
pains in the oesophagus. 

In chorea it is also indicated, when in addition to the choreic 
twitching, there is violent congestion of the nerve-centres. Given in 
a low potency it relieves the congestion, and therefore the nervous 
disturbances. 

We may depend on Veratrum viride even in puerperal convulsions. 
The cerebral congestion is profound. The patient lies in a condition 
like that of apoplexy. Between the convulsions she is not conscious, 
but lies in a deep sleep. The face is red, the eyes are injected and 
there is violent convulsive twitching. The pulse is full and bounding. 

In some cases Gelsemium helps when there is a dull, drowsy state of 
mind, but here the pulse, though full, is soft and flowing. 



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258 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 



Sabadilla. 

Iyike Veratrum album, Sabadilla is a useful remedy on account of 
its mental symptoms. It may be used with success in cases of imag- 
inary disease. For example, the patient imagines that she is pregnant 
when she is merely swollen from flatus ; or that she has some horrible 
throat disease which will surely end fatally. 

Thuja has the symptom, imagines herself double or treble, or that 
she is made of glass, and is in constant fear of being touched lest she 
be broken. 

Sabadilla is useful in influenza and that troublesome affection, hay- 
fever. There are violent spasmodic sneezing and lachrymation on go- 
ing into the open air ; the throat also is affected, giving you a perfect 
picture of tonsillitis. The difficulty begins on the left side, and ex- 
tends to the right; the pain is worse on empty swallowing and is relieved 
by warm drinks. Sometimes there is a sensation as of a thread or 
string in the throat, or else a sense of constriction in the throat, as if 
it was tied by a string. Lachesis as you know has sore throat going 
from left to right. It is readily distinguished by the marked aggra- 
vation from hot drinks and after sleep. 

We may also make use of Sabadilla in worms, when there are nausea 
and vomiting associated with a peculiar colic, as though the bowels 
were being whirled around like a wheel. 



LECTURE XXV. 

MENISPERMACEiE. 

The MejiispermacecB is not a yery large order of plants, there being 
derived from it but one remedy that we shall consider in this course 
of lectures. That remedy is Cocculus Indicus. The name given to 
the order has been derived from the shape of the seeds. 

Cocculus Indicus. 

Cocculus Indicus owes its properties to an active principle called 
Picrotoxine, this term being derived from two Latin words meaning, 
when combined, " bitter poison." You will notice by the schedule on 
the board that I have arranged the symptomatology of the remedy 
under two heads, first, the nerves, and secondly, the organs in general. 

' Cerebro-Spinal. 



Cocculus Indicus. 



i. Nerves. < 



Debility. 
Typhoid. 
Spasms. 



2. Organs. 

Now, whatever individual characteristics you may have for a drug 
in an individual case, these characteristics should agree with the gen- 
eral effects of the drug ; otherwise, you are making a partial selection. 
To illustrate : under Belladonna, you know of the symptom, " sleepy, 
but cannot get to sleep ; ' ' that is characteristic of the remedy. But 
we find the same symptom under Cinchona, Ferritin, and Apis. 
How are you to distinguish between them ? By taking the general 
effect of Belladonna as a groundwork, into which the particulars must 
fit. 

Now, we shall find under Cocculus symptoms that are under many 
other drugs, but in no other drug do they hold the same relation as 
they do here. What, then, is the general effect of Cocculus Indicus? 
This effect is the well-known action of the drug on the cerebro-spinal 
system, it having very little influence on the nerves and the ganglionic 
system. How can you find this out ? Not very easily, I confess, but 



26o A ClylNlCAI. MATERIA MKDICA. 

yet this has been done, by studying the drug as a whole, by endeavor- 
ing to discover, by means of physiology, pathology, or any other 
science that bears on the subject, on what portions of the body it 
acts, what functions it alters, and what tissues it changes. Then you 
have a strong basis on which to build your symptomatology. 

Cocculus acts on the cerebro-spinal system, producing great debility 
of these organs ; the action of the drug on the brain itself I will ex- 
plain to you when I come to speak of its use in typhoid fever. We 
will now consider the remedy as it affects the spinal cord. It causes 
a paralytic weakness of the spine, and especially of its motor nerves ; 
thus we find it a certain and frequent remedy in paralysis originating 
in disease of the spinal cord. Especially is it indicated in the begin- 
ning of the trouble, whether it results from functional or from severe 
organic disease of the cord ; whether the disease be spinal irritation 
from loss of seminal fluid, softening of the spinal cord, or locomotor 
ataxia. It is especially indicated in these cases when the lumbar 
region of the spine is affected ; there is weakness in the small of the 
back, as if paralyzed ; the small of the back gives out when walking. 
There is weakness of the legs ; and by legs I mean the entire lower 
extremities ; the knees give out when walking ; the soles of the feet 
feel as if they were asleep ; the thighs ache as if they had been 
pounded ; first one hand then the other goes to sleep ; sometimes the 
whole arm falls asleep, and the hand feels as if swollen. These symp- 
toms lie at the foundation of the symptomatology of the whole drug ; 
they all seem to depend upon spinal weakness. We find these symp- 
toms common enough in women with menstrual difficulties, when the 
back gives out in the morning, after venereal excesses, and also from 
loss of sleep. 

There is a concomitant symptom which you almost always find 
associated with those just mentioned, and that is a feeling of hollo w- 
ness in some one of the cavities of the body, either in the head, chest, 
or abdomen. It is more than a weakness ; it is an absolute feeling as 
though the parts were hollow. Talking tires these patients very much. 

The debility of Cocculus is of spinal origin. Especially is it apt to 
follow loss of sleep ; the patient cannot sit up even one or two hours 
later than usual in the evening without feeling languid and exhausted 
throughout the entire day following. 

Let me next enumerate the typhoid symptoms of Cocculus ; under this 
heading I shall speak of those of the brain. You would not expect 



MKNISPKRMACE^. 26 1 

Cocculus to be indicated in a case of typhoid fever when the changes 
in or ulceration of Peyer's patches are marked, or where there are pro- 
fuse diarrhoea, pneumonia, and similar complications. But in the 
nervous type of the fever, when the cerebro-spinal system is bearing 
the brunt of the disease, Cocculus becomes one of the remedies that will 
help us through the case. The symptoms indicating it are the follow- 
ing : the patient complains of great vertigo, and this is made worse 
when sitting, or when attempting to change from a reclining to a sit- 
ting posture. It is often associated with nausea, inclination to vomit, 
and even fainting. Bryonia also has this symptom. So far as the 
symptom itself is concerned there is no difference between Bryonia and 
Cocculus, yet, if you examine the case thoroughly, you will find that 
in Cocculus it is weakness of the cerebro-spinal nerves that gives origin 
to it. There is great confusion of the mind; a sort of bewildered, 
heavy state might better explain what I mean. It requires a great 
effort to speak plainly. In some cases they cannot find the words 
they wish to convey their meaning. Generally, such patients lie 
quietly wrapped in thought; the eyelids are heavy, as though they could 
hardly be lifted. Here is a symptom reminding you of Gelsemium. 
If the patient is still conscious enough to describe to you his condition, 
he will complain of a feeling of tightness of the brain, as though every 
nerve in the head were being drawn up tightly. At other times, he 
has this empty, hollow, vacant feeling in the head. An}^ attempt to 
move the patient produces faintness or even fainting away. The tongue 
is usually coated white or yellow ; there is bitter taste in the mouth. 
The abdomen is greatly distended and tympanitic ; this tympanites 
under Cocculus is not the same as under Ci?ichona, Carbo veg., Colchicum, 
Sulphur, or even Lycopodium. 

There are several origins of tympanites. It may come from the blood- 
vessels, from the air swallowed with the food, from changes in the food 
itself, and also from retention of flatus. The latter condition is the. 
cause of the tympany under Cocculus Indicus. It is not to be thought 
of as a remedy when flatus results from decomposition of food. That 
calls for Carbo veg. Cocculus has considerable oppression of the lungs, 
this being of nervous origin. It is usually referred by the patient to 
the walls of the chest. The patients are sleepless, or at least business 
thoughts crowd on the mind and keep them in a half-waking state, 
here again resembling Bryonia. These are the symptoms which lead 
you to Cocculus Indicus in typhoid states. 



262 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

The next division for consideration is ' ' Spasms. ' ' Cocculus Indicus 
is useful in spasmodic affections when the patient is greatly debilitated 
as to the cerebro-spinal nervous system. Irritable weakness is the con- 
dition which gives rise to the spasms for which Cocculus is the remedy. 
It is especially useful when spasmodic symptoms ensue as a result of 
prolonged loss of sleep. This condition we meet with more frequently 
in women than we do in men. The former are also more subject to 
spinal weakness. You may also use Coccuhcs for spasms after sup- 
pressed menses. The eyes are usually closed during these convulsions, 
and there is rapid oscillation of the eyeballs beneath the closed lids. 
But the woman must be of a weak, nervous temperament, or Cocculus 
is decreasingly indicated. 

Under the heading ' ' Organs ' ' we still have a word to say about 
Cocculus. First, as to the headache. Some years ago there was an 
epidemic of spotted fever in this city. During that epidemic many 
children died, especially in its earlier days. After a while there was 
discovered a symptom characteristic of the epidemic, and that was in- 
tense headache in the occipital region, in the lower part of the back of 
the head, and in the nape of the neck. The intense headache was 
manifested in various ways. Children in a stupor would manifest it 
by turning the head back, so as to relieve the tension on the mem- 
branes of the brain; others, who were conscious, would put their hands 
to the back of the head, while still others complained of pain in the back 
of the head, as if the part were alternately opening and closing. That 
symptom was under Cocculus. There were very few fatal cases after 
Cocculus was used. Occipital headaches are hard to cure. Cocculus is 
a good remedy. Gelsemium is another. In the latter there is passive 
arterial congestion, by which I mean that the arterial blood flows 
freely to a part, the pulse being full and round, and not hard and tense, 
as under Belladonna or Aconite. There is often thick speech, too, with 
Gelsemium. 

Still another remedy for occipital headache is the Juglans cathartica, 
sometimes called Juglans cinerea, or the butternut. This I consider to 
be the best remedy for sharp pjains in the occipital region. They are 
often accompanied by nausea, dull pain in the right hypochondrium, 
jaundice and other symptoms of liver involvement. 

We have already anticipated some of the symptoms of Cocculus per- 
taining to the female genital organs. The menses are either profuse, 
coming too often or with a gush, and very debilitating, or they are 



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tardy in their appearance, and the patient suffers each month from 
what has been termed menstrual colic. We have a little group of 
remedies for this condition, consisting of Cocculus, Pulsatilla and Chamo- 
milla. First let me describe the symptoms of Cocculus. This remedy 
is indicated by a colic in which the pain is as if there were sharp stones 
rubbing against each other in the abdomen. There is very often with 
this colic excessive distension of the abdomen from accumulation of 
flatus. The colic is especially liable to awaken the patient at mid- 
night. It is relieved by belching, but returns again from the re- 
accumulation of flatus. The patient is, of course, irritable. 

Under Chamomilla the menstrual flow is very dark. The mental 
symptoms described to you in my lecture on that drug are necessarily 
present. 

Pulsatilla has scanty menstrual flow, coming by fits and starts, grip- 
ing pains doubling the patient up ; but the disposition is mild and tear- 
ful. 

Cyclamen is similar to Pulsatilla. It has chilliness with the pains;, 
crying, tearful mood ; dyspepsia, made worse by eating fat food and 
pastry ; scanty menses ; menstrual colic. But we make the distinction 
here : Cyclameji does not have relief in the cool air or in the cool room, 
and in many cases Cyclamen has thirst. The resemblance between 
Cocculus and Cyclamen lies in the fact that both remedies suit a de- 
pressed condition of the cerebro-spinal nervous system. More particu- 
larly the indications for Cyclamen are these : the patient feels dizzy ; 
is weak from any motion ; is highly anaemic ; and usually worse when 
sitting up. These symptoms are commonly associated with dimness of 
vision. We also find under Cyclamen this flatulent colic, arising from 
wind in the bowels, coming on at night, and relieved only by getting 
up and walking about. Compare also, in menstrual colic, Ignatia and 
Nux vomica. 



LECTURE XXVI. 

PAPAVERACE^. 

WE now proceed to study the Papaveracece ; an order of plants from 
which we obtain Opium, Sanguinaria Canade?isis, and Chelidonium 
majus. As an order, they act on the circulation of the blood, tending 
to produce narcosis of a greater or less degree by engorging the 
blood-vessels of the brain. The effect thus produced on the sen- 
sorium ranges all the way from sleepiness to stupor. This, you know, 
is eminently true of Opium, and, to a less degree, of Sanguinaria and 
Chelidonium. Fumaria officinalis contains an enormous amount of pot- 
ash in its ashes ; Argemone Mexicana, the Mexican poppy or yellow 
thistle, has been used in the treatment of tinea. It has a yellow juice, 
which, when exposed to the air, looks like Gamboge. We shall now 
take up the study of these drugs seriatim. 

Opium. 



( Brain. Emotions. 
Spasms. Paralysis. 
Marasmus. 
Opium. \ Constipation. Bladder. 
Sleep. 
Chest. Lungs. Heart. 
Defective reaction. 

Opium is obtained, as you probably know, from the unripe capsules 
of the poppy plant, Papaver somniferum. The unripe capsules are 
usually employed in its manufacture, because they are more power- 
fully soporific. In some respects opium is the most remarkable drug 
in our materia medica. You know that many drugs owe the majority 
of their effects to active principles which they contain. Thus Bella- 
do?i?ia contains Atropine ; Stramonium, Solanine ; Nux vomica, Strych- 
nine, etc. ; but Opium seems to embrace an endless number of these ac- 
tive principles and each succeeding year adds to the list. Let me 
enumerate them — they are as follows : 

Morphine, Protopine, 

Pseudo-morphine, Methylnornarcotine, 



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Codeine, Deuteropine, 

Apocodeine, Laudanine, 

Thebain, Codamine, 

Cotamine, Papaverine, 

Hydrocotamine, Rhoeagenine, 

Apomorphine, Rhoeadine, 

Desoxymorphine, Dimethylnornarcotine, 

Nornarcotine, Meconidine, 

Thebenine, Cryptopine, 

Laudanisine, Narceine, 

Narcotine, Meconic acid, 

Lanthopine, Lactic acid. 

These various substances are derived from Opium, by more or less 
complicated processes. They have more or less narcotic properties 
akin to those of Opium itself. The action of some of these alkaloids 
is well-known, while of the action of others we are as yet ignorant. 

Morphia (used principally in the form of the sulphate) is probably 
the best understood of these. It is largely used by old-school phy- 
sicians in hypodermatic medication for the relief of pain. But we may 
make use of it as a homoeopathic remedy. In such violent diseases as 
cancer Morphia has been successfully given for one of its secondary 
symptoms, extreme susceptibility to pain ; pains are so violent as to 
threaten convulsions, or cause twitching and jerking of the limbs ; 
under these circumstances Morphia is a homoeopathic remedy. It does 
not cure, but relieves the pains, not as an opiate by stupefying the 
patient, but according to the law of Homoeopathy. 

Morphia has the property of producing tympany. This is a very 
important fact for you to bear in mind, as you may find it necessary 
to differentiate incipient peritonitis from Morphia effects. 

Codeine, another of these alkaloids, is a useful drug in the treatment 
of phthisis. It is indicated in that dry, teasing cough which anno3^s 
the patient night and day. 

Furthermore Codeiiie has caused and cured twitching of the muscles, 
especially of the eyelids. This is a very annoying symptom ; it is 
sometimes relieved by Crocus. 

Apomorphia causes and cures vomiting. Now this vomiting is not 
of the kind for which you give Ipecac., Tartar emetic, Lobelia, etc. It 
is a reflex vomiting usually from the brain. Apomorphia produces 
vomiting if injected hypodermatically, long before it can have any local 



266 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

action on the stomach. You may utilize this effect of the drug in 
vomiting of cerebral origin, and also in that annoying disease from 
which many people suffer, and for which they get little sympathy, 
seasickness. In these cases of cerebral vomiting you may also think 
of Belladonna, Glonoin and Rhus tox. 

There are several other of these alkaloids of which we have some 
provings, but nothing that has been definitely described. There are 
also numerous preparations made from Opium ; these are largely used 
in allopathic practice ; we have nothing, however, to do with them, 
except to undo the mischief they produce. The various preparations 
of Opium enter into the composition of cough-mixtures and soothing- 
syrups, used largely in popular practice. Their effects are decidedly 
pernicious, especially in children. A prominent old-school authority 
says that the use of soothing-syrup for children is decidedly reprehen- 
sible. It stunts their growth, makes them irritable and cross, and 
interferes sadly with the brain development. Nux vomica is one of 
the antidotes in cases of injury from anodyne preparations. Still bet- 
ter, perhaps, as an antidote, is Chamomilla, which is suited when 
opiates have been given for some time, and have produced their sec- 
ondary effects ; the little one is wakeful ; slight pains are unbearable. 
When this condition is present, Chamomilla is your remedy, whether 
the patient be child or adult. 

No drug is more freely abused by both allopath and homoeopath (!) 
than is the one we are studying to-day. I would that I had both 
opportunity and ability to convince the practitioner of the old school 
of medicine of the absurdity of his indiscriminate use of opiates, and 
I could hope still more earnestly to dissuade homceopathicians from 
hiding their ignorance under the anodyne effects of an occasionally 
interpolated dose of Morphine or Laudanum. The one class, ignorant 
of any other means of assuaging pains, and the other class, too lazy to 
study their cases, seek relief for their patients in anodynes. Call them 
to task for their unscientific practice and they meet you with the re- 
mark, "my duty is to relieve the sick." Let me rejoin, " At any 
cost? Must you do what you know to be wrong? " " No, but how 
do you make it wrong ? ' ' Tet me reply by a brief resume of the 
modus operandi of Opium, and then if this question is not answered I 
make no further objections to anodynes. 

In small doses, Opiit?n has primarily a transient exhilarating effect. 
It seems, however, to affect the emotional more than the intellectual 



PAPAVKRACE^. 267 

sphere. The mind feels as if floating in the air, unincumbered by 
the laws of space and gravity. The imagination has full play. If 
now the dose be increased, either in quantity or by frequent repetition, 
there follows a sleepy state. This sleep varies all the wa}^ from a 
pleasant feeling of easy drowsiness to the most profound stupor. This 
narcotic and anodyne effect of Opium is the result of the increased 
circulation of blood in the brain, brought about not only by increasing 
the amount of blood supplied to the brain but also by interfering with 
its return to the heart. Let me digress for a few moments and speak 
of the physiological explanation of sleep. Hammond has shown that 
during this state, the quantity of blood circulating in the cranial cavity 
is greatly diminished. If you give Opium to produce sleep, what do 
you do? Do you produce ansemia of the brain? No, just the reverse. 
I ask you, then, is the administration of opiates for their anodyne 
effects at all rational ? 

Returning to the effects of Opium — the face becomes deep red and 
swollen from the distension of the blood-vessels. The more profound 
the stupor, the darker red is the face. It may even become of a 
brownish hue. The pupils become contracted. The pulse is full and 
slow. Respiration is deep, and as the stupor grows in intensity it 
becomes heavier and finally stertorous. What is the meaning of this 
stertor ? It means that as the poisonous effects of Opium increase, a 
paretic and finally a paralytic condition of the muscles of the palate 
and cheeks appears. These parts, thus being thoroughly relaxed, flap 
back and forth with each respiration. The pulse is full, round and 
slow, showing you that the heart is acting with the full volume of 
blood, but not with the usual speed. As the case goes on hour after 
hour, you find a picture of complete paralysis developing. The prac- 
tical application of this I will give you when speaking of typhoid 
fever. The sphincters lose their control, so that there is involuntary 
escape of urine and faeces. The pupils now are dilated and the skin 
is bathed in cold sweat. The lower jaw drops and finally death ensues. 

In these fatal cases autopsies show the cerebral convolutions to be 
flattened, the vessels of the cerebro-spinal axis engorged with blood; 
and there is effusion of serum beneath the arachnoid and into the 
ventricles of the brain. 

These are the symptoms of acute Opium poisoning. 

Now these phenomena depend upon the action of Opium on the 
nerves. From irritation comes the first brief excitation. From the 



268 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

subsequent paralyzing action come the drowsiness, muscular relaxa- 
tion and coma. From the beginning, the cerebral vessels are sur- 
charged with blood, and this gradually increases until sopor ensues. 
Now, gentlemen, let me ask, is it rational practice to assuage pain with 
a substance which paralyzes and so relieves by taking away, not the 
disease, but thk ability to feee, the consciousness of suffering? 

What are the effects produced by the habitual use of the drug? The 
first effect is one that I have already described to you, one of dreamy 
imaginative activity of the emotional mind. I^ater, as the use of the 
drug is continued, every tissue of the body becomes affected. The 
skin grows dry and sallow and hangs in folds, the limbs emaciate, and 
the intellect becomes dulled. 

The best antidote to Opium is strong black coffee, given repeatedly 
until there is some sign of reaction. In addition to that you should 
use electricity. You should also remove any of the poison that may 
be in the stomach by means of an emetic or the stomach-pump, and 
you should force the patient to walk about to prevent stupor. 

Opium has so far been sufficiently described for you to see readily 
in what classes of disease it is indicated. 

You see the picture of Opium in typhoid fever with profound cere- 
bral congestion resulting in paralysis of the brain, dropping of the 
lower jaw and stertorous breathing. Often when Opium is called for 
in this disease, the body is bathed in a hot sweat. This sweat is not 
critical. It is a bad omen. It is a symptom of approaching death, in 
that it is a result of paralysis of the sweat glands. This symptom is 
also found under Stramonium. 

In typhoid fever with threatening paralysis of the brain, you should 
remember Lachesis, the symptoms of which I described to you w T hen 
lecturing on that drug ; also Hyoscyamus, which has the stertorous 
breathing; but there are differences, as you will learn in a future lecture. 

Opium must be considered in the treatment of apoplexy. It is 
natural to suppose that a remedy producing such fulness of the cere- 
bral blood-vessels might, in persons predisposed, readily cause their 
rupture, and the consequent symptoms of extravasation of blood into 
the cerebral substance. Opium is indicated by the color of the face, 
by the stertorous breathing, and by tetanic rigidity of the body. 
Especially is it indicated in the apoplexy of drunkards. Opium follows 
Belladonna in apoplexy. 

In apoplexy occurring in drunkards, you should think also of Baryta 
carb. and Lachesis. 



PAPAVERACE^. 269 

Arnica suits in apoplexy, when the pulse is full and strong. The 
paralysis is on the left side and there is stertorous breathing. 

Apis is called for when the coma fails to yield to Opium. 

For apoplexy with convulsions, think of Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, 
Lachesis and Opium. 

For apoplexy followed by paralysis, Arnica, Belladonna, Lachesis, 
Nux vomica and Rhus tox. 

When followed by idiocy, Helleborus. 

In apoplectic congestion with sleepiness after meals Opium should 
be compared with Nux vomica and Arnica. 

Opium is useful in ma?iia a potu or delirium tremens. Especially 
is it indicated in "old sinners;" in those whose long lives of excess 
have thoroughly destroyed their constitutions ; in those who have had 
the disease time after time. It takes but a small quantity of liquor 
to throw them again into the delirium. The face wears a constant ex- 
pression of fright or terror. . They have visions of animals springing 
up from various parts of the room. They imagine that they see 
ghosts, devils, etc., with whom they converse, though they are terri- 
fied by the subjects of their visions. If they succeed in obtaining sleep, 
it is of the stertorous character already referred to. 

There are several remedies which, if given soon enough, will enable 
you to carry your patients with delirium tremens safely through the 
attack. I have already mentioned Opium ; another is Lachesis ; espe- 
cially is this indicated when the patients have visions of snakes and 
other hideous objects; sensation in the throat as if choking; and spring- 
ing out of sleep suddenly as if from a dream. 

Another remedy is Stramoniitm, to which you will be guided by the 
violence of the symptoms. The patient starts from sleep in perfect 
horror, with visions of animals coming toward him from every corner 
of the room ; he makes efforts to escape ; his face is bright red. 

Still another remedy is Cannabis Indica, or the hashish. This is 
one of the best. It has thus far been given only in low potency. The 
symptoms which seem to characterize it are, ideas of grandeur and 
errors of perception as to space and as to time. 

In other cases we have to use Arsenicum, when there is fear of death 
and the patient will not permit himself to be left alone. 

A remedy often forgotten, but useful, nevertheless, is Calcarea ostre- 
arum. The minute the patient closes his eyes he sees visions which 
compel him to open them again in affright. 



270 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

You may use Opium in cholera infantum when the face is red or 
pale, and is associated with fatally advancing stupor ; the pupils react 
to the stimulus of light either not at all or else very sluggishly. The 
disease seems to begin by involving the brain, or such a mishap threat- 
ens during its course ; as yet there is neither diarrhoea nor vomiting ; 
the child appears as if it had been drugged. Opium administered in 
a case like this will restore the patient to consciousness. Diarrhoea 
sets in, and the disease proceeds naturally to recovery. This remedy 
may also be given when there is a lack of vitality, and the well-selected 
remedy refuses to act. The patient is either sluggish or drowsy. 
It is just as useful in these cases as are Carbo veg. t Sulphur, Valerian, 
Ambra grisea, Psoiinum, or any of the other drugs called for in defect- 
ive reaction. 

There is a remedy which I wish to give you here, but with some 
caution, because it is what has been termed a "breech-presentation," 
that is, it was used clinically before provings of it were made. That 
remedy is frerrum phos. It is called for in cholera infantum when the 
discharges from the bowels are frequent; within twenty-four hours the 
child is greatly reduced, and falls into a stupor, with red face, dilated 
pupils, rolling of the head, and soft, full-flowing pulse. We know 
that Iron has that kind of a pulse ; we know that congestion belongs. 
to all the preparations of Iron. In one of my cases with the above 
symptoms, Belladonna and Sulphur -were each given in turn, but failed. 
I then gave Ferrum phos. , and in twelve hours the child returned to 
consciousness, and is alive to-day. 

You may also use Opium in suppuration of the lungs occurring in 
those greatly addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors; the breathing 
is labored, and is attended with rattling and snoring. Cough is very 
difficult, and is attended with smothering spells ; the face becomes blue 
during the cough. 

Another affection of the lungs occurring in drunkards, namely, 
haemoptysis, calls for Opium when the chest is hot and the limbs are 
cold ; the cough is violent, and is attended with an expectoration of 
frothy mucus and blood ; the patient is drowsy with the cough. 

Antimonium tartaricum also has cough with drowsiness and gaping. 

We find Opium sometimes indicated in spasms, especially when they 
occur as the immediate result of fright or anger ; or when a nursing 
infant has a convulsion after its wet-nurse has been frightened ; the 
body is in a condition of tetanic rigidity ; opisthotonos ; the spasm is 



PAPAVERACK^. 27 1 

ushered in with a loud shriek ; there is foaming at the mouth ; the face 
becomes dark red, or even purple, and the body is often bathed in a 
hot sweat ; deep, snoring sleep follows the spasm. 

Opium causes and cures constipation ; a constipation in which there 
is inertia of the rectum and the entire intestinal tract ; there is no in- 
clination whatever for the bowels to move ; thus the bowels become 
impacted with faeces ; flatus accumulates in the upper portion of the 
intestines and presses upward against the chest. This symptom is very 
common after diseases that are debilitating or long-lasting. In such 
cases I have been in the habit of giving Opium in repeated doses until 
colicky pains are produced ; this indicates restoration of peristaltic 
action of the bowels. I then order an injection of cocoa-nut oil or 
soap and water to soften the faecal masses, when an easy evacu- 
ation of the bowels follows. The Opium stool in its complete picture 
consists of little hard, dry, black balls. This form of constipation re- 
minds us of that of Alumina, Plumbum and Bryonia. 

Bryonia has constipation with inertia of the rectum and lack of in- 
testinal secretion ; the stools are large and dry. 

Plumbum closely resembles Opium, but there is some spasmodic con- 
striction of the anus ; the stools consist of hard, black balls. 

Alumina has inertia of the rectum with hard, dry, knotty stools, 
but often attended with soft faeces. 

In tympanites or accumulation of flatus, especially in advanced 
stages of peritonitis, compare Opium with Terebinthina, Lycopodium, 
Carbo veg., Colchicum, and Raphanus. 

The characteristic symptom calling for the last-named remedy in 
tympanites is, that the patient passes flatus neither upward nor down- 
ward for days. 

Opium may be used in bladder troubles, especially in retention of 
urine. It is indicated when this retention has resulted from fright, 
and when it follows parturition. This last-named symptom I have 
twice confirmed. 

In this retention of urine after labor, compare with Opium, Hyoscy- 
amus, Causticum, and Arsenicum. 

In suppression of urine you may think of Stramo?iium, Zingiber, 
Lycopodium, and Pulsatilla. 

The power of Opium to cause shriveling of every fibre of the body 
suggests its use in marasmus in children. The patient is wrinkled and 
like a little dried-up old man ; the characteristic Opium stupor is 
present. 



272 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

When the above-named condition has been produced by Opium, 
Sulphur, Argentum nitricum, or Sarsaparilla may be used as an anti- 
dote. Muriatic acid is the remedy for the continued muscular debility 
following the use of Opium. 

We may find Opium indicated in that very dangerous condition, 
strangulation of the bowels. There are violent colicky pains and vom- 
iting of matters having a faecal odor. 

In colic it may be given when there is great tympany and pressure 
downward on the rectum and bladder ; there is a great deal of belching 
without relief. 

Compare here Nux vomica, China and Lycopodium. 

Veratrum album has colic as if the bowels were twisted; abdomen 
tense. The longer delayed is the emission of flatus, the more difficult is 
it to pass. Opium has been of service in incarcerated hernia, ileus 
and typhlitis, with complete constipation, vomiting of faecal matter or 
at least of substances of a faecal odor. 

Sometimes we find Opium useful in metrorrhagia, whether after labor 
or not. The patient is restless; the sheets feel hot to her; she is sleepy, 
but cannot sleep. 

In fevers other than typhoid, it may be given when the chill is 
accompanied by heat of the head and great drowsiness ; the body is 
burning hot, even when covered with a copious sweat ; desire to un- 
cover ; unconsciousness ; feels as if his legs belonged to some one else. 
(Compare Baptisia and Stramonium.) 

Puerperal fever sometimes calls for Opium, especially when caused 
by fright. There is over-excitement of all the senses ; even distant 
sounds annoy the patient ; the discharge from the uterus is very foetid. 
The case approaches a condition of stupor. 

In haemorrhage from the uterus, compare Belladonna, which has a 
flow of bright blood feeling hot to both physician and patient. 

Hyoscyamus also has this. But under this remedy there is a great 
deal of spasmodic jerking of the body. 

You will see from what I have said that Opium is an invaluable 
remedy for the bad effects of fright, whether that emotion produces 
convulsions or diarrhoea. 

Gelsemium, Pulsatilla, and Veratrum album, you will recall as being 
useful in diarrhoea after fright. 

For the remote consequences of fright Opium does not always suffice; 
you should then remember Natrum muriaticum, Silicea, and Phosphoric 



PAPAVERACM. 273 

acid ; the first named especially for chorea or paralytic weakness of 
this origin. 

Opium, like Bovista and Arnica, is useful for the bad effects of in- 
halation of charcoal vapors. 

In spasms of the lungs, compare Moschus and Ipecac. 

Drosera is likewise indicated in the spasmodic cough of consumption, 
coming on in the evening, and perhaps again after midnight. Every 
effort to raise a little phlegm ends in retching and vomiting. 



18 



LECTURE XXVII. 

SANGUINARIA AND CHELIDONIUM. 

Before proceeding with our study of Sanguinaria, I will say that 
there is a variety of the poppy plant which grows in Mexico called 
the Argemoyie Mexicana. It is used in Mexico in much the same man- 
ner as we use Opium. It causes cutaneous eruptions and has been 
used in the expulsion of tape-worm. The juice of the plant when col- 
lected and dried has much the appearance of gamboge. I mention 
this, not because it is a matter of importance, but as a piece of informa- 
tion that may in time prove beneficial. 

We shall now take up the study of another member of the Papaver- 
aceae, the Sanguinaria Canadensis, or blood-root. This is a plant 
which is readily recognized by the character of its root, which, when 
cut, is red, and exudes a fluid having the appearance of blood, hence 
the plant has been aptty named " blood- root." The seeds of Sangui- 
naria are somewhat narcotic. You can see a resemblance between it 
and Opium, not in the completeness of its symptomatology, but a 
family resemblance sufficient to place it by the side of Opium, yet hav- 
ing differences so great that there can be no danger of confounding 
the two drugs. In extreme narcosis from Sanguinaria we find languor 
and torpor, dilated pupils, with disordered vision and irregular pulse. 
The symptoms are not unlike those which follow poisoning with 
Stramonium. In studying the drug we may save all unnecessary 
multiplication of symptoms by attention to the following schemse : 



Compare 

with 

Sanguinaria 

Canadensis, 



Belladonna, 
Iris versicolor, 
Paullinia, 
Melilotus, 

Veratr. viride, 
Phosphorus, 
Antim. tart., 
Sulphur, 



► In headache. 



In pneumonia. 



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275 



sanguinaria 
Canadensis 
irritant to { 



Circulation 



Brain : Anxiety, irritability. 

Nose : Faint from odors. 

Ears : Sensitive to sudden sounds. 

Headaches. 

Vertigo. 

Haemorrhages. 

Climaxis. 

Fever. 

Menstruation. 

Phthisis florida. 

Local congestions. 

Dry feeling or rawness. 

Cough. 

Croup. 

Ulceration. 

Polypi. 

Diarrhoea. 

Pneumonia. 
Glands : Salivation. 
Skin : Acne, ulcers. 

Muscles: Rheumatism, myalgia, languor, 
nausea, faintness. 



Mucous membranes 



Sanguinaria in the first place is an irritant, whether taken into the 
mouth, applied to the skin, or when carried by the blood to other tis- 
sues. For the primary and most important effect of the drug, then, 
we have irritation of tissue. For instance, the brain is irritated by 
Sanguinaria. This is mentioned first because of the predominant im- 
portance of all mental symptoms, be they emotional or be they intel- 
lectual. Anxiety is almost always present with the Sanguinaria ail- 
ments. This anxiety, however, is not an isolated symptom. It appears 
qualifying the headaches, the gastric difficulties, the heart and chest 
symptoms, and in fact all the ailments in which Sa?iguinaria is appli- 
cable. Like almost all anxiety, it is accompanied by irregularities or 
disturbances in the circulation. There is also an irritability of temper 



276 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

which makes the patient morose, irritable, peevish or excitable. We 
note, too, that the ears are irritated by the drug, but as a result, pri- 
marily, of the irritating action on the circulation. There is increased 
redness of the external ear, with humming and roaring in the ears 
from increased circulation of blood through the aural structures. 
Sanguinaria also produces a hyper-excitation of the auditory nerves 
with the following symptoms as characteristic : painful sensitiveness, 
especially to sudden sounds ; sensation as if the patient were in a rail- 
road car or in some vehicle which was moving and jarring her, with 
a feeling as if all about her were talking rapidly and confusedly ; the 
patient desires to be held in order to remove this nervous vibratory 
sensation through the body. Thus you see the primary irritating 
effect on the ear reflected through the entire nervous system, producing 
these symptoms, which, by the way, are not uncommon in women 
about the time of the climaxis. Sanguinaria is equal to Glonoin in 
these cases. 

This desire to be held reminds one of Gelsemium, which has heart 
disease and chills with tremor of the whole body and desire to be held 
still, and Lachesis, which wants to be held down during the chill in in- 
termittent form. 

Next we come to the nasal symptoms. The sense of smell is usually 
increased ; hence we notice a peculiar susceptibility to odors, which 
causes the patient to feel faint. This is not an uncommon symptom 
in "rose-cold." It also belongs to hysteria, and places Sanguinaria 
by the side of Phosphorus , Ignatia, Valerian, Nux vomica and similar 
remedies. 

The disturbances in the circulation we find first exhibited in the 
vertigo. There is rush of blood to the head with this dizziness ; the 
patient feels sick and faint, as if she would fall when she attempts to 
rise from a sitting posture. 

Then, too, we have the circulatory disturbances represented in the 
sick-headache, and Sanguinaria has no equal in this affection espe- 
cially in that form which is so common in this country as to receive 
the name of "American sick-headache." The patient suffers from 
rush of blood to the head, which causes faintness and decided nausea, 
the nausea even continuing until vomiting sets in. The pains, which 
are of a violent character, begin in the occipital region, spread thence 
over the head, and settle over the right eye. They are of a sharp, 
lancinating character, and at times throbbing. At the height of the 



SANGUINARIA AND CHEUDONIUM. 277 

disease the patient can bear neither sounds nor odors. Mark the effect 
on the auditory and olfactory nerves. She can not bear any one to 
walk across the floor, for the slightest jar annoys her. As the head- 
ache reaches its acme nausea and vomiting ensue, the vomited matters 
consisting of food and bile. The patient is forced to remain quiet in 
a darkened room. Sometimes a profuse flow of urine relieves ; other- 
wise the only respite she has is when sleep comes to relieve her. 
Sometimes the pain is so violent that the patient goes out of her mind, 
or she seeks relief by pressing against her head with her hands or by 
pressing the head against the pillow. This is the Sanguinaria sick- 
headache in its completeness. Not only does the remedy palliate, but 
it cures. 

Studying Sanguinaria with its concordant remedies, you will find 
coming into your mind most prominently Belladonna as affecting the 
right side, as having throbbing pains, cerebral congestion and intoler- 
ance of light and noise. You see that the two remedies are very simi- 
lar. Practically speaking, Sanguinaria is the more useful of the two 
in the gastric form. In Belladonna, you almost always find cold feet 
with the hot head, which may not necessarily be present under San- 
guinaria. Then again, the Belladowia patient is not relieved by lying 
down, but by sitting propped up, while Sa?iguinaria has relief from 
lying down. Further, the symptom of pain coming from the occiput 
over the head, etc., is not so prominent under Belladonna as it is under 
Sanguinaria. 

Melilotus, one variety of the clover, produces a most violent cerebral 
congestion with headache, which drives the patient almost frantic. It 
really seems to the patient that the brain would burst through the fore- 
head. The throbbing pain is almost as violent as it is under Glonoin. 
In one proving of this drug, a lady had this congestive headache with 
prolapsus uteri and violent palpitation of the heart. The pain is some- 
times relieved by profuse flow of urine. 

Still another drug closely allied to Sangui?iaria is Iris versicolor. 
This drug is useful for sick-headaches, particularly when they are 
periodical in their appearance, recurring, for instance, every Sunday. 
This is because the strain of the preceding six days has been relieved 
and now the patient feels its effects and has this sick-headache. It is 
especially suited to school teachers, college professors, students, etc. 
The pains are intense and of a throbbing character and supra-orbital. 
They often affect the eyes and cause temporary blindness. At the 



278 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

height of the headache vomiting often ensues, the vomited matters 
being bitter or sour, or both. 

I wish also to mention Paullinia sorbilis. This has some little his- 
tory. A number of years ago there appeared a specific, in the form of 
pills, for sick-headache, the principal ingredient of which was this 
Paullinia. It proved itself to be an efficacious remedy. The objection 
I have to the drug is that it must be given in large doses, consequently 
I do not think that it has a true symptomatic relation to the ailment 
for which it was recommended. Its active principle is said to be 
identical with Caffeine and Theine. 

Continuing our study of the effects of Sanguinaria on the circula- 
tion, we find it sometimes indicated for haemorrhages, not very fre- 
quently it is true, yet when the symptoms call for it you should bear 
it in mind. It is especially indicated in metrorrhagia occurring at the 
climaxis. The blood is bright red, clotted and frequently offensive. 
Especially is it to be used when the metrorrhagia is accompanied by 
the form of sick-headache which I have already described, and by 
flushing of the face and flushes of heat which are incident to change 
of life in women. The face becomes scarlet. This high color passes 
off with moisture and faint, weak, sick feeling. Here then you must 
place Sanguinaria with GloJioin, Nitrite of Amy I, and Lachesis. The 
menstrual flow of Sa7iguinaria is bright red, clotted and offensive, later 
becoming dark and losing its offeusiveness. 

Still another fact which illustrates these irregularities of the circu- 
lation, is the application of Sanguinaria to phthisis florida. In detail- 
ing to you the symptoms calling for this remedy in phthisis florida, I 
will also mention the character of the cough and also the application 
of the drug in pneumonia, because the symptoms in each case are sim- 
ilar, although belonging to different diseases. You find the patient 
suffering from hectic fever. The fever usually comes at about two or 
four o'clock in the afternoon ; the cheeks have a bright circumscribed 
flush. The cough is usually dry at first, and seems to be excited by 
tickling or crawling in the larynx and upper portion of the chest, 
probably in the trachea, and perhaps in the beginning of the bronchial 
tubes. There is a great deal of burning and fulness in the upper part 
of the chest, as if it were too full of blood, which it really is. The 
patient complains of sharp stitching pains, especially about the right 
lung and in the region of the nipple. These pains are in all proba- 
bility myalgic. The affected muscles of the chest are sore. There is 



SANGUINARIA AND CHELIDONIUM. 279 

also great dyspnoea. Thus early in the disease, Sanguinaria, by calm- 
ing the circulation, by removing the congestion of the chest, by lessen- 
ing the hectic fever, will save your patient from what would end fatally 
in a few months. 

When pneumonia calls for Sanguinaria, we have, in addition to the 
symptoms already mentioned, rust-colored sputum with the cough 
(just as you find in the stage of red hepatization), a very distressing 
amount of dyspnoea, and the hands and feet burning hot, or else just 
the reverse, icy cold. Sometimes, even before the amount of hepatiz- 
ation will account for it, you have failure of the heart's action. The 
pulse becomes weak and irregular. There is a weak, faint feeling 
about the heart. The patient is faint. He is covered with sweat and 
he suffers from nausea. 

Localized congestions are frequent enough in the symptomatology 
of Sanguinaria. You have seen how it causes cerebral congestion, 
circumscribed redness of the cheeks, etc. You may also use it for a 
teasing cough compelling the patient to sit up at night. The cough 
ceases so soon as the patient passes flatus by the bowels or belches. 
Connected with this form of cold, there is a feeling as of a warm cur- 
rent running from the chest to the stomach. The disease may be trans- 
ferred from the chest to the abdomen, the whole difficulty ending in 
diarrhoea. 

Sanguinaria resembles several drugs in pneumonia. It bears a re- 
semblance to Veratrum viride in the engorgement of the lungs and in 
the intensity of the symptoms. Veratrum viride has, more marked 
than Sanguinaria, arterial excitement. As yet, hepatization has not 
taken place. Veratrum viride given then lowers the pulse, reduces 
the congestion and modifies the pneumonia. It also resembles San- 
guinaria when the engorgement is so profound as to threaten the death 
of the patient. The pulse becomes rapid and quivering, the face livid, 
and every symptom of approaching paralysis of the lungs is present. 
But when hepatization has taken place, Veratrum viride is not indi- 
cated. 

Phosphorus resembles Sanguinaria in pneumonia. Its symptoms I 
will mention when I lecture on that drug. 

Antimonium tartaricum resembles Sanguinaria when the face be- 
comes livid; the blood is surcharged with carbon; rattling cough, etc. 

Sulphur resembles Sanguinaria during the stage of resolution when 
the hepatized lung does not clear up properly, and the sputum 



280 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

becomes purulent. In these cases, either remedy is indicated, Sangui- 
naria being preferable when the expectoration is very offensive, even 
to the patient himself. 

Returning to Sanguinaria and reviewing its action on the mucous 
membranes, we find that it has a highly irritating effect, causing at first 
extreme dryness, whether it be of the conjunctiva, the mucous mem- 
brane of the mouth, nose or any other mucous surface. Alternating 
with this dryness and indicating the drug in another phase of the case, 
is rawness with burning, as though the mucous membrane were denuded 
of its epithelium. This is common enough in catarrhs. You find the 
nose sore and raw with fluent excoriating coryza. The cough is as I 
have described, and seems to depend upon this dryness or irritation of 
the mucous surfaces. 

When the laryngeal mucous membrane is affected, we have very dis- 
tressing symptoms. There is aphonia and, in addition, a feeling of 
swelling in the throat as though the patient would choke. Sanguinaria 
is indicated in laryngeal catarrh, whether it be from phthisis or from 
simple cold or exposure. 

The croup for which we may use Sanguinaria is one in which there 
may be a formation of pseudo-membrane with dryness, burning and 
swollen feeling in the throat, and metallic croupy cough which cannot 
be characterized by any other words than wheezing- whistling. It is 
too shrill to be only "wheezing," and it is too moist to be "whistling" 
alone. If it is associated with the dryness and burning, and some of 
the other catarrhal symptoms, Sanguinaria will quickly cure the entire 
affection. 

Sometimes we have ulceration of the mucous surface with the quali- 
fying symptoms already mentioned. 

Another effect on the mucous surfaces is the formation of polypi. 
These ma}' be found in the nose or in any other part of the body. 
Sanguinaria is especially useful for mucous polypi when they bleed 
profusely. When occurring in the nose, they are associated with the 
form of coryza already referred to. There is also profuse salivation, 
showing that the drug irritates the salivary glands. 

The skin is also affected under Sanguinaria. It produces acne on 
the face, particularly in women who have scanty menstruation and are 
subject to irregular distribution of blood. 

Lastly we find the drug affecting the muscles, inflaming them, and 
giving a picture of acute muscular rheumatism. The pains are erratic, 



SANGUINARIA AND CHEUDONIUM. 28 1 

sharp and stitching, with great soreness and stiffness of the muscles, 
especially those of the back and neck. Sanguinaria exhibits a special 
affinity for the right deltoid muscle. The pains are intense. The pa- 
tient is unable to raise the arm to the head. Sanguinaria holds the 
same relation to the right deltoid that Ferrum does to the left. 
So much for Sanguinaria Canadensis. 

Chklidonium Majus. 

Liver, Lungs, Heart. 
Neuralgia, Toothache. 
Chelidoni \ Eyes, Kidneys, Fistula. 

Joints, Diaphragm. 
Skin, Chills and Fever. 

~ f Antim. tart. 

Compare 1 

- - J Mercurius. 



with 

Chelidoni um 

majus, 



\ 



Kali carb. 



I Bryonia. 

[_ Lycopodium. 



I shall be brief in my remarks on Chelidonium, as we have not the time 
to treat exhaustively of the drug. It is a unique remedy, possessing 
points of similarity with its congeners, Sanguinaria and Opium, and 
also with Nux vomica, Mercurius, Phosphorus and Kali carb. The plant 
yields an acrid, yellow, bitter juice, which, when applied locally, pro- 
duces inflammation and even vesication. The principal value of Che- 
lidonium lies in its action on the liver, lungs and kidneys. The patient 
is low-spirited, inclined to weep, but knows no reason therefor ; rest- 
less, must move from place to place, with mental anguish ; headache, 
with coldness extending from the neck into the occiput ; the head is 
so heav}^ he can scarcely raise it from the pillow ; pressure in the occi- 
put toward the left ear. 

Chelidonium may be indicated in many affections of the liver, from 
a simple congestion to a positive inflammation. It produces pains in 
the right hypochondrium all the way from a simple soreness to the 
most aggravating variety of sharp stitches, which shoot from the 
liver down into the stomach, or down into the back from the posterior 
aspect of the liver. There is marked pain under the angle of the right 
shoulder-blade. That is the key-note for the drug in hepatic disease. 



282 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

In addition to this you have the usual hepatic symptoms, swelling of 
the liver, chills, fever, jaundice, yellow-coated tongue, bitter taste in 
the mouth, tongue taking the imprint of the teeth, as you find under 
Mercury, and desire or craving for milk, which exceptionally agrees. 
There is usually also a craving for acids and for sour things, as pickles 
and vinegar. The stools are characteristically profuse, bright yellow 
and diarrhoeic, or they may be clayey. These are the symptoms of 
Chelidonium, and they are very definite. Let me tell you how to apply 
them. You may use the drug in simple biliousness ; in hepatic con- 
gestion or inflammation, and also in pneumonia with bilious symptoms, 
in what has been termed bilious pneumonia. The symptoms indicat- 
ing it in the latter affection I will give you presently. 

This pain under the angle of the right scapula of Chelidonium brings 
to mind pains of a similar character found in other remedies. Cheno- 
podium has dull pain lower than the angle of the right scapula and 
nearer the spinal column. 

Ranunculus bulbosus has pain along the whole inner edge of the left 
scapula, at times extending below its inferior angle and through the 
left chest. 

Lobelia syphilitica has pain under, not below, the inner border of the 
left scapula, worse after weeping. 

Angustura has sharp cutting pain from just beneath the right scapula 
to the breast near the nipple. 

Bryonia is very similar to Chelidonium in hepatic affections. Both 
remedies have sharp stitching pains,. both have pain under the right 
shoulder blade, both have bitter taste in the mouth and yellow-coated 
tongue, and both have swelling of the liver. But Bryonia differs in its 
stool, which is either hard, dry and brown or, if loose, it is papescent 
and profuse and associated with a colic very much like that of Colo- 
cynth. Sometimes the stools have an odor of old cheese. 

Lycopodium, which bears some resemblance to Chelidonium, is easily 
differentiated, especially in the rumbling of flatus in the left hypochon- 
drium, in the sour rather than the bitter taste, in the sour vomiting, in 
the fulsomeness after partaking of small quantities of food, and in the 
character of the pains, which are dull and aching under Lycopodium, 
and sharp and lancinating under Chelidonuim. 

You ma}^ use Chelidonium in neuralgia of the face. The pains go 
from the right cheek bone into the teeth or into the eye, or the pain 
may be located in the supra-orbital nerves. This neuralgia will not 



SANGUINARIA AND CHELIDONIUM. 283 

yield to Chelidonium , however, unless 3^011 have some of the hepatic 
symptoms of the drug present. It is a neuralgia dependent on disor- 
der of the liver, and not an idiopathic prosopalgia. 

Chelidonium is useful, as I have already intimated, in bilious pneu- 
monia. It is also indicated in the capillary bronchitis of children when 
these hepatic symptoms are present, especially when it follows measles 
or whooping cough. The face in these cases is apt to be deep red. 
There is great oppression of the chest, as shown by the efforts to 
breathe and a fan-like motion of the alse nasi (a Lycopodium symptom, 
by the way), one hot and one cold foot (another Lycopodium symptom), 
and stitching pain under the right scapula. The cough is usually loose 
and rattling. The expectoration is not easily raised. 

Mercurius is sometimes indicated in bilious pneumonia. It differs 
from Chelidonium in the character of the stool more than in anything 
else. The Mercury stool is slimy and is attended with great tenesmus 
before, during and after the stool, while in Chelidonium it is quite 
free. The Mercurius expectoration is apt to be blood-streaked, and 
there are sharp pains shooting through the lower portion of the right 
lung to the back, a symptom which, however, may also be in Cheli- 
donium. 

Antimonium tartaricum has yellow skin, urine and vomit, in bilious 
pneumonia ; stinging under right false ribs, frothy yellow tenacious 
sputum, rattling in chest with suffocation, fan-like motion of alse nasi, 
great oppression, strong heart beat. 

Kali carb. is a remedy often forgotten in pneumonia. It is not in- 
dicated in the beginning, but later, when there is copious exudation 
into the lungs, with great rattling of mucus during the cough. The 
symptoms are worse toward two or three o'clock in the morning. 
The expectoration contains little globules of pus. There may even 
be cyanotic symptoms with pufhness of the upper eyelids. 



LECTURE XXVIII. 

CUCURBITACEiE. 

i . Colocynthis cucumis. 

2. Bryonia alba. 

3. Citrullus (Water-melon). The seeds are 
Cucurbitaceae. 1 diuretic. 

4. Cucurbita (Squash). 

5. Momordica balsamina. — Flatulency. 

6. Blaterium momordica. — Bowels and fever. 

To-day we begin our study of the Cucurbitacecs. This order gives 
us some six or eight drugs, and also some edible fruits. Among the 
latter are the water-melon, canteloupe, and cucumber. The seeds 
of some of these have diuretic properties, and those of the water-melon, 
pumpkin and squash have been used as a cure for worms. 

Of the medicinal substances obtained from this order we may say 
that they all act prominently on the alimentary tract. They seem to 
have in common a cathartic action. They probably act paralyzingly 
on the vaso-motor nerves of the abdomen. They produce griping 
pains, gushing watery diarrhoea. This last symptom is most promi- 
nent under Elaterium. 

Let us now enumerate these medicines. Fifth on the list is the 
Momordica balsamina ; of this we have but one characteristic symptom, 
and that is accumulation of flatus in the splenic flexure of the colon, 
precisely like Lycopodium. It is a very convenient thing to know this. 
For instance, if, during the course of a more or less chronic disease, 
this one symptom becomes very annoying, and you do not want to 
destroy the action of the drug you are giving, you simply interpolate 
a dose of Momordica, which removes the symptom and enables you to 
go on with the treatment as before. 

Elaterium, another member of the order, has been used principally, 
in our school of medicine, in a peculiar form of diarrhoea. Like all 
the CucurbitacecE ■, it acts powerfully on the alimentary tract, producing 
a sudden and enormous effusion of serum into the bowels. Thus it 
causes a watery diarrhoea, the stools flowing out very profusely. The 
characteristic symptom of the drug, and the one which will lead you 
to its selection in cholera infantum, is watery stools of an olive-green 



CUCURBITACE^. 285 

color, coming out with a gush, with cutting pains in the abdomen. 
Thus, you see, it is comparable with Croton tiglium, Podophyllum, 
Veratrum album, and remedies of that type. 

It is readily distinguished from Croton tiglium, which is adapted to 
a profuse, yellow, watery stool, which is provoked every time the pa- 
tient eats and drinks. 

Podophyllum has, as you all know, the morning aggravation to dis- 
tinguish it. 

The remaining medicines belonging to the Cucurbitacetz are the 
Citrullus, or water-melon ; the Cucurbita, or squash, the seeds of which, 
as well as those of the pumpkin, have been used for taenia ; the 
Colocynth, and the Bryonia alba; the last two being drugs of great 
importance, we shall proceed to their consideration in extenso. 

COLOCYNTHIS CUCUMIS. 

Neuralgia. 



1. Nerves. 

Cramp. 

Colocynthis. \ 2. Bowels. 

3. Urine. 

[4. Gout. 

The Colocynthis cucumis furnishes us with a gourd about the size 
of an orange with a smooth marbled green surface. When dried it 
appears of a brownish color. It is not indigenous to this country, 
but is imported from Syria and Turkey. Often, however, it is found 
in the market, peeled and dried, looking like a pithy ball, full of seeds 
and very light in weight. It is inodorous, but it has an intensely 
bitter taste. 

Like the other members of this group, Colocynth causes violent in- 
testinal irritation, first of watery evacuations and later of mucus and 
blood. The pains are atrocious; griping, cutting, etc. But this is not 
all. The drug also affects the nervous system powerfully, whence 
comes its beneficial effects in the treatment of various neuralgias. (In 
its neurotic symptoms, Colocynth is closely allied to Dioscorea villosa). 

Furthermore, this remedy so long restricted to the relief of colic 
alone, has lately wrought cures in certain deep-seated ovarian diseases, 
as ovarian tumors. Colocy?ilh acts directly on the ovaries, and also 
upon the epididymis. It is a mistake to assert, as was done formerly, 
that it can cause no inflammatory action ; for in a case of poisoning, 
the autopsy revealed freshly-glued intestines, thus showing an inflam- 
matory exudate. It is indicated in affections of the ovaries by stitching 



286 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

pains as from a needle deep in the right ovarian region, and crampy 
pains relieved by bending over or from pressure. 

Two cases of ovarian tumor have been reported as cured by Colo- 
cynth on these symptoms. 

I remember having cured a lady of ovarian colic from which she had 
suffered for three years, with Colocynth. The pains in this case were 
of a griping character and were relieved by bending double. There 
were no organic changes present. 

Now let us examine the action of Colocynth on the abdomen and 
its contents with the concomitant symptoms : persistent bitter taste ; 
violent thirst ; empty eructations ; nausea ; vomiting of a bitter fluid 
or of food ; griping pains which force him to bend double or to press 
firmly against the abdomen. This griping is the well-known key-note 
of the drug, and it is indicatory whether it be of local origin or reflex, 
whether arising from flatus, undigested food, or cold ; or whether 
resulting from violent emotions, as in what has been termed li nervous 
colic." The stools may be fluid, copious, faecal, flatulent and papes- 
cent ; or slimy and bloody and preceded by severe tenesmus ; but in 
every case there is this griping which more often precedes the stool 
and is relieved afterward, although sometimes it continues after stool. 
These evacuations are provoked by the slightest food or drink, as is 
also the pain. In some instances the griping develops into cutting, 
stabbing pains, which spread all over the abdomen and down into the 
pelvis. They are relieved by the emission of flatus or by stool. The 
pressure of flatus may incommode the bladder, relief, however, in- 
stantly following borborygmi. The urine is foetid and deposits a mu- 
cous sediment. 

We shall now compare Colocynth with some of its concordant reme- 
dies. 

In the bad effects of anger, Colocynth is closely allied to Chamomilla 
and Staphisagria, and more remotely, to Causticum. It resembles 
Chamomilla in the violence of its emotions. Both drugs may be used 
in children when violent emotions produce cramps and even bilious 
stools. Chamomilla differs from Colocynth in the violence of its con- 
gestive symptoms, hot sweat on the head, etc. The characteristic 
Chamomilla temperament also helps you to decide. 

Staphisagria is sometimes to be substituted for Colocy?ith in the 
effects of violent emotion in women and children when the violent ab- 
dominal cramps fail to yield to the latter remedy. 

In its abdominal and gastro-enteric symptoms you should compare 



CUCURBITACE^. 287 

it with Aconite, Veratrum album, Bovista, Croton tiglium, Elaterium, 
and Mercurius. 

Veratrum album has abdominal pains forcing the patient to bend 
double, but he must walk about for relief. He also has cold sweat on 
the forehead. It is especially suitable in ileus or intussusception of 
the bowels. 

The colic of Bovista finds relief from bending double and after eat- 
ing. The urine is red. 

Croton tiglium has griping pains with profuse watery diarrhoea. The 
stools are yellowish, brownish or green ir^ color and profuse, coming 
out with a gush, like water from a hydrant. They are aggravated 
after nursing or eating. 

As shown by the symptoms, Colocynth is a remedy sometimes needed 
in summer complaint and in dysentery. It differs from Croton tiglium, 
which has stools whenever the patient eats or drinks, in that the latter 
has movements which are profuse and watery, and gushing like water 
from a hydrant. Elaterium again changes the picture by producing 
olive-green stools, profuse and gushing. Croton tig., it is true, causes 
green stools, but they are a brownish green. 

Colocynth differs from Mercurius because in the former the tenesmus, 
etc., cease after stool. It differs from Nux vomica also, for although 
the pain ceases after stool in Nux, the movements are scanty and there 
is frequent ineffectual urging. 

The griping already referred to is not, in Colocy?ith, confined to the 
intestinal tract. We may confidently employ the remedy when the 
griping involves the bladder in some forms of strangury or of spasm 
of that viscus, and also in menstrual colic, whether uterine or ovarian. 
All that is requisite is that the nervous element should predominate 
over the inflammatory, with the relief from bending double and from 
firm external pressure. 

Transferring this action of the drug upon the sympathetic to the 
" voluntary system," or cerebro-spinal system, we find symptoms like 
the following : left-sided tearing crampy pains after vexation or mor- 
tified feelings ; boring, tearing pains in the head, boring stitches, 
sharp cutting pains in the eyeballs and extending thence up into the 
head ; worse at rest and on stooping, and better from firm pressure and 
from walking ; eye, on stooping, feels as if it would fall out ; profuse 
acrid tears. These symptoms suggest Colocynth as a remedy in gouty 
and bilious headaches, and also in the intense pains of iritis, ciliary 
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Here we may compare Chamomilla, Cedron, Spigelia and Prunus 
spinosa. 

Chamomilla also has left-sided tearing headache from anger, bilious- 
ness, etc., but it has more red face, hot sweat, etc. 

Cedron has periodical pains about the eyes ; it is usually, however, 
supra-orbital, and it may be of malarial origin. 

Spigelia is very similar to Colocynth. The eye feels too large ; the 
pains are stabbing, tearing and radiating ; they are aggravated by 
pressure and motion ; Colocynth rinding relief by walking in a warm 
room, and on pressure. 

Prunus spinosa has more crushing pain ; a feeling as if the parts were 
pressed asunder, or violent bursting pain shooting back to the occiput. 

Colocynth has proved useful in hip-disease, especially of the right 
side ; dull stitches during walking, must stand still ; followed by heavi- 
ness and insensibility of the affected parts; crampy pain as though the 
parts were screwed in a vise : lies on the affected side with the knee 
drawn up. 

In studying these symptoms we also see the application of the drug 
to sciatica ; pains extending down the sciatic nerve to the knee or even 
to the heel, aggravated by any motion. The attacks of pain are fol- 
lowed by numbness of the whole limb and partial paralysis. If the 
case is of long continuance, the nutrition of the limb is deficient. 
Sometimes the cramps in the leg are so severe that the patient feels as 
if the whole leg were fastened down by iron bands. The pains are 
usually worse at night. 

Gnaphalium is very similar to Colocynth in sciatica. It has intense 
neuralgic pains along the course of the sciatic nerve, alternating with 
numbness. 

In cramps of the muscles you should compare Colocynth, Nux vomica, 
Veratrum album and Cholos terrapince. I know of no remedy better 
adapted to simple cramps in the muscles than the last named in this 
list. 

In rheumatism, Colocy?ith may be useful, especially for the stiffness 
of the joints following the acute disease. 

If, however, there are concretions in the joints, you should think of 
Causticum and Guaiacum. 

Guided by its constrictive qualities, physicians have used Colocynth 
in paraphimosis. 

Colocynth is antidoted by Coffee, Camphor and Staphisagria. 



LECTURE XXIX. 

BRYONIA ALBA. 

' i. Blood. 

2. Serous Membranes. 

3. Muscles. 

4. Skin. 
Bryonia. <j a. Rash ; Measles. 

b. Scarlatina. 

c. Suppressed eruptions. 
J 5. Mucous membranes. 

^ 6. Organs. 

There are three species of Bryonia, but so nearly identical are they 
that Allen has classed them under one heading in his Encyclopaedia. 
Bryonia alba is one of the oldest remedies in the homoeopathic materia 
medica, and is one of the best proved. It grows plentifully in Eng- 
land and on the continent in Europe. The tincture is prepared from 
the roots. It is a polychrest, suitable to many kinds of disease. To 
give you all its symptoms, even all its characteristic symptoms, would 
take two or three hours of steady hard work. I will endeavor in the 
hour before us to explain the action of Bryonia so far that you may be 
able to apply the drug, and, as I have said before, supply the deficien- 
cies at leisure. 

We find Bryonia indicated first of all in changes in the blood ; in 
changes affecting its quantity, its quality and its circulation. For ex- 
ample, it is indicated in febrile conditions ; in fevers of an intermitting 
type, although not frequently ; in those of a remitting type, very 
often ; sometimes, too, in synochal fever ; and also in rheumatic, gas- 
tric, bilious, traumatic and typhoid fevers, in all of which, gastric 
symptoms are prominent. The symptoms which characterize its 
fevers are in general these : there in an increased action of the heart, 
giving rise to a frequent hard tense pulse, very much as you find under 
Aconite, There is actually an increase in the force and power of the 
heart's action. This action is augmented by any movement of the 
body, consequently the patient is anxious to keep perfectly quiet. 

Then you find that there is almost always intense headache with these 
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fevers. This is usually of a dull throbbing character or there may be 
sharp stabbing pains in the head. This is almost always associated 
with sharp pains in or over the eyes. All of these parts are exquisitely 
sensitive to the least motion. The patient will avoid moving the eyes, 
for instance, because it aggravates the pain. The least attempt to 
raise the head from the pillow causes a feeling of faintness and na sea. 
The mouth is very dry and the tongue is coated in the milder forms of 
fever as, for instance, in the synochal fever or in the light gastric type 
of fever. The coating on the tongue is white, and is especially marked 
down the middle. The edges of the tongue may be perfectly clean. 

As the fever grows in intensity, it approaches more a typhoid type. 
Bilious symptoms predominate. The white tongue becomes yellowish 
and is associated with a decidedly bitter taste in the mouth. There 
are splitting headache, tenderness over the epigastrium, with stitches, 
soreness, or tenderness in the right hypochondrium. As the typhoid 
symptoms increase, the tongue becomes more and more dry, but still 
maintains its coating. If the fever is of an intermittent type, you will 
always find the chill mixed with heat; that is, during the chill the 
head is hot, the cheeks are a deep red and there is a decided thirst, 
which is generally for large quantities of water at long intervals. In 
some cases it may be a continuous thirst. The pulse is hard, frequent^ 
and tense. The sweat is provoked by the least exertion and has either 
a sour or an oily odor. 

In typhoid fever, Bryonia is indicated in the early stages and by 
the following symptoms : there is some confusion of the mind ; the 
sensorium is depressed but there are no perversions of the senses. 
During sleep there is delirium, which is usually of a mild character. 
On closing his eyes for sleep, he thinks he sees persons who are not 
present. On opening them, he is surprised to find that he is mistaken. 

Sometimes this delirium is accompanied or preceded by irritability. 
The speech is hasty, as you find under Belladonna. As the disease in- 
creases, some little heaviness almost approaching stupor accompanies 
sleep. The patient has dreams, which have for their subject the oc- 
cupation of the day. Frequently with this delirium, the patient suf- 
fers from an agonizing headache. This is usually frontal. If the 
patient is able to describe it to you, he will tell you that his head feels 
as if it would burst. No better term than " splitting headache " could 
be used to describe it. It is congestive in its character. The face is 
usually flushed and of a deep red color. This is intensified like all 



BRYONIA AI/BA. 2QI 

the other symptoms of the drug, b}^ any motion of the head, and is 
often accompanied by nose-bleed. The epistaxis is particularly liable 
to come on at three or four o'clock in the morning, and is frequently 
preceded by a sense of fulness in the head. In very severe cases, you 
will notice that the patient puts his hand to his head as if there were 
some pain there, and his face is expressive of pain. Yet so stupid is 
he, that he makes no complaint other than that expressed by these 
automatic movements. Another symptom to be noted in these typhoid 
fevers, is the dryness of the mucous membranes, especially those of 
the mouth and stomach. This is the result of deficient secretion. In 
no case is the condition more apparent than in typhoid states. The 
mouth is dry, as I have already intimated, and yet there may be no 
thirst. If there is thirst it seems to have the character I mentioned 
in speaking of intermittent fever. The patient drinks large quantities 
but not very frequently. After drinking water or while attempting 
to sit up, the patient has a deathly nauseated feeling and sometimes 
even vomits. At other times he complains of a heavy pressure in the 
stomach, as if a stone were lying there. This symptom is no doubt 
due to the same pathological condition we found in the mucous mem- 
brane of the mouth. The secretion of gastric juice is deficient, con- 
sequently food lies undigested in the stomach. When B?yonia is called 
for the bowels are usually constipated. When they do move, the 
stools are large, hard and dry, and are either brown or black in color. 
They are expelled with difficult}' owing to the atony of the rectum. 
Sometimes in well-advanced cases of typhoid fever, you will find soft, 
mushy stools, calling for Bryonia. There is a symptom which some- 
times accompanies typhoid fever at about the end of the first week of 
the fully developed fever, and that is a form of delirium in which the 
patient expresses a continual " desire to go home." He imagines that 
he is not at home and longs to be taken there in order to be properly 
cared for. This symptom is a strong indication for Bryonia, and fre- 
quently disappears after two or three doses of the remedy. 

In these febrile conditions, it is necessary to place Bryonia in its 
proper relations with its concordant remedies. First of all Aconite. 
Aconite bears an intimate relation to Bryonia in all these types of 
fever except gastric, intermittent and typhoid fevers. Aconite has 
not in its totality any special relation to any of these, however incor- 
rectly it may be given to lessen the temperature. The symptomatology 
of Aconite is opposed in every respect to that of typhoid fever. In 



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gastric fever, it may be given in the beginning when there is the full 
pulse, hot and dry skin and restlessness, indicating that drug ; but as 
the fever advances, it is then not indicated unless there are bilious 
complications. Then it is an all-sufficient remedy. The distinctions 
that you are to make between Aconite and Bryonia are as follows: in 
the first place, they hold the relation of Aconite and Bryonia and not 
Bryonia and Aconite; that is to say, Aconite is given earlier in the case 
than is Bryonia. Aconite suits the hyperemia, the congestion or 
even the chill which precedes an inflammatory fever. Bryonia is in- 
dicated later when Aconite fails. The mental symptoms of the two 
drugs are so distinct that you ought not to confuse them. Aconite de- 
mands that the mind be excited, that the patient be restless, tossing 
about the bed, full of fears. He imagines that he is going to die. 
The Bryonia patient may suffer just as much as the one to whom you 
would give Aconite, but he is perfectly quiet. He is quiet because mo- 
tion aggravates his symptoms. Early in typhoid fever, and sometimes 
in rheumatic fever, you may have Bryonia indicated by this symptom: 
the patient is restless and tosses about the bed impelled by nervousness, 
and yet he is made worse by the motion. If there is anxiety in 
Bryoyiia it assumes more the form of apprehension ; he fears that he 
will not have the wherewithal to live. 

Still another remedy to be thought of in connection with Bryonia in 
these fevers is Belladonna, and particularly in the beginning of typhoid 
fever. Now there is really nothing in the symptomatology of Bella- 
donna which would call for it in a well-advanced case of typhoid type 
of fever. Only in the beginning could you confuse it with Bryonia. 
In the first place it has erethism. Here you distinguish it by its de- 
lirium, which is of a violent character. The patient jerks his limbs 
and starts during sleep. He springs up from sleep in affright. As 
soon as he closes his eyes, he sees all sorts of objects and people, which 
disappear as soon as the eyes are opened. Belladonna, then, has more 
cerebral erethism, and more violence in its delirium than has Bryonia. 
With the Belladonna headache there are throbbing pains, and the 
patient may be obliged to sit up rather than keep perfectly quiet in 
order to obtain relief. 

Another remedy to be compared with Bryonia is Rhus tox. This is 
often indicated in typhoid fever. You all know the historic fact that 
Hahnemann, during one of the war-epidemics of typhus, cured many 
cases with these two remedies. Since the days of Hahnemann, this 



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use of these remedies has become universal. Remember, however, 
that they are not specifics. Each epidemic may so change in character 
as to require other remedies. Rhus tox. is indicated, when there is 
marked restlessness. The patient, first lying on one side, changes to 
the other. For a few moments, he feels better in his new position. 
Then he begins to ache and back he turns again. Like Bryonia, it 
has nose-bleed, when nose-bleed relieves the patient's symptoms, and 
the headache I described to you last month as " a sensation as though 
a board were strapped tightly across the forehead." There are rheu- 
matic aching pains through the joints and muscles of the limbs. The 
tongue differs from that of Bryonia. It is brown and dry and even 
cracked, and has a red tip, also an excellent indication for Sulphur. 
With Rhus tox., there is frequently diarrhoea from the very beginning. 
Bryonia usually has constipation. 

I just referred to the symptom under Belladonna — "the patient 
sees persons and objects on closing the eyes; these disappear as soon as 
the eyes are opened." Both Calcarea ostrearum and Cinchona have this 
symptom. Under the latter remedy, however, it does not occur in 
typhoid fever, but after haemorrhage. 

Next, I wish to talk about the action of Bryonia on serous mem- 
branes. Bryonia acts powerfully on these, producing inflammation. 
Hence we are called upon to prescribe it when the meninges of the 
brain and .spinal cord, the pleurae and the peritoneum, and the 
synovial membranes are inflamed. The indications for Bryonia in 
these serous inflammations are particularly to be looked for after exu- 
dation has taken place. There are sharp stitching pains, worse from 
any motion. The fever may still be high or it may have been partially 
subdued by the remedy which preceded. 

Comparing Aconite with Bryonia once more, you will see the same 
rule applicable here as before; Bryonia is indicated after and not before 
Aconite. Take for purpose of illustration a typical case of pleurisy. 
In the beginning of the disease when fever is high you select Aco7iite, 
but just as soon as the fever commences to decrease, and effusion be- 
gins, as indicated by the friction sounds, Aconite ceases to be of any 
benefit and Bryonia comes in as an all-sufficient remedy. It is cus- 
tomary with some physicians to give Aconite for the fever and Bryonia 
for the pleuritic trouble. But this is useless. Bryonia is adapted to 
the whole case. It has not the same restlessness which demands 
Aconite. The patient is quiet and is full of pain. He lies on the 



294 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKD1CA. 

affected side. Why ? Because by the pressure thus exerted on the 
ribs, he moves the affected parts less than he would were he lying on 
the sound side. 

When the meninges of the brain are affected, Bryonia is a valuable 
drug, but here, except in some rare cases, it follows Belladonna rather 
than Aco7iite. Belladonna ceases to be the remedy in meningitis, 
whether tubercular or otherwise, when effusion within the ventricles 
or beneath the membranes commences. It then gives place to Sulphur 
in some cases, Apis in others, and Bryo7iia in still others. Bryonia is 
indicated when meningitis follows the suppression of some eruption, 
as that of scarlatina or measles. The child's face is pale, or else it is 
red and pale alternately, the tongue white. The child screams out 
suddenly as if it were in great pain, which it really is. These pains 
are of a sharp lancinating character and are especially manifested on 
moving the patient. There is marked squinting with one or both 
eyes. The bowels are usually constipated, the abdomen distended and 
the child has well-marked sensorial depression which seems to border 
on stupor. If you arouse the child and offer him drink, he takes it 
impetuously or hastily, just as under Belladonna. The latter remedy 
has more rolling of the head. 

For the sake of convenience we shall next study the catarrhs of 
Bryonia and the effects of the drug on the lung structure. We find 
Bryonia indicated in nasal catarrh when there is either great dryness of 
the mucous membrane of the nose, with hoarseness, sneezing, or more 
frequently, when the discharge is thick and yellow. It is also indicated 
when the discharge has been of the character just indicated and has 
been suddenly suppressed. As a result, there is dull throbbing head- 
ache just over the frontal sinuses. Bryonia, however, is not often in- 
dicated in catarrhs without some stomach and bowel symptoms. The 
treatment of colds is a severe test of the skill of a physician. If you 
can successfully treat them, you must understand homoeopathy well. 
They are the most difficult class of cases we have to contend with. 
There are two reasons for this. One is that the patients are constantly 
exposed, and the other is that they are not watched sufficiently closely. 
If you are given the opportunity to watch the cases carefully, so that 
you may prescribe as the indications change, you will cure promptly. 
Lachesis is also useful for suppressed coryza. But it has not so marked 
an aggravation from motion; nor has it the yellow discharge. Aconite 
should be given in cases where the suppression is due to dry cold 



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winds, and there is red face, fever, etc. China comes in with head- 
ache worse from the least draught of air and better from pressure. 

We may also use Bryonia in pneumonia. The type of the disease 
in which it is indicated is in the true croupous form. Just as we found 
Bryonia indicated in pleurisy with effusion, so is it of use in pneumonia 
after the croupous exudation has taken place. Usually when it is 
called for there is also some pleuritis, hence it is applicable to pleuro- 
pneumonia. It is not indicated in the beginning of the disease because 
the exudation does not occur in that stage. It is indicated after Aconite , 
with the following easily understood condition. The fever still con- 
tinues, but the skin is not so hot, the face so red and the patient so 
restless as when Aconite was indicated. The patient is more pacific, 
and his face and whole demeanor are expressive of anxiety. I would 
have you discriminate between this condition and that calling for 
Aconite. It is not so much the mental anxiety that Aconite pictures as 
it is an expression of pulmonary oppression. That you must remem- 
ber. The cough which under Aconite was of a dry teasing character, 
with frothy sputa, perhaps still remains troublesome, but it is looser 
and more moist. There is very little expectoration yet, but what lit- 
tle there is, is either yellowish or streaked with blood. Owing to the 
accompanying inflammation of the pleura, sharp pleuritic stitches are 
felt in the chest. They are worse on the left side. The patient com- 
plains of heavy pressure just over the sternum. The pulse is full, 
hard and tense. The urine is dark-red and scanty. 

Still another remedy that ought to be thought of along with Bry- 
onia in pneumonia is Antimonium tartaricum. It is indicated in pneu- 
monia that begins as a bronchitis and extends downward. It is espe- 
cially suited to cases that begin on the right side, and that have these 
sharp stitching pains, high fever, great oppression of the chest, as in 
Bryonia. But it is called for more in catarrhal than in croupous pneu- 
monia. Mucous rales are heard distinctly in the chest. The colds of 
Bryonia if they begin in the nose tend downward. 

Several remedies other than Bryonia have these pains in the chest- 
walls. Gaultheria has pleurodynia, with pain in the anterior medias- 
tinum. 

Ranunculus bulbosus is decidedly the best remedy for intercostal 
rheumatism; it has sharp, stitching pains, and a sore spot in the chest, 
and these are worse from any motion (even breathing), pressure, or 
change of temperature. The dyspnoea in these cases is sometimes dis- 
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296 A CUNICAIy MATERIA MBDICA. 

Arnica is sometimes of use when the sore and bruised feeling of the 
chest predominates. 

Rhus radicans is called for in pleurodynia when the pains shoot into 
the shoulder. 

Senega acts best in fat persons of lax fibre. It is useful in cold with 
stitches, soreness in the thoracic walls, sensation of tightness, and 
much mucus in the chest. There is hoarseness; the throat is so dry 
and sensitive that it hurts the patient to talk; the cough often ends 
with sneezing. 

Rumex crispus has sharp, stitching or stinging pains through the 
left lung; it is indicated more in the early stages of phthisis. When 
the patient turns the left side feels sore. 

Asclepias tuberosa has sharp stitches through the lower part of the 
left chest, worse from motion. Kali carb. has stitches irrespective of 
motion, worse 2 or 3 A. m. 

Trifolium pratense has hoarseness and choking spells at night with 
the cough. The neck is stiff; there are cramps in the sterno-cleido- 
mastoid muscles which are relieved by heat and friction. 

Actea racemosa has pleurodynia; worse on the right side, especially 
in nervous women. 

In bronchitis, Bryonia is indicated with this same pressure over the 
sternum; the dyspnoea is great; the cough is dry, and seems to start 
from the stomach. Bursting pain in the head with every cough. 
Sometimes a little tenacious blood-streaked sputum is raised. The 
cough is worse after a meal, when it may even end in vomiting. Dur- 
ing the cough the patient presses his hand against his side to relieve 
the stitching pain. The same symptoms will indicate this remedy in 
whooping cough. The child coughs immediately after a meal, vomits 
what it has eaten, then returns to the table. 

Returning now to the action of Bryonia on the serous membranes, 
we find it producing synovitis. The affected joint is pale-red and 
tense. There is, of course, effusion into the synovial sac. There are 
sharp, stitching pains, aggravated by any motion. Bryonia is indicated 
in these cases whether the synovitis be of rheumatic or traumatic 
origin. 

The nearest concordant remedy to Bryonia here is Apis, which is an 
excellent remedy for synovitis, particularly of the knee-joint. Sharp, 
lancinating, and stinging pains, and effusions into the joint, are fur- 
ther indications for the remedy. Apis seems to be preferable to 



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Bryonia when this synovitis is of scrofulous origin, or at least appears 
in a scrofulous constitution. Apis also has another kind of inflamma- 
tion, which ends in the thickening of the serous sac and of the tissues 
and cartilages about the joints, giving you the well-known white 
swelling. 

You should also remember Sulphur in these cases. This remedy 
supplements Bryonia and Apis, and urges them on when they fail to 
do their work. 

We come next to the study of Bryonia in its action on the muscular 
system. It is one of the few drugs which produce a positive inflam- 
mation of the muscular substance; consequently you expect to find 
the drug of use in muscular rheumatism. The muscles are sore to the 
touch, and at times swollen, and, as you might expect, there is aggra- 
vation of the pains from the slightest motion. Actea racemosa also 
acts on the muscular substance itself. 

Bryonia may also be indicated in articular rheumatism. We find 
that the fever is not very violent, and the pains and swelling either 
shift not at all or else very slowly. The local inflammation is violent; 
that is characteristic of Bryonia. The parts are very hot, and dark- 
or pale-red. The pulse in these cases is full and strong, and the 
tongue is either uniformly white or, more characteristically, dry and 
white down the centre. The bowels are constipated. It is needless 
for me to say that the pains are worse from motion. 

The difference between Bryonia and Rhus tox. is principally this: 
Rhus is suitable for rheumatism after exposure to wet, especially when 
one is overheated and perspiring. Then, too, the Rhus patient finds 
relief from moving about. Rhus attacks the fibrous tissues, the 
sheaths of the muscles, Bryonia the muscular tissue itself. 

The difference between Ledum and Bryonia ma}^ be described in this 
way: Ledum is useful for rheumatic or gouty inflammation of the 
great toe; instead of tending to copious effusion the effusion is scanty, 
and tends to harden into nodosities. In hot swelling of the hip and 
shoulder joints, Ledum should be remembered as more successful than 
Bryonia. 

Actea spicata has a special affinity for the smaller joints. It has this 
characteristic: the patient goes out feeling tolerably comfortable, but 
as he walks the joints ache and even swell. 

Viola odorata has a specific action on the right wrist. 

Caulophylhim is especially suited to rheumatism of the phalangeal 
and metacarpal joints, particularly in females. 



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Sabina also affects the small joints; gouty nodes; pains worse in a 
warm room. 

In Colchicum we have marked aggravation in the evening; the 
affected joints are swollen and dark red. It is especially useful in 
weak debilitated persons, or in those who, despite local rheumatic in- 
flammation, exhibit general symptoms of torpor. The stomach is 
generally affected; nausea when smelling food. The urine is scanty 
and red, and burns in passing along the urethra. The pains are of a 
tearing or jerking character, and appear as if in the periosteum. The 
pains are superficial in summer and deep in winter. In metastasis of 
rheumatism to the heart, both remedies are to be studied. 

Bryonia has great oppression under the sternum, worse from motion; 
sharp stitches in the cardiac region, pericardial effusion, with strong 
pulse. Colchicum has pericardial effusion, fulness and oppression while 
lying on the left side, compelling him to turn over. The pulse is 
small, weak, and accelerated. The Colchicum pains appear about the 
neck and shoulders, or in a small part of the body at a time, and then 
shift quickly. 

Guaiacum is useful in chronic forms of rheumatism when the joints 
have become distorted by the concretions. It is also indicated in 
pleurisy during the second stage of phthisis with muco-purulent 
sputum. 

Arctium lappa may also be compared with Bryonia in rheumatism. 
It cures soreness of the muscles, dull pains, all worse from motion; 
high-colored urine. All the provers were so weary and sleepy, they 
could not work. 

Next we shall study the alimentary canal. We have already spoken 
of Bryo?iia here so frequently that its symptoms require but a passing 
notice. There are the dryness of the mucous lining throughout, the 
white coating of the tongue, the characteristic thirst, a feeling as though 
a stone or heavy weight were lying clogged in the stomach, the hard, 
dry, brown stool, passed with difficulty owing to the hardness of the 
faecal matter, atony of the rectum, and intolerance of vegetable food. 
The symptoms are worse in summer. It seems that the Bryonia 
patient cannot tolerate the heat of the sun. 

The liver also is affected. We find it congested, or even inflamed. 
The gastric symptoms just mentioned complicate the case. The peri- 
toneum covering the liver is inflamed, consequently there are sharp 
stitches in the right hypochondrium, worse from any motion and better 



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when lying on the right side. In jaundice from duodenal catarrh, 
you may give Bryonia, especially when the trouble has been brought 
on by a fit of anger. Although the patient appears hot, he complains 
of feeling chilly. 

Chelidonium is an admirable remedy for symptoms very similar to 
those just enumerated. Sharp pains in the region of the liver, shoot- 
ing in every direction, up into the chest, down into the abdomen; 
well-marked pain under the scapula, even going through the chest like 
a rivet; and diarrhoea with either clay-colored or yellowish stools. It 
differs from Bryonia particularly in the character of the stool, and the 
peculiar pain under the scapula. 

Bryonia is also similar to Kali carb. , which is indicated in bilious 
affections when there are these sharp pains in the right hypochon- 
drium, shooting up into the chest; often there is sharp pain, coming 
from the lower lobe of the right lung. The difference between these 
pains and those of Bryonia is that these are not necessarily made worse 
by motion. 

Yucca filamentosa is an admirable remedy for biliousness, with pain 
going through the upper portion of the liver to the back. There is 
bad taste in the mouth; the stools are diarrhoeic and contain an excess 
of bile. A great deal of flatus passes by the rectum. 

Chamomilla, like Bryonia, is indicated in biliousness following anger. 
With Bryonia there is apt to be chilliness with the anger; with Cha- 
momilla the patient gets hot and sweats. 

Berberis vulgaris also has sharp stitching pains in the region of the 
liver; but the pains shoot downward from the tenth rib to the um- 
bilicus. 

The bowels, I have said, are usually constipated under Bryo?iia, but 
in some cases the reverse condition obtains. Bryonia is indicated in 
diarrhoea when the attacks are provoked by indulgence in vegetable 
foods or stewed fruits, and also by getting overheated in the summer 
time. The movements are especially worse in the morning after rising 
and beginning to move around, thus distinguishing them from those 
of Sulphur and making them similar to the stools of Natrum sulph. 
In other cases, the patient is seized with sudden griping pains, doub- 
ling him up, accompanied by copious pasty stools. Sometimes the 
stools are dark green, from admixture of bile. They have the odor of 
old cheese. 

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300 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

described to you in speaking of typhoid fever. I will merely say here 
that the patients are irritable and easily angered. This condition is 
present with the bilious symptoms, with the headache, and with the 
dyspepsia — in fact, it is characteristic of the remedy. 

The headache of Bryonia, I have also told you, is worse from any 
motion; even a movement of the eyeballs aggravates the pain. The 
pain begins in the occiput, or else in the forehead, going back into the 
occiput. It is worse when awaking in the morning, after violent fits 
of anger, and from stooping. Its exciting causes are exposure to 
heat, especially moist, hot, foggy air; taking cold; debauchery and 
rheumatism. Headache from ironing. 

The nearest remedy that we have to Bryo?iia here is Gelsemium, 
which has headache with this soreness of the eyes on moving them. 

Natrum mur. has a headache which feels like the beating of little 
hammers, with aggravation on moving the head and eyes. 

With the occipital headache of Bryonia we should also compare 
Petroleum, which has throbbing occipital headache. 

Jugla?is cathartica has occipital headache with pains of a sharp 
character. 

Carbo veg. and Nux vomica have occipital pains with bilious attacks. 

On the external head, we find Bryonia developing an oily perspira- 
tion with a sour odor. 

A similar symptom referred to the face is found under Natrum mur. 

Bryonia is a valuable remedy in diseases of the eyes, but not when 
the external coats of the eyes are affected. It is to be thought of for 
metastasis of rheumatism to the eyes. The pains are violent and shoot 
through the eyeball into the back of the head, or up toward the ver- 
ex. They are aggravated by any motion of the head or eyes. There 
is also a sensation of tension as if the eyeballs had been put on a 
stretch. Antimonium tartaricum also has metastasis of rheumatism to 
the eyes. Now you know, from what I have said, that Bryoyiia is 
indicated in inflammation of the serous membranes with effusion. 
Bryonia ought, both symptomatically and pathologically, to be a rem- 
edy in glaucoma. The tension of the eyeball is greatly increased. 
Hot tears flow from the eyes. Photophobia and diminution of vision 
are present. 

Bryonia is useful after operations on the eye when burning pains 
and vomiting follow. 

The toothache of Bryonia is of a rheumatic origin and comes from 



BRYONIA ALBA. 3OI 

cold. You will frequently find it occurring in teeth showing no signs 
of decay, which would lead to the conclusion that it is the nerve which 
is affected. More than one tooth may be involved and relief is momen- 
tarily obtained by firm pressure of the head against the pillow, or by 
the application of cold. 

Toothache in children from decayed teeth, with relief from the 
application of cold water, finds its best remedy in Coffea. 

Kreosote has neuralgia of the face with burning pains increased by 
motion and by talking, especially in nervous, irritable persons whose 
teeth decay rapidly. 

In aphthous sore mouth, Bryonia may be useful. The child seizes 
the nipple, but at once lets go and cries. When its mouth becomes 
moistened by the milk, however, it nurses well enough. We note 
here the characteristic dryness of the remedy. 

The urine of Bryonia is dark, almost brownish red, without any 
deposit. This change in its appearance is due chiefly to excess of 
urochrome. 

Bryonia has some action on the female genital organs. It is some- 
times indicated in menstrual difficulties when the flow is dark red and 
profuse, but more especially is it useful when the normal flow has 
been suppressed and we have what has been termed vicarious menstru- 
ation. 

Here you should compare Pulsatilla and Phosphorus, especially if the 
suppression of the flow produces haemoptysis or haematemesis. 

Senecio is to be thought of if the patient has cough with bloody ex- 
pectoration. 

Hamanielis, Ustilago and Millefolium come in for haematemesis. 

Bryonia is indicated in the lying-in chamber. For years I have 
been accustomed to using it for the so-called milk fever. I consider it 
indicated here more often than any other remedy because the symp- 
toms of this affection are those of Bryonia. The fever is not very 
marked, there is tension of the breast with headache, tearing in the 
limbs and the patient is weary and wants to keep still. 

In threatening mammary abscess, Bryonia is indicated when there 
are sharp stitching pains, tension of the breast, and swelling of a pale 
red color. 

In incipient mammary abscess you should compare first of all Bella- 
donna, which is useful when the symptoms are violent; areas of red- 
ness spread out in radii from the central point of the inflammation. 



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Phytolacca is an excellent remedy when from the beginning the 
breasts show a tendency to cake. Especially is Phytolacca the remedy 
if suppuration threatens. When the child nurses, pain goes from the 
nipple all over the body, streaking up and down the spine. The flow 
of milk is apt to be excessive. 

Phellandrium aquaticum is an excellent remedy when pains course 
along the milk-ducts between the acts of nursing. 

Croton tiglium is to be selected when there is pain from the nipple 
through to the back when the child nurses, as though the nipple were 
being pulled by a string. 

Bryonia should be remembered in measles. Here it is indicated 
principally by the tardy appearance of the rash. There is a hard, dry 
cough which makes the child cry. The little one doubles up as if to 
resist the tearing pain which the effort of coughing causes. There 
may be little or no expectoration. The eyes are inflamed. In other 
cases the eruption suddenly disappears and cerebral symptoms appear. 
The child is drowsy. Its face is pale and there is twitching of the 
muscles of the face, eyes and mouth. Any motion causes the child to 
scream with pain. In other cases instead of these cerebral symptoms 
you have inflammatory diseases of the chest, such as bronchitis or 
even pneumonia. 

In scarlatina, Bryonia is not often indicated, but when it is, you find 
some one or all of these symptoms to guide you. The rash has not 
that smooth character observed under Belladonna. It is interspersed 
with a miliary rash. It comes out imperfectly and the chest symp- 
toms and cerebral symptoms just mentioned are present. Now while 
all the senses are benumbed in these cases, there are no absolute hal- 
lucinations of the senses as under Belladonna; the patients do not hear 
voices talking to them as under Anacardium; they do not awaken 
from sleep clinging to those about them, as with Stramonium or 
Cuprum. 

When an eruption has been suppressed and the brain is affected in 
consequence, you may also look to Cuprum, which is the remedy when 
the symptoms are violent. The child starts up during sleep. There 
are decided perversion of the senses, and the spasms characteristic of 
Cuprum. 

Helleborus suits when the entire sensorial life is suspended and the 
child lies in a profound stupor. 

Zi7icum is to be preferred if the child is too weak to develop an 



BRYONIA ALBA. 303 

eruption. The rash comes out sparingly. The surface of the body is 
rather cool. The child lies in a stupor, gritting its teeth; it starts up 
during sleep. Dilated pupils, squinting and rolling of the eyes are 
observed, and there is marked fidgetiness of the feet. 

Ipecac, is to be thought of when the chest is affected from the reces- 
sion of the rash of measles, if there is difficulty in breathing, cough, 
etc. 

Tay'tar emetic ought to be given in preference to Bryonia when the 
disease is variola. 

Bryonia is complementary to Alumina. 

It is antidoted by Chamomilla, Nux vomica^ Pulsatilla, Rhus tox. 
and Senega. 

It antidotes Rhus tox. , Rhus venenata and Chlorine. 



LECTURE XXX. 

CONIFERS AND EUPHORBIACEiSE. 

CONIFERS. 

Abies Nigra. — Stomach. 

Sabina Juniperus. — Abortion. 

Pinus Sylvestris. — Infantile atrophy. 

( Kidneys, bladder, etc. 
I Mucous membranes. 
Terebinthina. -j Uterus. 

J Typhoid states. 
(^ Renal dropsy. 

-Compare Arsenicum, Cantharis, Copaiva, Camphor, Phosphorus. 

Pix IyiQUiDA. — Lung; Eruptions. 
Compare Anisum stellatum. 

Nervous system. 
Sycosis. 
Thuja. \ Syphilis. 
Variola. 
Marasmus. 

Compare Pulsatilla, Kali bichromicum, Spigelia, Mercurius, Nitric 
acid, Natrum sulph., Euphrasia, Staphisagria. 

The large order of Conifers or cone-bearing plants is the subject for 
our study to-day. From this order we obtain the different varieties of 
pine, hemlock, and spruce from which the various preparations of tur- 
pentine have been obtained. The principal remedies of this group 
you will see in the schedule on the board. They are Abies nigra, or 
black spruce; Sabina juniperus, one form of the juniper, from which 
the oil of savin, a well-known remedy for the production of abortion, 
has been taken; Pinus sylvestris, a variety of the pine; Terebinthina, 
or turpentine, obtained from many of the pines; Pix liquida, or pitch; 
and Thuja occidentalis, the arbor vitae or tree of life. 



CONIFER^. 305 

Abies Nigra. 

This remedy is not an important one, but I cannot forbear mention- 
ing one of its symptoms — one, too, that has been frequently confirmed. 
I refer to the symptom occurring in dyspepsia, which the patient de- 
scribes as a feeling as though he had swallowed some indigestible sub- 
stance which had stuck at the cardiac orifice of the stomach. This is 
the main symptom and the keynote of the drug. There are also pres- 
ent the low-spiritedness, the hypochondriasis, and the constipation 
incident to dyspepsia. 

Sabina Juniperus. 

I am obliged also to slight Sabina juniperus for want of time. You 
know of it as a remedy in the treatment of uterine disease, and as a 
drug to prevent impending abortion, especially at the third month. 
The symptoms indicating it here you will learn from the Professor of 
Gynaecology, Dr. Betts. I shall only say in brief that they are: pain 
which commences in the small of the back and goes around and 
through the pubes; drawing-aching pains — which are so common in 
abortion; and pains which run through from the sacrum to the pubes. 
This last symptom is very characteristic of Sabina. In addition to 
these pains there is a bright-red clotted flow of blood, increasing with 
every motion. You may also use Sabina in post-partum haemorrhage 
when the placenta is retained and the symptoms just mentioned are 
present. 

Terebinthina. 

Terebinthina, or turpentine, is a drug which has been much abused 
by old-school physicians, and has therefore been greatly neglected by 
homoeopaths. In the revulsion from the misconceptions of the old- 
school physicians, we often avoid a drug altogether. All that I have 
time to say concerning Terebi?ithi?ia is that its main action is on the 
kidneys and bladder. When you find metritis, peritonitis, pneumonia, 
hydrocephalus, typhoid fever, scarlatina, or, in fact, any serious dis- 
ease of low type, with the following renal symptoms, Terebinthina 
comes in as your remedy: dull pains in the region of the kidneys; 
burning in the kidneys; pains extending from the kidneys down 
through the ureters; burning during micturition; strangury and albu- 
minous urine. The urine is characteristically dark, cloudy and smoky- 
looking, as though it contained decomposed blood, which in fact it 
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306 A CUNICAI, MATKRIA M^DICA. 

does. It also has the odor of violets like Cantharis, Copaiva, Osmium 
and Selenium. The real pathological condition of the kidneys in these 
cases is not one of acute Bright' s disease, nor one of croupous forma- 
tion in the kidneys, but one of renal congestion, with oozing of blood 
into the pelvis of the kidney. The condition is not infrequently the 
result of living in damp dwellings. When the above urinary symp- 
toms are present, you may give Terebinthina with confidence, no mat- 
ter what the patient's disease may be. 

Other symptoms characterizing these low states are feeble heart in 
pneumonia; intense burning in the uterus in metritis with typhoidal 
symptoms; burning in peritonitis; and tympany from paresis of the 
bowels. 

Terebinthina often acts powerfully on mucous membranes. It pro- 
duces burning in the air-passages, with thin expectoration, very diffi- 
cult of detachment. It also is occasionally of use in humid asthma 
with the urinary concomitants of the drug. 

Worms have been removed by Terebinthina. The child starts and 
screams out in sleep; picks at its nose; has a choking sensation and a 
dry, hacking cough; there may even be convulsions. 

Alcohol favors the action of Terebinthina. 

PlX IylQUIDA. 

Pix liquida has but two symptoms worthy of note. One proceeds 
from its action on the lungs. You may give it with confidence in sup- 
purative processes affecting the left lung, with pain at the third left 
costal cartilage. 

Anisum stellatum has the same pain, but here it is referred to the 
right third costal cartilage. The above symptoms of Pix and Anisum 
have stood the test of experience over and over again. 

Remedies having pains in the left side of the chest, which are here 
worthy of mention, are: Myrtus commwiis (upper part), Sumbul 
(many pains), Fluoric acid, Oxalic acid, Actea rac. (under the nipple), 
Lilium tigrinum (through the heart or through the mamma to the 
back), Kali carb. } Sulphur (through to the back), Sarsaparilla (from 
the back through to the left chest), Pulsatilla nuttaliana (on the left 
side, under the arm near the back), Guaiacum (stitches at about the 
upper three ribs; purulent sputum), Theridion, Phosphorus and Silicea. 

Pix liquida also causes an eruption, especially on the dorsum of the 
hands, which cracks, itches intolerably at night, and bleeds when 
scratched. 



CONIFKR^. 307 

Thuja Occidentals. 

The remainder of the hour will be devoted to Thuja occidentalism the 
last member of this group, and we shall consider it fully. The history 
of the introduction of this drug is somewhat novel. Hahnemann re- 
ceived in his office on one occasion a patient who complained of some 
symptoms about the genital organs, which were, to say the least, sus- 
picious. There was a thick purulent discharge from the urethra, with 
burning on urinating. There were also small pimples, attended with 
itching, about the glans penis, and some swelling of the parts. Hahne- 
mann charged his patient with having contracted gonorrhoea. This 
was stoutly denied by the patient, who, by the way, was a theological 
student. However, on the principle prevailing in every court to con- 
sider a man innocent until he has been proved guilty, Hahnemann 
determined to give the young man no medicine, and directed him to 
report in three days. At the end of that time he came back well. 
Hahnemann was puzzled. He questioned the patient closely, but 
found no cause. Then the young gentleman remembered that as he 
sauntered through a garden a few days before he picked some leaves 
of the arbor vitae and chewed them. This led Hahnemann to inves- 
tigate the properties of Thuja, when he discovered that the theological 
student had told the truth. 

Do not think, however, that Thuja has no other field of usefulness 
than in sycosis, because it has several interesting actions on the sys- 
tem, especially upon the nervous system. While you must remember 
that these nervous phenomena may rest on a sycotic basis, you should 
also know that they may exist without the presence of any such taint. 
Grauvogl tells us of the ' ' hydrogenoid constitution," in which the 
poison of gonorrhoea acts most virulently. If one with this con- 
stitution contracts the disease, he is more apt to retain the con- 
stitutional taint. This constitution, we are told, may exist with- 
out any sycotic taint. In those who are afflicted with it, vaccination 
is most injurious. When you find a patient suffering from vaccination, 
the virus being pure, you may set that patient down as belonging to 
the hydrogenoid constitution. We have two antidotes to these bad 
effects of vaccination: Silicea, which suits almost any of the symptoms, 
even convulsions, and Thuja, which is especially suitable if diarrhoea 
results and the vaccine pustules are very large. It was on account of 
this last-named symptom that Boenninghausen recommended Thuja in 



308 A CUNICAIv MATERIA MEDICA. 

variola. He gave it just as soon as the vesicles began to turn into 
pustules, and he claimed to have thereby prevented scarring. 

But to return to a study of the action of Thuja on the nervous sys- 
tem. The patient exhibits a manner which is hurried and impatient. 
He talks hurriedly. His movements are unnaturally active and hur- 
ried. His temper is easily aroused. Even trifles make him angry 
and excited. Some of the gentler emotions also are awakened. For 
instance, music causes weeping and trembling of the feet. There is a 
form of insanity or mania in which you will find Thuja the only 
remedy, and that is one in which there is the fixed idea in the patient's 
mind, that he is made of some brittle substance, and he will not per- 
mit himself to be approached for fear that he will be broken. This is 
not the Antimonium crudum condition. It is not an irritability of 
mind that drives any one and every one away, and will not permit 
one's self to be even looked at, but it is a symptom that comes from 
some fixed delusion as to his bodily composition. 

Or he thinks that his body and soul are separated or that a stranger 
is by his side. 

Another singular characteristic of Thuja is one that was first met 
with in an old maid. She experienced a sensation as though a living 
child were in the abdomen. This symptom has suggested the use of 
Thuja in pseudocyesis. 

Accompanying these symptoms of the nervous system indicating 
the drug in melancholia, and other forms of insanity, we find many 
disturbances in the circulation, such as ebullitions of blood, pulsations 
all over the body, and precordial anxiety. The action of the drug on 
the nervous system is further shown in various forms of neuralgia. 
Thus it is indicated in the form of headache known as clavus, in which 
the patient has a sensation as though a nail were being driven into the 
vertex, or into one of the frontal eminences. Thuja may also be used 
in neuralgia affecting either the head or the face or both. The pains 
are of an intense stabbing character, and are well-nigh unbearable. 
If the patient sits up these pains almost drive him to distraction; they 
may even produce unconsciousness. He therefore maintains the hori- 
zontal posture. The pains seem to begin about the malar bones and 
eyes, and go back toward the head. They may be due to a suppressed 
eruption. This neuralgia reminds us of Mezereum and Spigelia, but 
we distinguish it from that of the last-named remedy by the direction 
of the symptoms; in Spigelia the pains begin in the back of the head 
and come forward. 



CONIFER^. 309 

After detailing to you these unique nervous symptoms, I pass to the 
application of the drug to sycosis. Remember that these nervous 
phenomena may or may not have a sycotic basis. Thuja is a remedy 
which tends to alter the sycotic constitution, to change the soil in 
which this poison grows. There are two elements which make up 
disease; they are the elements of the disease itself, and those of the 
constitution in which it grows. The sycotic constitution to which I 
have referred modifies every subsequent disease, and that, too, whether 
there be any urethral discharge or not. 

In gonorrhoea you may use Thuja when the discharge is thin and 
greenish, and there is scalding pain during urination. After urina- 
tion there is a sensation as if a few drops of urine ran down the 
urethra. Warts or condylomata appear on the genitals, at the anus, 
about the perineum and upon mucous surfaces. I have treated one 
case in which the wart formed on the centre of the tongue. This was 
speedily cured by Thuja. These warts may have a seedy look, or they 
may be of a cauliflower shape. Cauliflower-like excrescences are 
especially apt to grow from the cervix uteri. In other cases, these 
warts are moist and ooze a glutinous, foul-smelling fluid. Sometimes 
we find ulcers about the genitals, and these have very much the ap- 
pearance of chancroids; they have a dirty yellow base with hard 
edges. Very characteristic are such ulcers if they seem to have origi- 
nated from warts. Sometimes we note fissures, or furrows about the 
anus, on the perineum, scrotum or glans penis. These are deep and 
are covered with pus. There is sweetish-smelling sweat about the 
genital organs. The inner sides of the thighs are red and excoriated. 
The testicles are often involved, one or the other of these organs being 
drawn up in consequence of contraction of the cremaster muscle. The 
testicle is swollen and aches as if bruised. There may be balanorrhoea, 
that is, a purulent inflammation of the inner surface of the prepuce 
and of the sulcus behind the corona glandis. 

In the female organs we find the cauliflower excrescences which I 
have already mentioned; fungous growths of venereal origin about the 
genitals; and condylomata with thick green leucorrhoea, correspond- 
ing to the thin greenish-yellow gleet of the male. 

Again, if a gonorrhoea be checked by injection, by cold or by any 
other influence, constitutional symptoms may arise which call for 
Thuja. Especially is this remedy indicated if the complication be 
articular rheumatism, or prostatitis; the hair dries and splits at the 



3IO A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

ends; the scalp becomes scaly and covered with dry scurf; iritis ap- 
pears, accompanied by condylomata on the iris; the eyelids are in- 
flamed and become warty. Ozsena may be an additional complication, 
with a discharge that is thick and green. The teeth decay at the root, 
the crowns being apparently normal. Other symptoms worthy of 
mention are pustules, which have considerable resemblance to those of 
Tartar emetic; chilliness during urination; nervousness and restlessness 
during both night and day; otorrhcea; foul breath; hoarseness. 

Thuja has the singular property of softening hard tissue, tissue natur- 
ally hard, as the nails. Herein lies the explanation of the ability of 
the drug to remove warts; it softens them and causes their absorption. 

The drug has a specific action in sclerotitis. 

The cough of Thuja is worse during the day; seldom occurring at 
night. The sputum is like old cheese. 

Thuja is a remedy in scrofula and marasmus. Such cases are not 
necessarily sycotic, but they have just such constitutions as favor the 
growth of this taint. The stools are watery, gurgling, forcibly ex- 
pelled, and are daily worse after breakfast, and accompanied by much 
loud flatus; tinea ciliaris, with dry bran-like scales; irregular and im- 
perfect eyelashes; children are pot-bellied; they scream on awaking, 
and are a long time becoming fully awake. 

I propose now to devote the remaining moments of the hour to a 
consideration of the remedies similar to Thuja in the above-mentioned 
conditions. One of the nearest allies to Thuja is Pulsatilla, in that it 
has ozsena with thick greenish discharge. In gleet, also, the reme- 
dies have the same discharge, it being thicker under Pulsatilla. Then, 
too, gonorrhceal rheumatism, orchitis and prostatitis, are just as char- 
acteristic of Pulsatilla as of Thuja. 

Kali bichromicum is useful in ozsena occurring in sycotic constitu- 
tions, the discharge being yellowish or more often greenish. The nose 
feels unnaturally dry. Dark greenish plugs are hawked from the 
post-nasal space. 

Nitric acid resembles Thuja in the condylomata or warts. It is also 
of use in ulcers, when they are ragged in outline, and in enlarged ton- 
sils, whether these affections be of syphilitic or of gonorrhceal origin. 
Nitric acid also has moist fissure of the anus (which is also present, as 
you know, under Thuja), balanorrhcea and thin greenish leucorrhcea. 
Nitric acid has, however, to distinguish it from Thuja, more aching 
pains in the bones, especially in those localities devoid of muscular 
tissue covering, as along the tibia, and over the sternum and cranium. 



CONIFER^. 311 

Staphisagria suits long filiform condylomata. The system generally 
is depraved, as shown in the sallowness of the face, the dark rings 
about the eyes, the spongy gums, the yellowish- white skin, and the 
great debility. It is especially indicated when there has been previous 
mercurialization. There is generally induration of one or the other 
testicle. 

I would like to mention here Jacaranda. This is a South American 
plant that was first proved by Muir. It is an excellent remedy for 
balanorrhoea, and for red chancroid or chancroid-like sores about the 
penis. It has been proved conclusively to be a good remedy. 

Corallium rubrum is an excellent remedy for chancre-like sores that 
are very red. 

Mercurius resembles Thuja in the iritis, the balanorrhoea, the green 
urethral discharge and the rheumatism. The difference lies here: in 
Mercurius, sweating aggravates the symptoms, as does also the warmth 
of the bed. Thuja has a symptom which is not often met with, but 
which saved a life for Boenninghausen, namely, sweat upon uncovered 
parts of the body only. 

Sabina is useful for condylomata which itch and burn, especially in 
women. 

Euphrasia is called for when the condylomata are large and look 
like a cock's comb. 

Cinnabaris is an excellent remedy when there is a combination of 
syphilis and sycosis. The figwarts are apt to be fan-shaped. There 
is a great deal of itching, especially about the joints. 

The complement of Thuja in these sycotic troubles is Natrum sulph. 

Sarsaparilla is indicated when there is a sycotic eruption consisting 
of little spots scarcely raised above the skin, often scaling a little, but 
looking like the roseola of syphilis, itching intolerably, and develop- 
ing an aggravation in the spring; also when a moist eruption appears 
on the scalp, the pus from which causes inflammation of any part 
which it touches. Sycotic headache is found under Sarsaparilla. The 
pain begins in the back of the head, and comes forward and settles at 
the root of the nose, with swelling of the nose; moist eruption about 
the genitals, or between the scrotum and the thighs. 

Petroleum also has this last-named symptom; and in addition an- 
other, namely, membranous shreds about the anus. 



312 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

EUPHORBIA CE^E. 

The members of the Euphorbiacece contain an acrid principle which 
in some cases is oily in character, in others resinous; in the latter case, 
the juice escapes from the plant as a milky fluid, which dries into a 
gum. These oils or gums have two properties. If applied to the skin 
they produce redness and vesication. The vesicles fill with yellowish- 
white serum, and may even suppurate and form scabs of a honey 
color. They all act more or less intensely as purgatives, producing a 
watery diarrhoea, associated with colic, tenesmus, flatulence, burning, 
nausea and vomiting. The medicines which we derive from this order 
are Croton tiglium, Jatropha curcas, Yucca ftlame?itosa, Euphorbium 
officinarum, Euphorbia corollata, Mercurialis peremiis, Hippomane man- 
cinella and Ricinus com?nunis. 

Croton tiglium, Etc 

This remedy produces a diarrhoea with yellowish watery stool pour- 
ing out like water from a hydrant, often associated with nausea and 
vomiting. This nausea is of a very aggravating character, and is 
attended by faintness and loss of sight. Colic appears and is better 
from warm drinks. The stool returns with any effort to eat or drink. 

The nearest analogue to Croton tig. is Jatropha curcas, which pro- 
duces a perfect picture of cholera Asiatica, with great prostration and 
simultaneous vomiting and purging. The vomited matters look like 
rice-water or the white of an egg. There are also cramps in the calves 
and coldness of the body. 

The next similar drug is the Euphorbia corollata. This produces 
vomiting and purging, just like the previous remedy, with cold sweat 
all over the body. It has more markedly than the other members of 
this group a peculiar mental state — the patient wants to die. 

Cascarilla or Sweet-bark has abdominal symptoms relieved by warm 
drinks, but it seems to be useful in a different class of cases from the 
foregoing remedies. We use it when there are knotty stools covered 
with mucus, like Graphites, and associated with colic and burning just 
like the other remedies of the group. Cascarilla also has frequent 
pale red haemorrhages from the bowels. These haemorrhages do not 
consist of a simple oozing of blood, such as often follows a stool when 
haemorrhoids are present, nor is it a haemorrhage from the bowels from 
hepatic disease, but it comes from disease of the blood-vessels. 



EUPHORBIACK^. 313 

Yucca jilamentosa has a predominance of the bilious symptoms over 
the gastric and intestinal. It has frontal or temporal headaches, fre- 
quent flushing of the face, yellow or sallow face, tongue coated yellow 
or yellowish- white, and taking the imprint of the teeth. There are 
also dull aching about the centre of the liver, poor appetite, distended 
abdomen which is sensitive to the touch, colic or colicky pains, tenes- 
mus with frequent passage of flatus, and frequent watery or yellowish- 
brown stools. 

Now let us study the action of these remedies on the skin. When 
Croton tiglium is applied to the skin it produces an erythema, soon fol- 
lowed by a group of vesicles which are almost confluent, and which 
burn and itch intolerably. If the action of the drug is allowed to con- 
tinue, these vesicles form a yellowish scab much resembling that of 
milk-crust, in which disease it may be indicated, especially when the 
bowel symptoms suit. 

Hippomane mancinella was first proved by Dr. Muir. Its power of 
producing vesicles has been utilized in scarlet fever. Its symptoms 
are these: delirium; sore throat, with inability to swallow on account 
of the constriction in the throat and oesophagus; burning of the eyes, 
made worse by closing the lids. 

Yucca produces an erythematous redness of the skin. In two provers 
it produced a burning and swelling of the prepuce with redness of the 
meatus urinarius. An examination of allopathic text-books will show 
you that Yucca has been recommended for gonorrhoea. 

Euphorbium officinarum differs somewhat from the others. Like 
them, it produces an erythematous and vesicular eruption. Its chief 
value, however, arises from its action on the bones. It is used in dis- 
eases of these structures with burning pains, especially after the abuse 
of mercury. 

Ricinus communis, or Castor oil, has the effect of increasing the 
quantity of milk in nursing women. It is here similar to Urtica urens, 
which is an excellent remedy for absence of milk after confinement. 
Castor oil, when abused, is antidoted by two remedies, Bryonia and 
Nux vomica. Bryonia is useful on account of a specific relation to the 
symptoms of Ricinus, and Nux on account of its relation to drastic 
remedies in general. 



LECTURE XXXI. 



RANUNCULACE^. 



Ranunculacese. 



Aconitum napellus. 

Helleborus niger. 

Clematis erecta. 

Paeonia. 

Pulsatilla. 

Hydrastis Canadensis. 

Staphisagria. 

Actea racemosa (Cimicifuga). 

Actea spicata. 

Radix coptidis. 

Ranunculus bulbosus. 

Ranunculus sceleratus. 

Today we have on the board the Ranunculacece , an order of plants 
containing many medicines. It receives its name from the different 
varieties of the buttercup. As a whole, the order seems to be char- 
acterized by acridity, and some of its members are slightly narcotic. 
From this order we obtain Aconite , Actea racemosa, Actea spicata, Radix 
coptidis, Ranunculus bulbosus, Ranunculus sceleratus, Hepatica, Pulsa- 
tilla, Hydrastis Canadensis, Clematis erecta, Staphisagria, Helleborus 
and Pceonia. Staphisagria contains Delphinine. Hydrastis Can. when 
fresh is said to be narcotic as well as acid. It is used for its tonic 
action, and it is said to cause, when abused, symptoms like those of 
Sulphate of Quinine, such as tight feeling, buzzing and ringing in the 
ears and reduction of the pulse. The Clematis vitalba is so caustic 
that it has been used as a substitute for Cantharides. Similar proper- 
ties belong to Clematis crispi, on which the Spanish flies feed with 
avidity. The Clematis viorna whose tough shoots are made into paper, 
is also vesicant. We shall have time to study only the principal 
members of this order, and first of all let us consider Aconite. 



Aconitum Napki^us. 

Aconitum napellus is the monkshood. Aconite itself means "without 
dust." The plant has been so named from the botanical fact that it 



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grows on dry rocks, with scarcely enough earth about to enable it to 
take root. This shows the hardiness of the plant. It is called the 
monkshood because of the shape of the flowers, which turn over and 
give the appearance of a hood thrown over the head. 

Aconitum napellus contains a crystalline alkaloid called Aconitine. 
It is found in largest quantity in the root. Several other active prin- 
ciples occur with it. They are of uncertain composition and are diffi- 
cult to isolate. In fact, commercial Aconitiiie practically always contains 
some of these substances. Aconitine and its related active principles 
are found in differing proportions in many of the members of the 
order. Aconitic acid is said to occur in some of them combined with 
calcium. I have heard that some of the inhabitants of Persia dry the 
tops of the Aconitum ferox, and eat them with impunity. I cannot 
say how true this is, but it is known that this species of Acoiiite con- 
tains Pseudo-aconiti?ie , which is less toxic than true Aco7iiti?ie. It is 
also asserted (this, too, I cannot vouch for) that, in some parts of 
Switzerland, Aconite is grown in rows along the streets, and the tops 
are cut off and used as greens. Perhaps this illustrates the fact that 
plants alter their properties under domestication. 

When taken in poisonous doses, Aconite acts as a depressant to the 
cerebro-spinal nervous system. It produces a sensation of numbness 
attended with pricking and tingling in the extremities, and even com- 
plete anaesthesia. It also affects the circulatory system. After the 
first sensation of diffused warmth is experienced, there follows an in- 
tense internal heat and profuse hot sweat. At other times the skin 
becomes covered with a miliary rash which itches intensely. The 
pulse and respirations are greatly accelerated. Secondarily, the sur- 
face of the body becomes cool, with cold clammy sweat, the pulse 
grows feeble, and death ends the scene. 

Aconite does not at first impair the intellect and the emotions. In its 
action on the nerves it thus differs from Cocculus Zndicus, which early 
disturbs consciousness. This drug, moreover, produces a complete 
motor and not sensory paralysis. It differs also from Geisemium, 
Coninm and Nux vomica, which early destroy motor rather than sen- 
sory activity. As regards its symptoms of collapse, they resemble 
those of Camphor and Veratrum album. But only Veratrum has the 
characteristic purging and vomiting, with cold sweat on the forehead. 
Both Aconite and Nux vomica cause tetanic convulsions, but they 
are only partial in Aconite, and are accompanied by great muscular 
weakness. 



316 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Aconite produces two different sets of symptoms, entirely distinct in 
their character, and as separate as though the drug were composed of 
two substances, each developing its own symptoms. The second set 
of symptoms, that which is most thoroughly known, is the tendency 
of Aconite to develop fever and inflammation. This it does through 
its action on the sympathetic nervous system. We find it indicated 
in genuine inflammatory fever of the type called synochal or sthenic 
fever. These terms apply to a fever which has about it no quality of 
weakness or asthenia. The symptoms of the fevers calling for Aconite 
are these: there are usually dry heat of the skin, and full, hard, 
bounding pulse. This fever is always associated with anxiety. The 
mental symptoms and those which are local, Hahnemann has told us, 
are the true guiding symptoms in the selection of Aconite. It cannot 
be the remedy unless there are present anxiety, restlessness and fear 
of death. The sweat which follows the fever is usually critical, and 
gives relief to all the symptoms; it is profuse, warm or even hot. It 
has been proved that Aco7iite does not produce any alteration in the 
quality of the blood; hence, you cannot expect it to be indicated in 
any form of fever in which there is a poison in the blood, destroying 
that fluid or impairing its corpuscles, altering its plasma, or in any 
way changing its quality. The type of the Aconite fever is sthenic 
and continuous, and not intermittent or remittent. It has no symp- 
tom in its pathogenesis which points to intermittency. Beginning 
with the initial chill or chills, the dry heat follows and continues until 
sweat brings relief. Then the fever is over so far as Aconite is con- 
cerned. It has no typical return of these febrile attacks. Hence, 
you cannot give Aconite in intermittent fever. Then, again, it must 
be borne in mind that sometimes the fever is not the disease itself, but 
a symptom which is necessary for the proper development of the dis- 
ease. You should no more attempt to remove this fever by the ad- 
ministration of Acoyiite than you would attempt to remove a single 
symptom in any other disease. Hence when fever is only a symptom, 
Aconite should not be given to control it. Take scarlatina, for instance. 
The fever here may run high, the skin may be hot and dry, and the 
pulse hard. Superficially, Aconite appears to be indicated, yet you 
know, with the other symptoms present, backache, vomiting, sore- 
throat and the existence of other cases of the disease in the neighbor- 
hood, that scarlatina is developing. You know, by removing this 
fever, you take away a symptom which is necessary for the proper 



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development of the rash belonging to the disease. Therefore, Aconite is 
rarely to be thought of in scarlatina. There may be exceptional cases, 
when the fever is disproportionately severe and the characteristic men- 
tal symptoms are present, in which Aconite may be administered, but 
nine cases out of ten would only be spoiled by its administration. 

Again, a mistake is made in giving Aconite in typhoid types of fever 
to diminish the pulse and control the temperature. Aconite has no 
relation whatever to typhoid fever. It is here given from mere symp- 
tom practice and not through any knowledge of pathology and symp- 
tomatology. Let me beg of you not to commence this practice; it will 
only lead you to alternation. 

In traumatic or inflammatory fevers, Aconite must give way to other 
remedies unless this restlessness or anxiety is present. One of these 
remedies is Bryonia, which has full, hard pulse, increased action of the 
heart, dry skin and aggravation of all the symptoms by motion. The 
patient lies perfectly quiet. He is not at all restless. 

It is important that you distinguish between Aconite, Gelsemium and 
Apis mellifica in febrile states. I will therefore give you in detail the 
symptoms and conditions which make the selection of one or the other 
of these remedies certain. If I repeat what has already been said, the 
repetition will only serve to impress the distinction between these 
remedies more firmly on your minds. 

Aconite typifies the synochal fever; Gelsemium the remittent or inter- 
mittent; Apis the intermittent or typhoid. Aconite causes decided 
chill, followed by dry, hot skin and full, hard, bounding pulse, fol- 
lowed later by a warm, profuse, critical sweat, with relief. Gelsemium 
causes partial chill, beginning in the hands or running up and down the 
spine, followed by general heat, most decided about the head and face. 
Sweat is gradual and moderate, but always gives relief. Apis causes 
a chill, which is followed by burning heat all over, or heat in some 
places and coolness in others. The heat is felt particularly in the ab- 
domen. The skin is hot and dry, or alternately dry and moist. 
Sweat is absent or breaks out only in spells, soon drying off. 

Under Aconite the pulse is, as stated, full, hard and bounding. Under 
Gelsemiu??i it is full and flowing, but not hard — the so-called " water- 
hammer pulse." Under Apis it is accelerated, full and strong, or 
fluttering, wiry and frequent. Aconite presupposes that the blood is 
not qualitatively altered. Gelsemium admits of any change which may 
favor depression. Apis tends towards toxaemia, with a typhoid type. 



318 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

Aconite, therefore, is the remedy only when the fever is sthenic, 
such as arises from exposure to dry, cold winds; from exposure after 
overheating; from cooling suddenly when warm and sweating, etc. 
In bilious fever it is indicated in the early stages when the fever is 
sthenic, especially because it acts on the liver. It is also the remedy 
in inflammatory fever, whether traumatic or not, the type agreeing; 
it is particularly applicable to full-blooded, robust individuals, who 
readily suffer from sudden active congestions. It bears no relation to 
the intermitting type of fever, and, when given during such a fever, 
acts only by subduing the heart's action, and never curatively, hence 
never homceopathically. Neither does it hold any relation to typhoid 
fever. Gelsemium is the remedy when the fever develops under cir- 
cumstances which favor a paresis of motor nerves of both voluntary 
and involuntary muscles. It corresponds to that stage in which the 
blood-vessels are dilated and full, but lack the firmness and resistance 
of a fully developed sthenic inflammation. Such a form of fever is 
accompanied by languor, muscular weakness, desire for absolute rest, 
and drowsiness. Under such conditions congestions might still be 
arterial, as under Aconite, but they exhibit a passivity which is 
sufficiently characteristic. The pulse is full, flowing, but not hard. 
So Gelsemium may be indicated in bilious fevers, the liver being pas- 
sively congested. Again, it applies in typhoid forms, but never after 
the languor and drowsiness belonging to relaxation, and consequent 
passive congestion of the brain, pass into great prostration and stupor. 

Apis has an apparent resemblance to the sthenic fever of Aconite in 
its hot skin, strong pulse, etc., and this is especially so in the begin- 
ning of erysipelatous inflammations, or, still more, in inflammation of 
serous or synovial membranes. But the tendency of Apis is toward 
typhoid or toward effusions; Aconite never develops either. Thus 
Aconite may suit the fever attending the initiation of a meningitis, 
pleuritis or synovitis; but its power ceases when the cri cephalique, 
the dyspnoea and dull percussion note, or the puffy, doughy swelling 
about the joint, announce the appearance of effusion. In its inter- 
mittent form of fever, Apis bears no resemblance to either Aconite or 
Gelsemium. Even in a rheumatic type, in which Aconite and Apis 
both appear, the resemblance is only superficial; for Apis either de- 
velops an erysipelatous inflammation, or causes burning-stinging pain 
and an exquisite soreness, all referable to the blood-vessels. 

In its lower forms Apis deserts Aconite and completely supersedes 



RANUNCULACK^. 319 

Gelsemium. It is indicated in genuine scarlatina, in diphtheria and in 
typhoid fever. There is a tendency to defibrination of the blood, and 
lastly to decomposition of the fluids. In such cases the anxious rest- 
lessness of Aconite and the irritability or drowsiness of Gelsemium are 
replaced by a fidgety restlessness and stupefaction. The excitement 
and delirium of Aconite and the semi-conscious muttering of Gelsemium 
are changed into low muttering delirium and unconciousness. Ar- 
ranging the respective symptoms according to the requirements of the 
Organon, we have each remedy characterized as follows: Aco?iite y 
anguish; despair; restless tossing about during the fever; fears he will 
die; throws off the clothes; pulse full, hard, bounding; skin hot, dry; 
all symptoms end in copious sweat. Gelse??iium, irritable; sensitive; 
children sometimes wakeful; nervous; even threatened with convul- 
sions; or drowsy; eyelids heavy; look as if intoxicated; want to remain 
perfectly quiet. Chill up and down the back, followed by fever with 
increased drowsiness; pulse full, flowing. Sweat moderate, gradual, 
but giving relief. Apis, fidgety restlessness; wants to sleep, but so. 
nervous, cannot; or low, muttering delirium; sopor. Chill begins in 
the knees or abdomen at three p. m.; heat, with dry skin or occasional 
transient spells of sweating; desire to uncover; great oppression of the 
chest; skin hot in some places and cool in others. Pulse accelerated 
and strong; or, as debility shows itself, wiry and frequent, intermit- 
tent, or imperceptible. 

Belladonna comes in as another concordant remedy to Aconite. This 
drug, as we shall see in the future, does not act primarily on the vaso- 
motor nerves or sympathetic ganglia; hence it does not control the 
calibre of the blood-vessels. It acts primarily on the cerebro-spinal 
nervous system, and we therefore find it indicated in fevers which be- 
gin with symptoms of the brain and spinal cord, or in fevers which 
have commenced with the Aconite type, but have, by extension, in- 
volved the brain. Thus we often find Belladomia following Aconite 
well. Remember that Belladonna requires the presence of brain 
symptoms, such as starting from sleep, throbbing headache, hot head 
and cold body and extremities. 

Veratrum viride takes the place of Aconite in fever marking the 
onset of pneumonia, when there is great arterial excitement and en- 
gorgement, as indicated by full rapid pulse; labored and difficult 
breathing; or later, nausea on rising, faintness, slow pulse and cold- 
ness. 



320 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

When synochal fever fails to yield to Aconite, the best remedy is 
Sulphur. The symptoms that will lead you to the selection of this 
remedy are these: despite the administration of Aco?iite, the dry heat 
persists; either no perspiration shows itself, or, if any, it is simply 
transient. The patient, at first sleepless and restless, becomes drowsy 
and answers questions slowly or permits an interval to elapse between 
your question and his reply, as if not fully comprehending. The 
tongue becomes dry and the speech a little thick. The patient gives 
evidence of falling into a typhoid state owing to the continued ex- 
haustion from this heat. 

Ferrum phosphoricum, of which I have already spoken more than 
once, should be distinguished from Aconite. It acts upon the blood- 
vessels, producing a sort of semi-paretic state, in which they become 
dilated as in the second stage of inflammation. The pulse is full and 
rather soft; not hard or tense, as with Aconite. It is indicated in con- 
gestions of any part of the body when the discharges from that part 
are blood-streaked. This may be applied to dysentery; to haemoptysis, 
or to secondary pneumonia. 

Arsenicum album, like Aconite, causes intense fever, with anxiety, 
restlessness, and fear of death; but the fever and inflammation of 
Arsenic are such as belong to intense local disease, to inflammation 
progressing to the destruction of the part, to fever of a typhoid type 
with putrid discharges, etc. 

Aconite may be used in inflammatory affections of the brain. You 
must, however, distinguish between an idiopathic cerebral inflamma- 
tion and one arising from deep-seated disease. Aconite can have but 
little influence over tuberculous meningitis. But in meningitis or 
cerebral congestion from lying with the head exposed to the direct 
rays of the sun, especially when asleep, it is the best remedy, being 
superior here to either Glonoi?i or Belladonna. But Glo?win and Bella- 
donna are preferable in sunstroke from exposure under ordinary con- 
ditions. Aconite may further be indicated in sunstroke when the great 
heat has had a paralyzing effect on the circulation. At first the heart 
works harder. It then begins to lose its force and beat from 120 to 
130 beats per minute. 

Amy I nitrite causes a similar picture. The face is flushed; the eyes 
protruding; there are roaring in the ears, vaso-motor paralysis and 
paralysis of the heart secondary to reduced pressure in the capillaries. 
Aconite may also be used when cerebral congestion results from a fit of 
anger. 



RANUNCULACE^. 32 1 

You may use Aconite in affections of the eyes. It is of service 
in conjunctivitis following surgical operations, or resulting from a 
foreign body in the eye. It is also indicated in inflammatory affec- 
tions of the eyes, arising from exposure to dry cold winds. There is 
a great deal of heat, dryness and burning in the eye. The eye feels 
as if full of sand, and is exceedingly sensitive. The pains are so in- 
tense that the patient wishes to die; he declares that he cannot stand 
them. The eye-ball feels as if forced out of the orbit, and aches; this 
aching is worse when the affected part is moved or touched. Photo- 
phobia is intense. The pupils are contracted, and there is a blue circle 
around the cornea, and violent aching in the eye-balls as in episcleritis. 
Kven glaucoma may demand Aconite when, in addition to the symp- 
toms above enumerated, there are pains extending down the face, as 
in tic douloureux, especially after exposure to intense cold or to cold 
winds or in rheumatic patients. If, however, Aconite does not relieve 
promptly, you must resort to other measures at once, as this disease 
may destroy sight in an incredibly short time. 

Sulphur is indicated in conjunctivitis from irritation of foreign 
bodies when Aconite fails. 

Spigelia has many pains similar to those of Aconite, especially in the 
left eye; but its inflammation is less general than in the case of 
Aconite. 

You will recall that I said Aconite had two distinct types of action. 
We have considered the second and better known type; let us now 
study the other, which is very different from the former. The symp- 
toms of this type belong more to the cerebro-spinal nervous system. 
First, we shall speak of the symptoms of the mind itself. We find 
Aconite useful for mental disease or hysteria when there is particular 
aversion to excitement, especially to busy streets. The patient dare 
not cross these streets because of fear that something will happen to 
him. This symptom is perfectly normal under some circumstances, 
but when extreme, denotes over-excitement of the brain, common 
enough in hysterical patients. They are anxious. They show an in- 
tolerance of music. They can bear no sounds, so sensitive are the 
ears. They imagine that some part of the body is deformed, e.g., a 
limb displaced, lips too thick, or features distorted. They imagine 
that they do all their thinking from the stomach. Sometimes such 
patients, during attacks of illness, have "spells" in which they pre- 
dict the hour of death. You may note this symptom in puerperal 
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32 2 A CUNICAL MATERIA M^DICA. 

fever. Argentum nitricum and Coffea also have the symptom, predic- 
tion of the hour of death, the latter especially in child-bed. 

Furthermore, Aconite causes paralysis; a paralysis which may easily 
he remembered from two or three subjective symptoms; paralysis ac- 
companied by coldness, numbness and tingling. Unless there is 
tingling in the affected part, we seldom find Aconite indicated. Even 
paralysis of both legs — paraplegia — may yield to Aconite with this 
characteristic coldness of the limbs and tingling. We may also use 
Aconite in various forms of local palsies, as facial paralysis, when asso- 
ciated with the above-mentioned symptoms, and when traceable to ex- 
posure to dry cold winds. But this paralysis is never of organic 
origin. 

Sulphur is the main antidote when paralysis results from overdoses 
of Aconite. 

Cannabis Indica and Staphisagria should be remembered in paralysis, 
with tingling in the affected parts; Rhus to x., Sulphur and Causticum 
are preferable later, especially in paralysis from cold. 

The neuralgia for which Aconite is the remedy, is caused by expo- 
sure to dry cold winds. Especially is it indicated when there is vio- 
lent congestion of the affected part, which is usually the face. The 
face will be red and swollen. The pains drive the patient almost to 
despair. There is usually tingling in the affected part. You may 
here compare Spigelia, which is indispensable in left-sided prosopalgia, 
with severe burning, sticking pains. The patient exhibits intense ex- 
citement and great intolerance of the pains. 

Colchicum is likewise indicated in left-sided prosopalgia. The pains 
are associated with a paralytic weakness of the muscles, but lack the 
severity of those of Spigelia, and the excitement and intolerance of 
pain which characterizes that remedy is wanting under Colchicum. 

Amyl nitrite may be needed rather than Aconite in prosopalgia with 
much local congestion. 

Aconite is a very important remedy in the treatment of affections of 
the heart. The symptoms indicating it in these cases are numerous 
and important — necessarily so, since Aconite disturbs the blood-flow 
so markedly, and in addition exerts a special action on the heart and 
its nerves. There are congestions to both heart and lungs, palpita- 
tion with anxiety, cardiac oppression, and even syncope. The palpi- 
tation is worse when walking. Lancinating stitches occur and prevent 
the patient from assuming an erect posture or taking a deep inspiration. 



RANUNCULACE^E. 323 

Attacks of intense pain extend from the heart down the left arm, and 
are associated with numbness and tingling in the fingers. - 

In hypertrophy of the heart, Aconite is indicated by this numbness 
and tingling in the fingers. It is in uncomplicated hypertrophy of the 
heart only that jqm should give this remedy. In hypertrophy from 
valvular disease it may do great harm. You should here compare 
Aconite with Arnica, Aurum met., Rhus tox., and Cactus grandifloms. 
Kahnia and Rhus tox. also have numbness and tingling in the left arm 
with heart disease. 

Aconite may be used in the first stage of pneumonia when the fever 
is high and has been preceded by a chill. Symptoms of engorgement 
of the lungs are present. The cough is usually hard and dr}^ and 
rather painful. The expectoration is serous or water}^, and a little 
blood-streaked, but never thick and blood-streaked. The patient is 
necessarily full of anxiety. 

Veratrum viride, as already indicated, competes with Aconite in the 
incipiency of pneumonia. It acts admirably when the pneumonic en- 
gorgement is severe, with violent excitement of the heart, as indicated 
by rapid full pulse, nausea, faintuess on rising, tongue red down the 
centre. 

B/youia comes in to take the place of Aconite especially when hepa- 
tization has commenced. The cough is still hard and painful, and is 
associated with thicker expectoration. The anguish is now traceable 
to oppression of breathing and not to the fever; the patient prefers to 
lie still rather than to toss about. 

Aconite may also be indicated in pleurisy, in the very beginning, be- 
fore there is any exudation; there are sharp stitches on either side of 
the chest, with chills followed by febrile action. Aconite is to be 
thought of here particularly when the trouble has arisen from a 
checked perspiration or confinement from the fresh air. 

In croup you should give Aconite when the trouble has arisen from 
exposure to dry cold northwest winds. The patient is aroused from 
sleep with long suffocating attacks. The cough is of a hard, dry, 
barking character, and may be heard all over the house. There are 
great difficulty of breathing, anxiety, and high fever. 

Spongia is to be used when the breathing becomes " sawing." The 
cough is still barking, harsh, and rasping. It is especially indicated 
in light-complexioned blue-eyed children, when the trouble is worse 
before midnight. 



324 A CI.INICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

Hepar should be given when the cough is worse toward morning,, 
and on uncovering, and is associated with rattling of mucus. 

Sambiicus is called for when there is spasm of the glottis. The 
breathing is of a wheezing, crowing character, and is worse after mid- 
night and from lying with the head low. 

In haemoptysis calling for Aconite the blood is bright red. The 
trouble is always associated with anxiety, and fever is invariably 
present. In haemoptysis, you may compare with Aconite the follow- 
ing remedies: 

Millefolium, which has haemoptysis, with profuse flow of bright red 
blood, but without fever. 

Ledum for haemoptysis of drunkards or persons of a rheumatic con- 
stitution. The blood is bright red and foamy. 

Cactus grandiflorus for haemoptysis with strong throbbing of the 
heart and a sensation of constriction, as of a band about the chest. It 
has, however, less anxiety and less fever than has Aconite. 

Aconite is frequently of use in abdominal diseases, especially if they 
be inflammatory. You may use it in gastritis or gastric catarrh,, 
when the trouble has been caused by exposure, by the checking of an 
acute eruption, or by sudden chilling of the stomach from drinking 
ice water. There is pressure in the stomach as if a cold stone lay 
there, persisting even after repeated vomiting. Compare also Colchi- 
cum, Arsenicum, Elaps, etc. You may also give Aconite in inflamma- 
tory colic when the pains force the patient to bend double, yet are not 
relieved by this or any other position. This symptom is invaluable in 
the beginning of inflammatory processes within the abdomen, and also 
in some cases of ovarian dysmenorrhcea. Colocynth may be compared 
here. This drug lacks the inflammation, however, and finds relief in 
bending double and from pressure. 

Aconite may be used in dysentery, especially if the disease occurs in 
the autumn, when warm days are followed by cold nights; the stools 
are scanty, bloody and slimy, with much tenesmus. In this disease, 
Aconite is followed very well by Mercurius. 

The diarrhoea of Aconite is of inflammatory origin. It usually ap- 
pears in summer, as the result of indulgence in cold drinks or from 
checked perspiration. • The stools are watery, slimy and bloody. 

Cholera infantum calls for Aconite when the stools look like chopped 
spinach, and the inflammatory symptoms already mentioned are 
present. 



RANUNCULACE^. 325 

You should also remember Aconite in incarcerated hernia, when in- 
flammation has started in the strangulated bowel, with burning pain 
in the affected part. There are also vomiting of bile, great anxiety 
and cold sweat. 

In incipient nephritis, whether true Bright' s disease or not, Aconite 
has relieved when the patient complains of sharp cutting pains going 
in a circle from the renal region around to the abdomen over each 
ilium. 

Coming now to the genital organs, we find Aconite sometimes indi- 
cated in dysmenorrhea supposed to result from thickening of the 
peritoneum over the ovaries, and in suppression of the menses, due to 
anger or fright. The characteristic colic which I described a few 
minutes ago is present. 

During pregnancy, Aconite may be administered for certain mental 
symptoms, such as fear of death, excitable temperament, etc. It may 
also be used for impending abortion caused by fright or anger. 

During labor itself it may be given when the pains are unnatural^ 
violent, rapid and frequent. The patient complains that she cannot 
breathe; that she cannot bear the pains. She is restless and anxious, 
and the body is covered with a hot sweat. 

In the so-called "milk-fever," Aconite is to be given when the 
mammary glands are hot and swollen, and the skin hot and dry. 
These symptoms are associated with restlessness and anxiety. 

Suppression of the lochia is an indication for Aconite, when the 
trouble is caused by exposure or by some violent emotion, provided 
high fever, thirst and anxiety are present. The mammae are lax, and 
the abdomen is distended and sensitive to touch. 

Aconite is not often indicated in puerperal fevers because they are 
generally of septic origin, but for one form of child-bed fever it is the 
only remedy capable of subduing the whole affair within a few hours. 
The nurse, perhaps, has carelessly exposed the patient after a hard 
labor, or she has bathed her with too cold water, or has thoughtlessly 
changed her clothing without the necessary precautions, and the fol- 
lowing symptoms result. High fever; thirst; eyes glaring and wild; 
sharp, anxious expression; abdomen distended and sensitive to touch; 
mammae lax and without milk. When you have this symptom-pic- 
ture, you may confidently give Aconite. 

While Aconite is not called for in scarlatina, still it may be used dur- 
ing that disease, after the stage of desquamation, when the child 



326 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

catches cold and acute Bright's disease results. The child starts up 
from sleep in perfect agony, with cold sweat on the forehead and with 
cold limbs. Dropsy is also present. 

In measles Aconite is called for early in the case, where there are 
high fever; redness of the conjunctivae; dry, barking cough; restless- 
ness; and itching, burning of the skin. It precedes Pulsatilla, and 
may be relied upon so long as the high fever lasts. The rash is rough 
and miliary. 

Gelsemium differs in that it causes more drowsiness and desire to re- 
main quiet. 

In acute coryza you will find Aconite indicated when the nasal 
mucous membrane is dry and hot, and when there is most violent 
throbbing headache, better in the open air. Or, the coryza may be 
fluent and hot, with frequent sneezing. The muscles all over the 
body feel sore, so that sneezing forces him to support his chest. 
There are fever, restlessness and the accompanying symptoms. All 
these are provoked — not by damp weather, and not, as some teach, by 
exposure to any sort of atmosphere capable of producing cold, but by 
cold, dry winds, or checked sweat. 

You may compare Nux vomica in colds caused by cold weather. 
The nose is stuffed and dry, and the throat feels rough as if scraped:. 

Belladonna is to be given if the head is intensely hot, the throat red 
and the tonsils swollen. 

China is useful if there is headache from suppressed coryza, with 
pains worse in the open air, instead of better, as under Aco?iite. 

In skin diseases, Aconite is sometimes indicated. It is not a remedy 
for scarlatina, but you will sometimes find it useful in so-called scarlet- 
rash, with high fever, anxiety and other appropriate symptoms. 

Sulphur is the proper remedy when Acoyiite has been abused. 



LECTURE XXXII. 

ACTEA RACEMOSA, RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS AND 
RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS. 

ACTEA RACEMOSA. 

We have in the homoeopathic materia medica two varieties of the 
Actea, namely Actea racemosa y Cimicifuga and Adea spicata. The last- 
named of these may be dismissed in a very few words. It acts upon 
the joints, especially upon the smaller joints, as those of the hands and 
feet. It is useful in rheumatism affecting these parts, especially if 
the hands and wrists are involved. 

Actea racemosa acts upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system, and 
especially on the motor nerves It seems to have a decided influence 
over the nerves distributed to muscles, producing a perfect picture of 
myalgia. 

Actea racemosa is also valuable by reason of its reflex nervous symp- 
toms. It has neuralgia of any part of the body as a reflex symptom 
from uterine or ovarian disease. One of its most important symptoms 
arising from this cause is a sensation of heat on the top of the head 
just behind the centre. Other symptoms which you may note about 
the head are feeling as if the top of the head would fly off, sharp lan- 
cinating and neuralgiform pains in and over the eyes, and supra- 
orbital pains shooting up to the top of the head. These symptoms in- 
dicate Acfea racemosa in some of the diseases peculiar to women and in 
diseases of the eye proper. In any disease of the eye, when pains of 
the above-named character are present, Actea is one of the first 
remedies to be considered. 

Spigelia has similar pains. Under this remedy the neuralgia comes 
and goes with the sun; that is, it reaches its height at noon and sub- 
sides in the evening. The Actea pain is worse at night rather than 
during the day. The Spigelia pain begins in the back of the head and 
comes forward, settling over one or the other eye. This remedy also 
has a sensation as if the eye-ball were enormously large; but when 
this latter symptom is traceable to uterine displacement, Actea is pre- 
ferable. 



328 A CIvINICAIv MATERIA MKDICA. 

Cedron is an invaluable remedy in neuralgiform affections when the 
pains involve the supra-orbital nerve and the eye, and are worse on 
the left side. The eye burns as if it were on fire. The pains recur 
regularly at the same hour each day. 

Another remedy to be mentioned in this connection is Kalmia lati- 
folia, which has supra-orbital neuralgia, worse on the right side. 

Aclea may also be used for headache attended with a feeling as if 
the patient were going crazy. Especially is it of value when uterine 
symptoms are present. 

It is also called for when there is pain in the left infra-mammary 
region, dependent upon uterine disturbances. 

We come now to the action of Actea on the female sexual organs. 
It is indicated in labor or in threatened miscarriage when the pains fly 
across the abdomen from side to side (Lycopodium, from right to left; 
Ipecac, from left to right and associated with nausea). The pains 
seem to double the patient up. It may also be used in the early 
months of pregnancy for those pains in the abdominal walls which so 
distress the patient. 

When there is a great deal of soreness in the abdomen, the local ap- 
plication of a solution of Hamamelis is a good remedy. 

The labor-pains of Actea seem to be associated with fainting spells 
or with crying out in agony, so severe are they. 

In after-pains it is useful only when they are intense, when the 
patient is exceedingly sensitive and cannot tolerate them, and when 
they are worse in the groin. 

Actea may also be used in puerperal mania. The patient declares 
that she will go crazy, and her every action apparently indicates that 
she is keeping her word. She is suspicious. Her talk is nonsensical, 
and yet she seems to be conscious of what she is doing, and she says 
she cannot help it. Sometimes she has visions of rats, etc. These 
symptoms may also indicate the drug in delirium tremens. 

Here you may compare Lachesis, which has " awakening from sleep 
and springing from bed, not only with superhuman strength, but in 
great terror. ' ' 

Arsenicum often follows Lachesis when the patient is afraid to be left 
alone. 

Calcarea ostrearum has visions of rats and mice as soon as the patient 
closes her eyes. 

Another symptom that we find indicating Actea in labor is ' ( rigors, 



ACTEA RACEMOSA. 329 

or nervous chills " in the first stage of labor. Gelsemium also is use- 
ful in this condition. 

Actea racemosa does not cause phthisis, yet it may be one of the first 
remedies indicated when the disease is not of hereditary origin, 
especially if the trouble has been brought on hy exposure, or in any 
case in which the well-defined cough of Actea is present. This cough 
is dry, teasing, worse at night, with little or no sputum, and usually 
associated with pleurodynia. 

In pleurodynia associated with tuberculosis, you will find Guaiacum 
to be a remedy that rarely fails. 

You may use Actea in angina pectoris when the pains radiate over 
the chest, and are associated with cerebral congestion and unconscious- 
ness. The face is livid, and the left arm feels as if bound tightly to 
the body. 

Another use that we may make of Actea is in that condition known 
as spinal irritation. Especially is it indicated when the upper and 
lower cervical vertebrse, particularly the latter, are sensitive to pres- 
sure; hence the patient will not lean back in her chair because of the 
uneasiness which it produces. This symptom of Actea is usually reflex 
from uterine irritation. 

We have several remedies similar to Actea in spinal irritation. One 
of these is Natrum mur., which also produces sensitiveness between 
the vertebrae. The main distinction is that the patient finds relief 
from lying flat on the back, and that, too, even when there is a uterine 
displacement. Another indication calling for Natrum mur. is a partial 
paralysis from weakness of the spine. Especially is it indicated when 
these symptoms arise from grief, anger, etc. 

% Physostigma, or the Calabar bean, develops a perfect picture of 
spinal irritation. It produces all sorts of burning and twinging sensa- 
tions referable to the spinal column, with numbness of the feet and 
hands and other parts of the body, crampy pains in the hands, and 
sudden jerking of the limbs on dropping off to sleep. The muscles of 
the back become rigid, and even a tetanic condition may ensue. 

Agaricus muscarius also produces a perfect picture of spinal irrita- 
tion, with well-marked tingling or formication in the back, itching or 
burning of the skin as if frost-bitten, twitching of the muscles, espe- 
cially of the eyelids, and sensations in different parts of the body as if 
needles of ice were being thrust into the skin. 

This spinal irritation may develop a partial paralysis, in which case 



330 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

we have two remedies to fall back upon. The first of these is Zincum 
metallicum. This produces a perfect picture of irritable spine, with 
aching in the back at about the last dorsal vertebra, worse from sitting 
than from either walking or lying. Accompanying this symptom 
there is weakness of the legs, especially at noon, when the patient is 
hungry. You should also remember that the spinal symptoms of Zinc 
are made worse by wine. 

The second remedy is Cocculus Indicus. This we use in females with 
weak spine, when there is paralytic aching in the small of the back. 
The patient feels as if she could scarcely walk. Along with these 
symptoms there is also an empty, gone feeling in the abdomen, which 
feels as if it were a hollow cavity. 

Among men we do not find these symptoms present except as a re- 
sult of sexual excesses, in which case Nnx vomica is the remedy. 

Cobalt is of use for spinal irritation from sexual excesses when there 
is backache, worse when sitting, with weakness in the legs. 



Ranunculus Bulbosus. 

Serous membranes. 
Ranunculus , Muscles, 
bulbosus. Effects of alcohol. 

^ Skin. 

Compare with Aconite, Arnica, Cactus, Bryonia, Rhustox., Arsen- 
icum, Mezereum. 

We have two varieties of the Ranunculus to consider to day. These 
are the Ranunculus bulboszcs and the Ranunculus sceleratus. Both of 
these plants possess a juice or sap which is exceedingly irritating to 
the skin. When applied locally, it produces erythema followed later 
by an eruption which is at first vesicular in character and attended with 
burning, smarting and itching. If the symptoms continue, by reason 
of the intensity of the action of the drug ulceration and even gangrene 
of the parts may follow, the gangrene being associated with fever and 
delirium. This is an extreme picture, yet it is one which may follow 
the prolonged use of some of the species of Ranunculus. 

We shall now consider Ranunculus bulbosus. First as to its action 



RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS. 331 

on serous membranes: we may think of Ranunculus bulbosus in inflam- 
mation of serous membranes, particularly of the pleura or peritoneum, 
, when there are acute stabbing pains, accompanied by an effusion of 
/ serum into the serous sac. Accompanying this effusion we find great 
I anxiety, dyspnoea and distress, caused partly by the accumulation of 
fluid and partly by the anxiety from the pains themselves. Now 
these are symptoms not commonly known among physicians, 3^et 
you will find that here Ranunculus will serve you as well as Apis, 
Bryonia or Sulphur or even better than these, if the pains are of the 
character just described. 

The second heading in our schema is " Muscles." We find Ranun- 
culus acting here as a curative agent. It is especially indicated in 
rheumatism of the muscles, particularly in muscles about the trunk. 
/ Intercostal rheumatism yields far more quickly to this drug than to 
any other. There is usually a great deal of soreness to touch, and the 
muscles have a bruised feeling, as if they had been pounded. I know 
that Aconite, Arnica or Bryonia is often given when Ranunculus is in- 
dicated. 

Aconite may be the remedy in pleurodynia when there is high fever 
(which is not often), especially if you can trace the trouble to ex- 
posure to cold after being overheated. 

Ranunculus bulbosus may also be used in the case of persons who are 
- subject to stitches about the chest in every change of weather. 

Again, it may be used for sore spots remaining in and about the 
chest after pneumonia. The characteristic sensation attending the 
Ranunculus soreness is a feeling of subcutaneous ulceration, which is 
purely subjective. This symptom is also characteristic of Pulsatilla. 

Again, Ra?iu?iculus may be used for pains about the lungs from ad- 
hesions after pleurisy. 

The rheumatic pains of Ranunculus are worse in damp weather and 
particularly from a change of weather or change of temperature. 
Even a rheumatic headache having this aggravation, may call for 
Ranunculus. 

We may find it indicated also in diaphragmitis, when there are 
sharp shooting pains from the hypochondria and epigastrium through 
to the back. 

Another remedy that I have found of service in this latter disease is 
Cactus grandijlorus, which is an excellent remedy for sharp pains in 
the diaphragm, particularly if there is a feeling as though a band 



33 2 A CUNICAIv MATERIA MEDICA. 

were tied around the waist marking the attachments of the diaphragm 
to the borders of the ribs. 

You should remember Ranunculus bulbosus as a remedy for the bad 
effects of excess in drink, in hiccough and even in epileptiform attacks 
and delirium tremens. 

Ranunculus bulbosus is useful in herpes zoster or zona. Vesicles ap- 
pear on the skin and are filled with serum. Sometimes these vesicles 
have a bluish-black appearance. There is marked burning. Espe- 
cially is Ranunculus indicated when the trouble follows the course of 
the supra-orbital or intercostal nerves and is followed by sharp stitch- 
ing pains. Here you may compare Rhus tox., Arsenicum and 
Mezereum. 

Ranunculus may also produce pemphigus. Large blisters form, 
which burst and leave raw surfaces. 

Again, you may use Ranwiculus in eczema, attended with thicken- 
ing of the skin and the formation of hard horny scabs. 

Here it is similar to Antimonium crudum, which has also horny ex- 
crescences or callosities on the soles of the feet. 

The ulcers which Ra?iunculus causes are flat and are attended with a 
great deal of stinging pain. The discharge is ichorous. 

Lastly, we may mention the action of Ranunculus on mucous mem- 
branes. It is one of the remedies useful in hay fever. You will find 
that there is smarting in the eyes; the eyelids burn and feel sore; the 
nose is stuffed up, especially toward evening, with pressure at the root 
of the nose and tingling, crawling sensation within its cavity. Some- 
times this sensation attacks the posterior nares, causing the patient to 
hawk and swallow, and endeavor in every way to scratch the affected 
part. Arsenicum and Silicea also have this symptom. You will 
notice, too, that there is with this hay fever, hoarseness, general mus- 
cular soreness and very likely sharp stitching pains in and about the 
chest. The neck of the bladder may be affected, producing some 
burning on urinating. 

Ambrosia artemisicefolia should be compared in hay fever. The prov- 
ings by Dr. E. E. Holman contain the following: stuffed sensation in 
the nose and chest; oppressive pain in the left chest, must sit up to 
breathe comfortably; worse in the evening until midnight; awakens 
suddenly with pertussis-like cough; face dark red; eyes congested, 
smarting, watery; nose, red, swollen; watery coryza. 

Sulphur does not follow Ranunculus well. 



ranunculus sceleratus. 333 

Ranunculus Sceleratus. 

f Tongue, etc. 
Ranunculus sceleratus. < _., . 
(Skin. 

Compare with Natrum mur., Arsenicum, Taraxacum, Rhus tox. 

Ranunculus sceleratus is more irritating in its action than is Ranun- 
culus bulbosiis. In its action on the skin it produces a vesicular 
eruption with thin, yellow, acrid discharge, something like that of 
Raiiunculus bulbosus. It also develops more markedly large isolated 
blisters. When these burst, an ulcer is formed, the discharge from 
which is very acrid, making the surrounding parts sore. 

In stomacace, and sometimes even in diphtheria or in typhoid fever, 
you will find Ranunculus sceleratus indicated by the presence of de- 
nuded patches on the tongue, the remainder of the organ being coated. 
Thus we have the condition known as mapped tongue. Natrum mur. 
has this symptom and so have Arsenicum, Rhus tox., and Taraxacum, 
but none of these remedies have the same amount of burning and raw- 
ness that Ranunculus sceleratus has. The acridity of the drug differ- 
entiates it from all others. 

Like Ranunculus bulbosus, Ranunculus sceleratus may be indicated in 
ordinary catarrhs with sneezing, fluent coryza, pains in joints, and 
burning on urination. 



LECTURE XXXIII. 

HELLEBORUS NIGER AND STAPHISAGRIA. 

HKIvIvKBORUS nigkr. 



f Sweet spirits of nitre, 

~" ""7' -I Phosphoric acid, 

depression. ] . 



Sensorial 



Helleborus niger. <{ 



Opium. 



Apis, Digitalis, Zin- 
Dropsies. -j cum (Brain), Tere- 
binthina. 

I propose considering first, to-day, Helleborus niger. This is also 
termed the Christmas rose, because it blossoms in midwinter. It has 
a dark brown root, which contains two active principles, Helleborin 
and Hellebore i?i. The latter is said to be the poisonous constituent of 
the plant. It is an active cardiac poison, and also causes violent purg- 
ing, vomiting, abdominal pains, and finally collapse. This purgative 
action resembles Veratrum album, and the collapse, Camphor, Ca? r bo 
veg., China, etc. Veratrum album has not the apathy of Hellebore; 
Carbo veg. has cold feet and cold knees, rarely unconsciousness; 
Camphor has most .prominently the coldness, sometimes with an inter- 
nal feeling of heat, impelling the patient to throw off the clothes. 
The Helleborin is either inoperative, or, according to some authors, 
exerts a narcotic influence, and produces paresis of both sensation and 
motion. 

The action of Helleborus has been marked out for you on the board. 
It blunts the sensorium, producing sopor, typhoid symptoms, paraly- 
sis of muscles, collapse, and lastly dropsies. Before going any fur- 
ther I wish to say that by collapse I mean not a simple weakness, but 
a condition in which there is a positive diminution of temperature, so 
that the thermometer, instead of registering 98^° registers 96 , or 
thereabouts, according to the intensity of the collapse. 

In its action on the sensorium we find that Helleborus blunts or de- 
presses sensorial activity. This condition is exhibited in a variety of 



HELLEBORUS NIGER. 335 

symptoms; for instance, we note diminished power of the mind over the 
body; the patient is slow in answering questions, as though he did not 
comprehend what was asked him; he sees imperfectly, or does not 
seem to comprehend what -he sees; hearing is imperfect; taste is ab- 
sent, or nearly so; he has the desire to work or to occupy himself, but 
lacks the muscular strength to do so. So you see that all the senses 
are benumbed by the action of Helleboras. Even what has been 
termed the muscular sense is affected by it. Muscles do not obey the 
will readily unless the mind is strongly exerted. If, for instance, the 
patient is holding anything in his hand and you speak to him, and so 
divert his mind, the muscles in action relax and he drops what he is 
holding. Even the heart muscle does not escape these paretic effects, 
and we have slow action of that organ. The patient feels a heaviness 
or weight over the entire body. There is a pressing headache of a 
stupefying character. Sometimes there is a sensation as though the 
contents of the head were bulging at the forehead and eyes. Bella- 
donna is thus not the only remedy that has the sensation as though 
the brain were being pushed through the forehead. The face is ex- 
pressive of the stupidity under which the patient is laboring. 

We may find Hellebore indicated in typhoid fever, or in other con- 
ditions in which this sensorial depression, with the symptoms already 
enumerated, is present. In these cases you will also note the follow- 
ing symptoms: there is a dark soot about the nostrils; the nostrils are 
dry ; the tongue is yellow and dry, with red edges; the breath is hor- 
ribly offensive; drinks roll audibly into the stomach. The fever ac- 
companying these symptoms is most marked in the afternoon, from 4 
to 8 p. m. The face is at times pale and almost cold, and the pulse 
faint, weak, and almost imperceptible. There is also meaningless 
picking at the lips or clothing. 

In this sensorial depression Helleborus is similar to Phosphoric acid, 
Sweet spirits of nitre and Opium. Like Phosphoric acid, it has sensorial 
depression, apathy, and perfect indifference. The patient is wholly 
indifferent as to his fate; he cares not whether he lives or dies. The 
difference between the two drugs is that under Phosphoric acid there is 
drowsiness from which the patient is easily aroused, and then is per- 
fectty conscious; this is not the case with Helleborus, which has a con- 
dition more nearly approaching the stupor of Opium. Phosphoric acid 
lacks the complete muscular relaxation belonging to Helleborus. It 
also has not so markedly black soot about the nostrils. 



336 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Sweet spirits of nitre is a remedy recommended by Hahnemann in 
these cases of typhoid fever when the key-note to the whole case is 
sensorial apathy, there being, of course, no other symptoms present to 
indicate any other remedy. The patient seems to be in a sort of tor- 
por, from which he may, by exertion, be aroused, but he falls back 
immediately into the same indifference. In these cases Hahnemann 
dissolved a few drops of the crude drug in half a glassful of water and 
administered it every two or three hours until reaction was manifested 
or some other drug indicated. You will find that Sweet spirits of nitre 
and Phosphoric acid differ from Helleborus in degree only, Sweet spirits 
of nitre having apathy in the lowest degree, Phosphoric acid coming 
next, while Helleborus has it most marked. 

Opium, the last drug on the list, you will recognize at once as simi- 
lar to Helleborus. The cerebral congestion is more profound under the 
Opium. The breathing is loud and stertorous, a symptom not marked 
in Helleborus. Then, too, the face is dark, brownish-red, or often blue; 
under Helleborus it is pale, and often cold or at least cooler than nat- 
ural, and at times livid and covered with a cold sweat. The pulse 
will help you to discriminate between these two remedies, it being 
full and slow under Opium, and small, weak, and almost imperceptible 
under Helleborus. 

Arnica is also to be thought of as a remedy producing this drowsy 
stupid state, from which the patient may be temporarily aroused. 

Hydrocyanic acid and Cina have the symptom, " drinks roll audibly 
into the stomach." Cina has it in whooping-cough, but when it oc- 
curs in approaching paralysis of the lungs and brain, Hydrocya?iic acid 
is the best remedy. Phosphorus has it in typhoidal conditions. Cu- 
prum has gurgling in the oesophagus when drinking. 

In muscular exhaustion you may compare Helleborus with Muriatic 
acid, Opium, Gelsemium, Saponin, Conium, Curare, and Kali carb. 

Next, we find Helleborus called for in meningitis when exudation 
has taken place. You have present all or some of the symptoms of 
sensorial apathy already mentioned, showing you the depressed condi- 
tion of the system. In addition you have shooting pains in the head. 
If the patient is a child, it will, of course, be unable to describe this 
last symptom, but you will notice by the sudden screaming or crying 
out that it has these sharp shooting pains. The child bores its head 
into the pillow; the head is hot, and the forehead wrinkled into a 
frown from contraction of the corrugator supercilii muscles. There 



HKIXEBORUS NIGER. 337 

is automatic motion of one arm and one foot. This automatic motion 
may recur at regular intervals. I remember one case in which, every 
three minutes, the child's head was jerked to one side and the 
arm thrown up over the head, it would then utter a half -pitiful cry 
and become quiet again. In the Helleborus child, the eyeballs are 
drawn upward, so that you can scarcely see the cornea; the face be- 
comes flushed, and then gradually turns pale. When offered a drink 
of water the child seizes the proffered glass with avidity, as though it 
were thirsty; this it does, not only on account of the thirst, but also 
because of the nervousness. The bowels are usually constipated, or, 
if there is any stool, it is white, scanty, and jelly-like. The urine is 
dark, scanty, and loaded with albumen. 

We can readily conceive that summer-complaint may demand Helle- 
borus if these symptoms are present. In addition we may have sore 
mouth, salivation, rubbing of the nose, etc. 

The nearest remedy to Helleborus in tuberculous meningitis is Apis. 
This drug has more of the cri encephalique and more excitement and 
irritability than Helleborus, which has, characteristically, sensorial de- 
pression. In Apis we often find spasms of the flexors, so that the big 
toes are drawn upward. This symptom has not been noticed under 
Helleborus. 

Digitalis is very similar to Helleborus in dropsies of the brain. Both 
remedies cause great depression of the sensorium, both are suited to 
post-scarlatinal dropsy, and both cause meningitis with effusion. Dig- 
italis is to be chosen by the scanty, albuminous urine, and by its char- 
acteristically slow pulse, which may be even slower than the beating 
of the heart. In addition to these symptoms there may be a cold sweat 
on the surface of the body. 

Ziyicum is useful in cases where one of the exanthemata has been 
checked, or has not developed properly. The child is so enervated 
that it has not sufficient strength to develop an eruption. It arouses 
from sleep as if in fear; it has constant fidgety motion of the feet. 

Other forms of dropsy in which Helleborus is indicated are general 
dropsy or anasarca, and especially ascites. Here you may give Helle- 
borus when the trouble has arisen from post-scarlatinal nephritis. The 
urine is dark and scanty, or smoky from the admixture of decomposed 
blood. On standing it deposits a sediment looking like coffee-grounds. 
The stool contains jelly-like mucus, and is passed with much straining. 

The nearest remedy here is Terebi?ithi?ia, which cures dropsy 
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338 



A CUNICAL MATERIA MKDTCA. 



dependent on congestion of the kidneys, as indicated by dull aching in 
the renal region and by the smoky-looking urine. 

In dropsies compare also Arsenicum and Apocynum. 

As illustrative further of the depression of Helleborus, I may men- 
tion its successful employment in a case of shock from a blow on the 
head. Arnica had failed, and the patient became drowsy; one pupil 
was larger than the other; the patient answered questions slowly as if 
comprehension were imperfect; one leg was dragged in walking. The 
pulse was scarcely fifty per minute, and the patient in general was 
worse from 4 to 8 p. m. Helleborus cured the case. 



Staphisagria. 



Staphisagria. < 



V 

Colocynthis. 
Causticum. 



( i. Blood. 

Sycosis, 
Scurvy. 

2. Loss of Fluids. 

3. Organs. 



Similar to 
Nux vomica, 



Mercurius, 

Thuja, 

Cistus Canadensis, 

Colocynthis, 
Chamomilla. 



Staphisagria is indicated in patients who appear pale, and are worn 
out and exhausted, especially as regards their nervous system. Both 
brain and spinal cord are weakened under its influence. The face is 
rather sunken, the nose is peaked and pointed, and the eyes are sunken 
and surrounded by blue rings. Mentally, the Staphisagria child is 
rather impetuous and irritable, reminding one strongly of Chamomilla; 
the adult Staphisagria patient is hypochondriacal. There may be one 
of several causes producing this last-named mental state. First, sex- 
ual excesses: it is called for in these hypochondriacal moods after 
self-abuse, and also when this mental state occurs in young men and 
young women as a result of permitting the mind to dwell too much on 
sexual subjects. Owing to his bad habit the boy becomes apathetic 
and gloomy, and has the complexion and sunken face that I have de- 
scribed. He rather prefers solitude, and is shy of the opposite sex. 
Locally, there is to be noted an irritability of the prostatic portion of 
the urethra. This state of affairs usually follows self- abuse; it is sel- 
dom the result of excessive sexual intercourse. 



STAPHISAGRIA. 339 

Platina was recommended by Grauvogl as a drug capable of curing 
spasms or convulsions, emaciation, and that train of symptoms which 
follows prepubic abuse of the sexual organs. 

Still another remedy, Caladium, is to be thought of when, from 
masturbation, the glans penis is as flabby as a rag. The prepuce, 
when it is withdrawn behind the glans, remains there, not having con- 
tractility enough to replace itself. Nocturnal emissions occur either 
without dreams or with dreams that are foreign to sexual subjects. 

Other remedies indicated in this condition are Dioscorea, Gelsemium, 
and that well known group to which I have already referred in a pre- 
vious lecture, Nux vomica^ Sulphur, Calcarea ostrearum and Lycopo- 
dium. Among the new remedies, Bromide of Potassium or Kali 
bromatum has been suggested. I have seen it do good when there was 
mental depression and weakness of the legs after self-abuse. 

In the female, in whom masturbation is not so common, we find 
ovarian symptoms resulting from the habit. Staphisagria becomes the 
remedy when these organs are in a state of irritability, especially in 
nervous excitable women. It ma}' also be used in women of this class 
when these symptoms occur in the prolonged absence of their hus- 
bands. When pruritus vulvae is also present, Caladium often helps. 

Staphisagria has another set of mental symptoms of a different t} 7 pe 
from those just mentioned. The patient is easily excited to anger, 
sensitive to the least impression, and takes offence at every little 
meant or unmeant insult. 

We find Staphisagria indicated in what I have already termed a 
mental colic; that is crampy pains in the abdomen following a fit of 
anger, just as we found present under Chamomilla and Colocynth. 

Chamomilla is called for in these cases when hot face, red cheeks 
and hot perspiration are associated with the colic; and Colocynth, when 
the severe pains cause the patient to double up for relief. Staphisagria 
is here complementary to Colocynth, stepping in to complete the cure 
when Colocynth is insufficient. 

We find Staphisagria indicated also in diseases of the skin and of 
the bones. This drug has long been used as a local wash to destroy 
lice or vermin. You may use it internally when an eczematous erup- 
tion appears on the skin. This may occur on any other part of the 
body, but it is especially apt to be found on the head and face. The 
eruption is usually dry, and formed of very thick scabs, and itches 
violently, this last being an indication for the local application of 



34-0 A CUNICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Staphisagria. The peculiarity of this itching is that when scratching 
stops it in one place, it goes to another. At other times these scabs 
are moist, and are yellowish in color and very offensive, even breeding 
lice. Thus you see Staphisagria is suited to crusta lactea or eczema 
capitis. 

Again this drug may be indicated in children who are weak and 
broken down as the result of a syphilitic or sycotic inheritance. In 
such children you almost always find the teeth decaying rapidly. 
The milk-teeth are scarcely full grown before they become black in 
creases or spots and crumble away. In this respect Staphisagria rivals 
Kreosote, which is one of the best remedies for premature decay of the 
milk-teeth, when they first become yellow, then dark and finally de- 
cay. In Thuja, as you will remember, the teeth decay at the edge of 
the gums. 

Next to these remedies you may think of Antimonium crudum, and 
in other cases still, Chamomilla and Cojjea. 

In the Staphisagria patient the gums are unhealthy, swollen, spongy 
and bleed easily when touched by food or by the finger, this condition 
being associated with painful swelling of the submaxillary glands. It 
is especially indicated after the abuse of Mercury. 

Staphisagria is useful in children suffering from inflammation of the 
eyes, particularly of the lids with hardened styes. 

For those little cystic tumors which form in the eyelids midway be- 
tween the inner and outer surfaces, Graphites is the best remedy. 
Baryta carb. also cures tarsal tumors. 

The Staphisagria children have an eczematous eruption composed of 
yellow scabs about the ears. The exudation from these is bloody and 
seems to cause rawness of the skin. Still further, we find Staphisagria 
affecting the bones. It causes swelling of the periosteum with subse- 
quent suppuration. 

It also produces fig- warts or condylomata on the skin; these are 
usually pediculated. This symptom places Staphisagria among the 
sycotic remedies. Thus we find it a suitable companion of Thuja, be- 
ing preferable to that remedy when there are present the form of erup- 
tion already mentioned, the crumbling of the teeth and the pediculated 
condylomata. 

In some cases we find it indicated in syphilitic ulceration after the 
abuse of Mercury, the discharge being thin and acrid. An examina- 
tion with the probe reveals diseased bone beneath. 



STAPHISAGRIA. 341 

We have several remedies similar to Staphisagria in bone affections, 
whether of syphilitic or scrofulous origin. One of them is Stillingia. 
This is ,of great use in syphilitic affections of the long bones, such as 
the femur, tibia, humerus, etc., and in periosteitis or in osteitis, the 
pains being worse at night and in damp weather. In addition to this 
you almost alwa3 7 s find an excoriating coryza, the well-known syph- 
ilitic ozaena. 

Another remedy is Mercurius. Still another is Kali hydriodicum, 
especially when there is a combination of syphilis and mercury in the 
case. 

Strontiana carb. is suited more to the scrofulous constitution. It is 
indicated in osteitis, particularly of the femur, with ulcers which dis- 
charge more or less broken-down bone. With the bone trouble there 
is apt to be a profuse exhausting diarrhoea almost like that accom- 
panying hectic fever. 

Another remedy is Chloride of Gold and Platinum which is useful for 
either caries or necrosis. 

Gettysburg Salts, which owes its effectiveness to the lithium carbon- 
ate it contains, is useful especially in caries of the vertebrae and of the 
hip-joint. 

Another use of Staphisagria is found in its application to gout. It 
is not so useful for the acute paroxysms as it is when gout becomes 
systemic, and the sodium urate, instead of being eliminated by the 
kidneys, is deposited in the various joints and organs of the body, pro- 
ducing arthritic nodes. 

It is also indicated in arthritic ophthalmia. The eyes burn and feel 
very dry, notwithstanding which there are smarting and profuse lach- 
rymation. The pains go from the eyes into the teeth. 

In these gouty affections of the eyes, Colocynth is also a good remedy. 

Upon the stomach Staphisagria seems to produce a relaxation, so 
that the organ appears to hang down and is flabby and weak. This 
same symptom you will find under Ipecacuanha and Abrota?ium. In 
Staphisagria there is a desire for brandy, wine or something stimulat- 
ing. Such patients are subject to colic, which greatly resembles that 
of Colocynth. 

You must also remember Staphisagria as a remedy in colic following 
operations about the abdomen. It is also efficacious when an incised 
wound, whether inflicted by the surgeon or by accident, is unduly 
sensitive. 



34 2 A CLINICAL MATERIA MBD1CA. 

In diarrhoea in children Staphisagria is indicated when the disorder 
is associated with a peculiar form of stomacace; the tongue and gums 
are white and spongy, while there are cutting pains before and after 
stool, with a great deal of tenesmus of the rectum during stool, and 
escape of flatus, which is usually hot and smells like rotten eggs (here 
being similar to Chamomilla) , stool being renewed by any attempt to 
take food or drink. 

In its action on the female organs, Staphisagria causes prolapsus 
uteri, and this prolapsus is almost always associated with a flabby con- 
dition of the stomach. The whole abdomen — contents and parietes — 
feels as if it would drop, so relaxed is it. If you investigate thor- 
oughly, you will find that disappointed love or permitting the mind to 
dwell on sexual subjects has favored this relaxation. The leucorrhcea 
which accompanies this condition is yellow and excoriating. 



LECTURE XXXIV. 

PULSATILLA PRATENSIS. 



Pulsatilla. { 



f Blood-vessels. 

Mucous membranes. 

Synovial membranes. 
^ Organs. 

Compare with Bryonia, Nux vomica, Antimonium crudum, Ipecac, 
Sulphur, Sulphuric acid, Arsenicum, Colchicum, Kali bichromicuvi , 
Caulophyllum , Ignatia, Actea racemosa, Helonias, Hamamelis, Sepia. 

To-day we shall study Pulsatilla. The species which we shall con- 
sider is the Pulsatilla of Hahnemann, the Pulsatilla praiensis, and not 
the American plant, the Pulsatilla Nuttalliana. There is some little 
difference in the action of the two drugs. The " pratensis" has been 
better proved. The concordant remedies of this drug are almost with- 
out number. The reason for this is that it is a well-proved remedy, 
and one, too, that is often indicated. Its complementary remedies are 
Sulphuric acid and Lycopodium. 

Its antidotes are Chaviomilla, Coffea, Ignatia and Nux vomica. 

The relation of Pulsatilla or Sulphuric acid calls for particular notice. 
The latter remedy follows the former in gastric troubles. Pulsatilla is 
also antidotal to Sulphuric acid. When this acid has been used for the 
cure of the appetite for liquor, Pulsatilla has been proposed as the 
remedy best suited for the diarrhoea which ensues. 

Pulsatilla pratensis is a pretty little flower belonging to the anemone. 
It has been called the wind-flower, and its name is in keeping with its 
symptoms, as they are as fickle as the wind. Changeableness of the 
symptoms is characteristic of the drug. This is especially marked in 
the haemorrhages, which apparently stop and in a few hours return. 
It is also true of the diarrhoea, the stools continually changing their 
appearance — at one time being green, at another mixed with yellow, 
and at still another slimy. 

The mental symptoms are of the same fickle nature, the patient now 
being irritable, then tearful, and again mild and pleasant. These are 
illustrations of the changeableness that I have described. 



344 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

Pulsatilla seems to be especially adapted to the female organism, 
although it affects men as well as women. It is one of those remedies 
which we are apt to select by the predominance of the mental symp- 
toms. It is especially indicated in patients of a mild, tearful disposi- 
tion, having a rather slow, phlegmatic temperament. They are never 
irascible, although at times peevish. Thus, in the case of a child with 
some gastric ailment, Pulsatilla may be used when it is peevish, pale, 
chilly, and satisfied with nothing. This is not the Nux vomica con- 
dition, nor is it like Chamomilla, both of which remedies have decid- 
edly more violence with their anger. 

The Pulsatilla woman is tearful and easily discouraged. Sometimes 
she is full of anxiety, with forebodings of some impending disaster. 
This anxiety comes from the epigastrium and is very likely to be asso- 
ciated with indigestion. It is often accompanied by chattering of the 
teeth, palpitation of the heart and flushes of heat. These are the main 
mental symptoms of Pulsatilla. They are present, more or less, in 
every disease in which it is the remedy. 

In these mental symptoms you should compare Sepia, which, you 
will recall, has a similar mental state; but it differs from Pulsatilla in 
the presence of irritability and anger. There is also indifference to 
her household affairs, to which she was formerly attentive. 

Natrum muriaticum also has tearful disposition similar to that of 
Pulsatilla, but consolation under Natrum mur. aggravates, while un- 
der Pulsatilla the patient seeks consolation. 

Stannum metallicu?n likewise has this tearful disposition. The pa- 
tient is very much discouraged, or is tearful over his chest symptoms. 
He fears that he will go into a decline. 

The Ignatia patient is sad, but she hides her grief from others. 

Pulsatilla is especially suitable for chlorotic or anaemic women, when 
they complain constantly of a feeling of dulness, but in spite of this 
find relief for many of their symptoms in the open air. They cannot 
tolerate a close room. The pains from which they suffer seem to be 
accompanied by chilliness. This chilliness is more marked the more 
decided the pains are. The mental symptoms already mentioned are 
present. Especially is Pulsatilla the remedy when chlorosis has been 
complicated by the abuse of iron and quinine. Chlorotic patients, 
coming to you from allopathic hands after iron and quinine have failed 
to relieve, thus showing you that these remedies are not suitable to 
the case, will find their first, if not their only remedy, in Pulsatilla. 



PULSATILLA PRATENSIS. 345 

You will frequently find this hint of service to you in practice, not 
only in chlorosis, but in other affections as well, when they arise, not 
so much from local disease, as from a general defective state of nutri- 
tion; the whole system is worn out; ever}' tissue is relaxed. The 
woman suffers from mal-position of the uterus. The menses are late 
and scant}', dark, clotted or changeable in character. Pulsatilla does 
not always cure after the abuse of iron, but it stands in the same rela- 
tion to this substance that Nux vomica does to the abuse of drastic 
purgatives, and Camphor to cantharides. 

To understand how these phenomena of Pulsatilla are caused — 
whether in women, where they are most frequently met with, or more 
exceptionally in men — you must remember that the drug acts upon 
the vascular system, especially upon the right heart, and upon the 
veins and capillaries. Thus we find that whatever weakens the venous 
portion of the circulation, whatever retards the return of blood to the 
heart, must of course provoke just the class of symptoms for which 
Pulsatilla may be indicated. We know, for instance, that a warm, 
close room will provoke these symptoms. If a person sits in a close 
room or in one where the temperature is too high, the veins will be- 
come tortuous and there will be some oppression about the chest and 
retardation of the heart's action. When these symptoms occur in dis- 
ease they suggest Pulsatilla. It acts on the right heart more than on 
the left, consequently, despite the chilliness which arises from the 
anaemia, the open air acts as a stimulus to the venous circulation, and 
this improves the symptoms depending upon the sluggish flow of 
blood. You will find many symptoms throughout the entire body 
calling for Pulsatilla when there is this disturbance in the venous cir- 
culation. 

In the chest there is a feeling of soreness referred to either the right 
or the left sub-clavicular region, or to the apex of one or the other lung. 
This soreness is felt when the patient lies on the affected side or 
presses against the chest. It seems to involve the muscular structures 
about the shoulder and even down the arm of the affected side. This 
symptom indicates venous congestion, or, at least, sluggish circula- 
tion through the upper part of the lung. It has been a valuable symp- 
tom to me and to many physicians in the incipiency of tuberculosis, 
especially in women of the Pulsatilla temperament. Along with this 
soreness in the lung there may be some cough with expectoration. 
Although there may be no symptoms indicating the positive existence 



346 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

of tuberculous infiltration we will have other symptoms indicating the 
onset of the disease. Pulsatilla has several times relieved these cases. 

Then, too, we have Pulsatilla indicated in varicose veins, whether 
occurring on the limbs or about the testicle (varicocele). The affected 
parts are bluish and annoy the patient by the soreness and stinging 
pains in them. 

The epistaxis of Pulsatilla is of a passive character. The flow comes 
steadily, but it is not .bright red and does not come in gushes as it 
does in epistaxis dependent upon arterial lesions. It often occurs 
vicariously, taking the place of the menses. The same is true of the 
blood-spitting or haemoptysis, which is either associated with this 
soreness or passive congestion of the chest or is dependent upon sup- 
pressed menstruation. 

Pulsatilla has an important analogue, namely, Hamamelis, in these 
venous symptoms. Before Hamamelis was proved Pulsatilla was the 
only remedy we could depend upon in the class of symptoms enumer- 
ated. Hamamelis is the preferable drug in varicose veins unless con- 
stitutional symptoms call for Pulsatilla, especially in the case of vari- 
cocele. Varicocele has been cured by Ha?namelis applied externally 
and taken internally. The great characteristic of this drug, and that 
which makes its choice certain, is soreness of the affected part. It is 
a soreness which is not exactly the bruised feeling of Arnica; it is not 
the sensitive soreness of Lachesis; nor the stinging soreness of Apis; 
but it is that sore feeling which belongs to venous congestion. You may 
apply Hamamelis successfully in any condition in which that is pres- 
ent. I have often made use of the drug in pregnancy, when varicose 
veins appeared over the abdomen, and when the patient could not 
make any motion without experiencing a bruised sore feeling. Hama- 
melis is not the panacea which druggists would have us believe. It 
does not cure everything, sprains, etc., but it does cure the class of 
symptoms I have mentioned. 

Another concordant remedy of Pulsatilla is Lilium tigrinum, which, 
like the former, affects the right heart', producing engorgement of the 
veins, relief in the open air, scanty menses, and taste of blood in the 
mouth. But it differs from Pulsatilla in the decided tendency to pro- 
lapsus uteri, with bearing down, relieved by supporting the abdomen, 
or by crossing the limbs; and in the mental state, which is one of irri- 
tability and restlessness with constant desire to hurry. Furthermore, 
when Lilium is indicated, a sharp pain, extending from the left nipple 
through the chest to the back, is apt to be present. 



PULSATILLA PRATENSIS. 347 

Another analogue is Sepia, which has many of the Pulsatilla symp- 
toms. Sepia, also, is indicated in anaemia and chlorosis, and it also 
has the mild tearful temperament, but there is a difference in the men- 
tal symptoms. With Sepia there ma}^ be irritability or at times ve- 
hemence. 

The Sepia patient has complete aversion to her usual household 
duties. 

Let us now consider the action of Pulsatilla on mucous membranes. 
This is easily remembered. It produces a catarrhal inflammation of 
the mucous membrane, which ends in the production of bland yellow 
or yellowish-green mucus. You have here an indication which you 
may apply to any mucous membrane. 

Conjunctivitis calls for Pulsatilla when the discharge is thick, yel- 
low or yellowish-green, and bland; hence it is not indicated in the be- 
ginning of the disease, but later in its course, when the symptoms 
have matured. It is an invaluable remedy in ophthalmia after measles, 
in purulent ophthalmia, and in ophthalmia neonatorum (whether these 
troubles are of gonorrhceal origin or not), when the discharge is of 
the character just described. Its analogue here is Argentum nitricum, 
which has precisely the same symptoms in more marked degree, and 
is to be used after the failure of Pulsatilla. The latter in turn some- 
times serves as an intercurrent to spur on the action of Arge?itum 
nitricum. 

Mercurius corrosivus is suitable in cases which, despite the use of 
Argentum nitricum, threaten to ulcerate and perforate the cornea. 

These are not by any means the only eye symptoms of Pulsatilla. 
Dr. George S. Norton, of New York, published in the Hahnemannian 
Monthly, some years ago, a paper on the use of this remedy in diseases 
of the eye, which covered some six or eight pages. In addition to the 
conjunctival inflammation just noticed, Pulsatilla causes obscuration 
of vision, with vertigo and nausea, diplopia, starry apparitions, circles 
of fire, etc. (these generally being reflex symptoms); pustules on the 
cornea, with very little dread of light, but with lachrymation, worse 
in the open air; pressing, stinging pains in the eye; swollen lids; styes, 
relieved when in the open air; margins of the lids inflamed and swollen, 
but not excoriated. 

In ophthalmia, with very little photophobia, it resembles Graphites, 
but has not the cracks along the lid-edges. 

Pulsatilla is also an excellent remedy in small central corneal ulcers, 



348 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

with no vascular supply, especially when occurring in scrofulous sub- 
jects. It may still further be used in lachrymation from disease of the 
lachrymal duct when the symptoms just enumerated are present, and 
for lachrymation worse in the wind. 

Pulsatilla also affects the nasal mucous membrane, developing here 
symptoms which indicate it in the advanced stages of a cold. It 
should not be given in the beginning of a cold unless the temperament 
and other symptoms decide, because sneezing and serous excoriating 
discharge are not characteristic Pulsatilla symptoms. But when you 
find a nasal catarrh "ripened," that is, when the nasal discharge is 
thick, muco-purulent, yellowish or yellowish- green, and not in the 
least excoriating, you have a perfect picture of Pulsatilla. 

In chronic nasal catarrh you may give Pulsatilla if the discharge is 
of this character. You must give the drug frequently and persistently, 
in order to cure. In addition to the symptoms already enumerated, 
there is still another symptom, namely, loss of taste and smell. There 
is a remedy known as Cyclamen, which is very similar to Pulsatilla in 
its symptomatology. It seems to be suited to nasal catarrh when there 
are loss of taste and smell, and this thick discharge just like that of 
Pulsatilla; but it has, in addition, spasmodic sneezing and aversion to 
the open air. 

Pentkorum sedoides is useful in the incipiency of coryza when there 
is rawness in the nose and throat. The patient complains of a con- 
stant wet feeling in the nose, but without coryza. I^ater, there is a 
formation of thick purulent discharge, just as in Pulsatilla. 

Spigelia is one of our best remedies for catarrh of the posterior 
nares. The symptoms indicating it are profuse discharge of mucus 
through the posterior nares; nasal mucus passes off only through the 
posterior nares. This drug has accomplished some good cures in the 
hands of Dr. Aug. Korndoerfer, who also recommends Theridion for 
this affection. 

Hydrastis is also suited to post-nasal catarrh. The discharge is of a 
thin watery character, and is attended with a great deal of burning 
and rawness, together with a sensation as of a hair in the nostrils. 

Pulsatilla is an invaluable remedy in affections of the ears. In otitis 
externa you may use it when the external ear is hot, red, and swollen, 
and there are darting, tearing, pulsating pains, which are worse at 
night. 

In otitis media also it is useful when there is a profuse thick yellow 
or yellowish-green discharge from the ear. 



PULSATILLA PRATENSIS. 349 

Pulsatilla is one of our leading remedies in catarrhal otitis. There 
is deafness, with a feeling as if the ears were stopped up, with rushing 
noises in the ears, isochronous with the pulse. Silicea is the nearest 
remedy to Pulsatilla in catarrhal otorrhcea. 

Belladonna and Mercurius have a deeper action than Pulsatilla, act- 
ing on the cellular tissues. 

Chamomilla is similar to Pulsatilla in the ear symptoms, but the 
pains are more violent, and are attended with red cheeks; the patient 
cannot bear pain. 

Plantago major is to be thought of when earache is associated with 
toothache. 

Tellurium causes catarrh of the middle ear, which may penetrate 
into the cells of the mastoid process and establish an abscess there, or 
may even involve the internal ear or the brain. Pus forms in the 
middle ear, and finally, perforating the membrana tympani, escapes 
externally. The resultant discharge is thin and acrid, causing blis- 
ters wherever it touches, and smells like fish-brine. 

In catarrh of the throat you will find Pulsatilla sometimes, though 
not frequently, the remedy. It would here be indicated by the ap- 
pearance of -the parts. There are a marked redness of the tonsils and 
a varicose condition of the blood-vessels of the parts, and the fauces 
have a dark red or purplish hue. There are also stinging pains in the 
throat (here reminding you of Apis), worse usually from swallowing 
saliva or after eating food. 

Leaving the pharynx we next come to the stomach, where we find 
Pulsatilla indicated in catarrhal conditions. The tongue is coated 
with a thick rough white fur. The mouth feels dry, and yet there is 
not much thirst, thirstlessness being a characteristic of the remedy. 
There are also nausea, and sometimes vomiting, the vomited matters 
consisting either of food or mucus, and also of bile. The food vom- 
ited may have been that eaten a long time before, thus showing the 
weak digestion of the remedy. There is a feeling of fulness and heavi- 
ness in the stomach after eating, sometimes associated with a feeling 
of rawness in the stomach as from ulceration. The latter is merely a 
subjective symptom and is a common sensation in Pulsatilla. Usually 
there is diarrhoea, with slimy or watery stools, worse after midnight. 
Attending these gastric symptoms is heartburn and sometimes, though 
rarely, water-brash. When water-brash calls for Pulsatilla there is a 
putrid taste in the mouth in the morning, better after drinking. The 



350 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

patient craves lemonade. He may complain that his mouth is dry, 
yet it seems to contain plenty of mucus. Other symptoms experienced 
are: feeling of weight in the epigastrium an hour after eating, relieved 
by eating again; feeling in the oesophagus as if food were lying there 
(also China, Abies)-, throbbing in the epigastrium; much flatulence 
which moves about, causing pinching pains and rumbling, worse on 
awaking or just after supper. Now these are the symptoms calling 
for this remedy in gastric catarrh. What are the exciting causes ? 
First of all and most important, Pulsatilla is called for when the trou- 
ble has arisen after partaking of fatty food or of pastry. It is also in- 
dicated in gastric catarrh arising from a mixed diet, as turkey, vege- 
tables, coffee, etc., especially if eaten at night; also after chilling the 
stomach with ice-cream or ice-water, especially if the stomach is warm. 
In still other cases it may be indicated after getting wet, especially 
after getting the feet wet when suppression of the menses ensues. 

Let us now differentiate this remedy from the others commonly used 
in these dyspeptic symptoms. The most important remedies besides 
Pulsatilla, having aggravation from eating fatty foods, are Ipecac, 
Thuja and Carbo veg. Arsenicum and Carbo veg. have aggravation 
from eating ice-cream, and Nux vomica and Ipecac, from partaking of 
a mixed diet, or aggravation from eating at night; in this condition^ 
you may think also of Cinchona. In desire for lemonade, compare 
Cyclamen, Sabina and Belladonna; nausea at the thought or smell of 
food, particularly if rich or fat, Sepia and Colchicum; in vomiting of 
food long after eating, Kreosote. 

Bryonia produces a catarrh of the stomach with white coated tongue, 
putrid taste in the mouth and a feeling as of a heavy load in the stom- 
ach. It may also be indicated in gastric catarrh brought on by chilling 
the stomach, although it is more suitable when the trouble has been 
brought on by the heat of summer weather. Bryonia usually, how- 
ever, has constipation as an accompanying symptom, or if it has diar- 
rhoea, it has not this yellowish-green or watery stool. Instead of this, 
the stools are papescent and have a putrid odor like old cheese. 

Nux vomica resembles Pulsatilla. Both are serviceable in catarrh of 
the stomach arising from overeating or from a mixed diet. Espe- 
cially is Nux indicated after indulgence in alcoholic drinks. Dryness 
of the mouth with little or no thirst and uncomfortable feeling about 
the stomach, are also found under Nux vomica. The bowels are con- 
stipated. Comparatively speaking, we may say that heartburn is 



PULSATILLA PRATENSIS. 35 1 

more characteristic of Pulsatilla and water-brash more characteristic of 
Nux vomica. The mental symptoms of the two remedies differ widely, 
and they should be easy to distinguish on this account. 

Antimonhim crudum resembles Pulsatilla, but the tongue under this 
remedy is coated white as though it had been whitewashed. Vomit- 
ing predominates over the other symptoms. A slight quantity of food 
excites nausea and vomiting. It is an excellent remed}^ in children. 

Ipecacuanha is a first-class remedy in these gastric catarrhs caused 
by chilling the stomach with ice- water or by eating pastry, confec- 
tionery or other indigestible substances. Usually the tongue is clean. 
It seldom has the thick coating belonging to Pulsatilla or Antimonium 
crudum, and nausea predominates over every other symptom. 

Arse?iicum is complementary to Pulsatilla when gastric catarrh 
arises from chilling the stomach with ice-cream or ice-water. 

Under Pulsatilla there is a sensation as of a stone in the epigastrium. 
You will find a similar symptom under Abies nigra, which has been 
successfully used in gastric troubles when the patient experiences a 
sensation as of a hard-boiled egg in the stomach after eating. 

You may use Pulsatilla in constipation occurring in pregnant women 
or following the abuse of Cinchona and its preparations. The stools 
are large, with much urging and backache, or they are insufficient 
and finally consist of nothing but yellow mucus. You may also use it 
for diarrhoea when the stools are of a greenish-yellow color or are 
very changeable. The trouble is usually caused by partaking of a 
mixed diet late the night before, and the symptoms are apt to be 
markedly worse after midnight. 

Here you should compare Iris versicolor, which is one of the best 
remedies we have for cholera morbus, coming preferably at two or 
three o'clock in the morning with vomiting of food and sour, bilious 
matters, accompanied by purging. It differs from Veratrum album in 
the absence of coldness and symptoms of collapse. 

In cystitis or catarrh of the bladder we find Pulsatilla indicated when 
there is frequent urging to urinate from pressure on the bladder as if 
the bladder were too full. There is pain in the urethra. The urine 
itself is often turbid from the admixture of mucus. Clinically, we 
have not found Pulsatilla a first-class remedy in cystitis, but we have 
found it almost always the remedy in cystic symptoms accompanying 
pregnancy. It yields to Cantharis, Equisetum and Dulcamara in cys- 
titis. 



352 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

Gonorrhoea calls for Pulsatilla when the discharge is thick, bland 
and yellow or yellowish-green. There are usually pains in the groins 
when this drug is indicated, and I have noticed, too, pains going 
across the hypogastrium from side to side, a symptom that has some- 
times been produced by overdosing with Pulsatilla. After giving it a 
few times in these cases, the patient returns, complaining of this ach- 
ing across the stomach. This symptom occurring thus, calls for the 
lengthening of the intervals between the doses, or else for its stoppage 
altogether. 

In suppression of gonorrhoea, Pulsatilla is indicated if orchitis, or 
rather epididymitis, ensues. The testicle is retracted, enlarged, very 
sensitive to the touch and the skin of the scrotum is dark red. There 
are sharp dragging pains following the course of the spermatic cord. 
Unless some other symptoms contra-indicate it, Pulsatilla will restore 
the discharge and relieve the distressing pain, but the patient must be 
kept quiet and the scrotum must be supported in a suspensory. In 
some cases I have used hot water locally as an adjuvant. While it 
seems to increase the swelling, it relieves the pain. 

In some of these cases there appears to be an absence of symptoms 
of a subjective character. All you can observe is that the testicle is 
swollen and exquisitely sore to the touch. The gonorrhoeal discharge 
has almost if not entirely ceased. In these cases Hamamelis is your 
remedy. 

Clematis is an excellent remedy for gonorrhoeal orchitis when the 
testicle is indurated and is "as hard as a stone." 

Rhododendron also is a useful remedy when the orchitis becomes 
chronic and the testicle is indurated exactly like Clematis. Under 
Rhododendron, however, the testicle tends to atrophy. There is also a 
feeling in the gland as if it were being crushed. 

In induration of the testicle you may compare Conium, Arnica, 
Staphisagria, Spongia, Aurum metallicum, besides the remedies already 
mentioned. You may give Oxalic acid when there are terrible neu- 
ralgic pains in the spermatic cords, worse from the slightest motion, 
and even on thinking of them. 

Ustilago and Hamamelis also cause neuralgia of the testicle. 

Mercurius is called for when the glands are swollen, and when what 
little discharge remains is greenish, and when there is phimosis. 

Pulsatilla is of use in enlargement of the prostate. It is indicated 
by the mechanical symptom, faeces, when they escape, are small and 
flat. 



PULSATILLA PRATENSIS. 353, 

Hydrocele, especially the congenital form, may yield to Pulsatilla: 

Next let us study Pulsatilla in its relations to synovial membranes- 
Pulsatilla has not an affinity for the true serous membranes, as we 
found under Aconite and Bryonia, but it acts on the synovial sacs, 
which are slightly different from the pure serous membranes. The 
remedy is indicated in rheumatism of the joints, and in gouty, gon- 
orrheal and traumatic synovitis. The joint is, of course, swollen, 
and the pains are of a sharp stinging character, and are accompanied 
by a feeling of soreness or of subcutaneous ulceration about the affected 
joint. The pains in these joint inflammations are usually erratic, now- 
here and now there. The tearing pains in the joint force the patient 
to move the affected part. Pressure relieves. These tearing pains 
often extend down the limb, and are accompanied by jerking, probably 
through irritation of the muscular nerves, and are relieved by slowly 
moving about. I dwell upon these pains because the} 7 so frequently 
call for Pulsatilla. They are usually worse from warmth, and are re- 
lieved by cold. They are worse in the evening. 

Pulsatilla rivals Apis in synovitis, but the latter drug has more effu- 
sion than the former, and is indicated when there is a great deal of 
oedema about the joint. 

Ledum and Lac caninum have pains worse from warmth. In the 
former they travel downward; in the latter they shift from one limb 
to the other and back again. 

In rheumatism with erratic pains, you may compare Kali bichromi- 
cum, Sulphur and Bryonia. 

Chamomilla has stitching pains, jumping from place to place, worse 
in the knees and ankles, but they are accompanied by numbness and 
a sense of weakness. The temperament is totally unlike that of 
Pulsatilla. 

Kali bichromicum is called for in gonorrhceal rheumatism. The- 
pains are better in a warm room. 

By reason of its action on the digestive organs, Pulsatilla becomes of 
value in gout or in the gouty diathesis, especially when the trouble 
has been brought on by indigestion. If the disease persists despite its- 
use, Colchicum follows well. 

Now let us consider the action of Pulsatilla on the various organs. 

We have already studied the mental symptoms of the drug. We have 

yet to speak of its headaches. These we may summarize as being 

mostly frontal and supra-orbital. They are generally of uterine,. 

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354 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

neuralgic, rheumatic or gastric origin. They are aggravated by men- 
tal exertion and by warmth. They are usually worse in the evening, 
although the gastric symptoms are worse in the morning. When of 
rheumatic origin, the pains are sharp and seem to go from the head 
into the face and almost drive the patient mad, so severe are they. 
In other cases they may be erratic, wandering from one part of the 
head to the other. 

In some cases the headache accompanies menstrual suppression. 
The head is hot. The pain in the head is better in the open air and * 
is often accompanied by nose-bleed. 

In these headaches you should compare Pulsatilla with the follow- 
ing remedies: 

Ranunculus bulbosus, headache on the vertex as if the head were be- 
ing pressed asunder, worse in the evening and on going from cold to 
warm air and vice versa. 

Ranunculus sceleratus, gnawing in the vertex in a small spot. 

Cocculus Indicus, pain in the occiput as if it were opening and shut- 
ting. 

Spigelia, sensation as if the head were open along the vertex. 

Carbo animalis, feeling on the vertex as if pressed asunder; must 
'hold it together. 

Veratram album, pressure on the vertex, with pain in the stomach; 
head relieved by pressing the vertex, and aggravated by motion. 

Menyanthes , compressive headache in the vertex and sensation when 
ascending steps as if a weight pressed on the brain, better from press- 
ure, and accompanied by cold hands and feet. 

Phellandrium, pain as from a weight on the top of the head, with 
.achixig and burning in the temples and above the eyes, which are con- 
gested; eyes water; can bear neither light nor sound. 

The eye symptoms of Pulsatilla, and some of those of the ear, have 
already been considered. We shall now proceed with the remaining 
ear symptoms. Pulsatilla has long been known as a remedy for otitis 
externa or inflammation of the external auditory meatus. The pains 
are very severe, as indeed they must be from the confined nature of 
the canal, surrounded as it is by bone. The external ear is swollen 
and red. The pains are usually worse at night. The trouble may end 
with otorrhoea, which has the character already described. 

We come next to the action of Pulsatilla on the female organism. 
It is here that Pulsatilla has won its laurels. W T e find it indicated in 



PULSATILLA PRATKNSIS. 355 

•girls at the age of puberty, when the menstrual flow has not estab- 
lished itself normal^, or has not appeared at all. It is especially at 
this time that 3 T ou may find soreness of the apices of the lungs, calling 
for Pulsatilla, and you know that unless you remove this symptom 
and establish the menstrual flow, your patient will have some form of 
phthisis. When the menses are established the} T are apt to be too late 
and too scanty. The flow is fitful in its character, now coming on and 
now stopping, now appearing as dark clotted blood, and again as an 
almost colorless watery flow. It is preceded by menstrual colic. The 
pains are of a crampy, griping character, and so severe that the patient 
can hardly bear them. She almost smothers if the room is close. She 
has the Pulsatilla temperament well-marked. Amenorrhcea ma3' call 
for Pulsatilla when it occurs during the ordinary period of menstrua- 
tion, or as a result of wet feet, and when nose-bleed acts vicariously 
for the menses. In some of these cases a single dose will bring on the 
menstrual flow, while in others you are obliged to give the drug re- 
peatedly. 

During pregnane)' you may find use for Pulsatilla. Soreness of the 
uterus and of the abdominal walls may call for it as well as for Hama- 
melis. 

Then again it may correct malpositions of the foetus in utero, if the 
cause is not mechanical. Now I know that in making this statement 
I am venturing on debatable ground. I do not mean to say that Pul- 
satilla will make the foetus turn around. But I do mean to say that 
Pulsatilla will act on the muscular walls of the uterus, and stimulate 
their growth. Sometimes the uterus in its growth during pregnancy 
develops more on one side than another. Hence there is irregularity 
in its development, and the foetus must assume an irregular position. 
Pulsatilla, by alteriug the growth of the uterus, permits the foetus to 
assume its proper position. 

During labor Pulsatilla is called for when the pains are slow, weak 
and ineffectual. Then, again, we may find the pains spasmodic and 
irregular, and they may even excite fainting, as in Nux vomica. The 
patient feels as if smothering, and calls on you to open the windows. 

Again Pulsatilla may be called for after labor when the placenta re- 
mains adherent. In these cases it w T ill not only bring about release of 
the placenta, but will so tone up the uterus as to avoid post-partum 
haemorrhage. Cantharis and Gossypium are also useful in this con- 
dition. 



356 A CUNICAI, MATKRIA MKDICA. 

Again Pulsatilla is many times the remedy in simple retained pla- 
centa, which allies it with Sepia, Sabina, Secale and Caulophyllum. 

Pulsatilla may also be used for after-pains, the temperament agree- 
ing. These pains, however, call more frequently for Chamomilla, 
Caulophyllum and Xanthoxylum. The last two remedies are particu- 
larly useful. 

Cuprum metallicum is a good remedy for severe crampy after-pains 
in women who have borne many children. 

Pulsatilla may also be used for scanty or suppressed lochia. 

It may also be indicated as frequently as Hamamelis in phlegmasia 
alba dolens, or "milk-leg." 

The mammary glands are affected by Pulsatilla before, during, and 
after pregnancy. It is indicated when mechanical irritation, as, for 
instance, carrying school-books, excites the flow of milk. After labor 
you may still give this remedy when the breast is swollen and painful 
and the flow of milk scanty or absent, the patient being gloomy and 
tearful. 

In this connection I may mention several remedies that are more 
important than Pulsatilla. I think that Urtica urens is the best rem- 
edy for non-appearance of the milk without any other symptoms, there 
being no apparent reason for the agalactia. 

Still another remedy is Ricinus communis or castor oil. This has, 
when used externally, developed milk. It may also be successful 
when given internally in low potency. 

Agnus castus is useful in agalactia when the mind is greatly de- 
pressed. 

Causticum is called for in women of a rheumatic diathesis. The 
face is usually sallow and the patient gloomy and depressed. 

In its relation to diseases of women, Pulsatilla has a great many 
allies. First of all we may mention Actea racemosa or Cimicifuga. 
This remedy resembles Pulsatilla because it acts on the uterus. Both 
remedies favor normal labor. Here Actea is probably the superior of 
the two. It also resembles Pulsatilla in its action during labor, being 
indicated for labor-pains which are very distressing. The symptoms, 
however, are not intermittent, but rather continuous, and as to tem- 
perament, we find Actea racemosa differing from Pulsatilla. For in- 
stance, it is indicated in a high degree of nervousness, both during 
labor and out of labor, during which the woman has an intensely 
apprehensive mood. She has a dread or fear of something about to 



PULSATILLA PRATENSIS. 357 

"happen, and this haunts her from day to day. At other times she has 
a dread of undertaking anything, even ordinary work. Actea race- 
mosa is also indicated in any deviation from normal in the position of 
the uterus when there are sharp cutting pains across the hypogastrium 
from side to side. It is also to be used for neuralgia reflex from uter- 
ine irritation, and that, too, whether it be the nerves of the head, chest 
or limbs that are involved. 

Another remedy to be compared with Pulsatilla is Caulophyllum . 
This is a remedy that we have not had many years, and yet it is so 
useful that we would not now be able to get along without it. Its 
main characteristic is intermittency of pains. If they are neuralgic 
and reflex from uterine disorder, they are intermittent in character. 
They are usually sharp and crampy, and appear in the bladder, groins 
and lower extremities. During labor Caiilophyllum is indicated when 
there is extreme uterine atony. The pains may be as severe as ever, 
yet there is apparently no expulsive effort. It is often indicated in 
nervous women in whom pain seems to be intolerable. The pains are 
spasmodic and fly about from place to place, now in the groins, then 
in the abdomen, and next in the chest, never going in the direction 
of the normal pains. The patient seems to be exhausted. There is 
great exhaustion of the whole system. She can scarcely speak at 
times, so weak is the voice. These are symptoms which indicate 
Caulophyllum. It has been used here by most physicians in the low 
potencies, although all potencies may be used. It may also be indi- 
cated during the last weeks of pregnancy when the patient suffers 
from false labor-pains, these consisting of painful bearing-down sensa- 
tions in the hypogastrium. I have known a single dose to stop them 
after they had lasted for hours. 

I have next to speak of Helonias dioica, or the false unicorn, one of 
the order of Liliaceae. This is one of the new remedies, and it is one 
which has proved itself worthy of a place by the side of the well-tried 
Pulsatilla. It is serviceable in females who are run down as to their 
nervous system; who are easily fatigued by any work and who com- 
plain of a tired backache, this tired feeling extending into the limbs. 
They seem to feel better when they are working than they did when 
they commenced to work. Now this is not the Rhus tox. condition. 
It is not due to a limbering up of stiff joints as under the latter rem- 
edy. The reason for the symptom is, that some of the languor passes 
off as the patient continues her labors. The backache is usually 



358 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

situated in the lumbar region just over the site of the kidneys, or it 
may appear lower down and affect the sacral region. Pain in either of 
these locations may accompany uterine disturbances. You will find 
also that Helonias is useful for suppression of the menses (here it is 
closely akin to Pulsatilla) , when the kidneys are congested. It seems 
as if the monthly congestion, instead of venting itself as it should 
through the uterine vessels, has extended to the kidneys, giving rise 
to albuminuria. The urine is scanty and turbid. Then, again, you 
find Helonias called for after confinement, when there is a tendency to 
prolapsus and other malpositions of the uterus. The patient complains 
of heaviness and dragging in the pelvic region. There is a sensitive- 
ness which has been expressed as ' ( consciousness of the existence of a 
womb." You know that we are not conscious of our internal organs. 
They move and perform their respective functions without any sensa- 
tion. The minute our sensations tell us that we have a stomach or 
liver, that minute we begin to have disease there. Accompanying 
these symptoms of prolapsus and of uterine over-sensitiveness is apt 
to be too long-lasting lochia, if I may -use that term. To be more ex- 
act, I should say that there is a sanguineous discharge, which con- 
tinues for weeks after confinement. I can recall a case which I treated 
last winter. It was that of a lady who gave birth to a very large 
child, and suffered afterward from prolapsus uteri. I gave her sev- 
eral remedies without relieving her, so that at the end of three months 
she was still uncured. About this time she began to complain of 
tightness across the chest, with cough and some little bloody sputum. 
Her mother had died of phthisis after giving birth to twins, so I feared 
serious lung affection. Phosphorus did no good; Nux did no good. I 
studied up the case more thoroughly. She told me that she felt as 
though there were a heavy weight over the chest on the sternum, and 
a feeling as though the chest had been gripped in a vise with the sore 
feeling which follows. This annoyed her when she awakened at 
night. These symptoms were symptoms which had been noticed only 
in the male provers of Helonias. Nevertheless I gave that drug, and 
it entirely removed both the chest symptoms and the prolapsus. 
Then, again, under Helo?iias you frequently find a tendency to inflam- 
mation of the vulva and vagina with formation of pus. You may also 
use it in ulceration of the cervix uteri. With this there is a leucor- 
rhoea which has a bad odor, and every little exertion tends to produce 
a flow of blood. With these symptoms there is almost always. 



PULSATILLA PRATEXSIS. 359 

persistent itching about the genitals with or without the formation 
of blisters or sores. We know little or nothing concerning the value 
of Helonias during labor. 

A drug to be placed by the side of Helonias is Senecio aureus. This 
drug causes inflammation of mucous membranes, hence it is useful 
when there is a tendency to catarrh of the nose, throat and lungs, par- 
ticularly in women. It is especially suited to nervous, excitable 
women who suffer much from sleeplessness, traceable to uterine 
irritation, as from prolapse or flexion of the uterus. The patient suf- 
fers from scanty menstruation, and she is apt to be tearful. There is 
dry teasing cough, with stitching pains in the chest and blood-streaked 
sputum. The bladder sympathizes with the uterine disease. There is 
much pain at the neck of the bladder causing burning and tenesmus. 
After the onset of the menstrual flow the chest and cystic symptoms 
become modified or cease, thus showing how intimately they are re- 
lated to the irregularity in the menstrual effort. 

Another drug is Aletris farinosa. This is one of the most bitter 
substances known. It is closely allied to Senecio and Helonias. In 
allopathic parlance it is a "tonic." It is especially useful in women 
who, in addition to uterine trouble and leucorrhoea, have extreme con- 
stipation, great effort being required to effect an evacuation from the 
bowels. There is great accumulation of frothy saliva. Aletris is a 
remedy also for weakness of digestion; food distresses the patient and 
lies heavily in the stomach. 

Cyclamen is very similar to Pulsatilla. The}- are both suited to 
chlorotic and anaernic women, and they both have some trouble with 
the digestion, and intolerance of fatty foods. The menstrual colic and 
irregularities are almost identical in the two drugs. The same kind of 
melancholy is common to both. Cyclamen may be distinguished from 
Pulsatilla by the following symptoms. Generally, but not always, 
there is more thirst with the Cyclamen patient. The Pulsatilla patient 
feels better in the open air, the Cyclamen does not. The Cyclamen 
patients suffer from a peculiar kind of torpidity, both of mind and 
bod}-, with languor. They cannot think. They are better when 
aroused and forced to exercise, something like Helonias. When 
they get up in the morning they feel so heavy and languid that they 
feel as though they could scarcely go through the day's duties, but 
when they once get to work they go on tolerably well until night time.. 
That is Cyclamen, and it is very much like Helonias. They suffer, 



360 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

too, from dulness of the senses with flickering before the eyes. You 
often find this in weak anaemic women. They see various colors be- 
fore the eyes, very much as under Sa?itonin, Conium, Kali bichromi- 
€um } etc. Sometimes the}^ have half-sight. The indigestion with 
which they are troubled has this to characterize it: formation of flatus 
which causes colic at night, forcing the patient to get up and walk 
about till the flatus passes and gives relief. 

It yet remains for me to speak of Hydrastis Canadensis. This is a 
remedy which acts even more powerfully on mucous membranes than 
does Pulsatilla. It causes catarrh of the mucous membranes of the 
nose, stomach, bowels, bladder, uterus and vagina, the discharge, how- 
ever, being more acrid than it is under Pulsatilla, and of a thick yellow 
or bloody appearance; in uterine affections Hydrastis is indicated for 
prolapsus uteri with ulceration of the cervix. The leucorrhoea is 
watery at times, and a,t other times thick, yellow and excoriating; this 
condition being associated with gone, weak feeling at the pit of the 
stomach and well-marked palpitation of the heart. The tongue is 
moist, and coated a dirty yellow color, and takes the imprint of the 
teeth. The face is sallow, and the eyes are sunken and surrounded 
"by dark rings. The bowels are apt to be constipated, the stools being 
coated or intermixed with mucus. 

lastly may be mentioned Lilium tigrinum, which helps in uterine 
complaints when there are sharp pains across the abdomen from one 
ilium to the other; in addition there are marked bearing-down pains, 
making the patient cross her limbs. She places her hand over the 
vulva to support the viscera. 

Pulsatilla cures a fever with these symptoms: the head is hot and 
the lips are dry; the patient is constantly licking his lips to moisten 
them, yet he does not wish to drink. It may also be used in intermit- 
tent fever after the abuse of quinine when thirst appears at two or 
three o'clock in the afternoon; then comes chill without thirst, and 
anxiety and oppression from venous congestion of the chest. The 
patient is sleepy, yet she cannot sleep. Sometimes one hand is hot 
and the other cold. 

Pulsatilla acts on the larynx, causing hoarseness which comes and 
goes capriciously. Such a hoarseness frequently marks the termina- 
tion of a " cold," and this remedy may prevent its becoming chronic. 
It also cures purely nervous hoarseness appearing with every emotion. 

In the chest we again have symptoms of a catarrhal nature. 



PULSATILLA PRATENSIS. 36 1 

Bronchitis with thick yellow expectoration; or dry, tickling cough 
from irritation in the trachea, worse in the evening and on lying 
down, with dry air passages or a scraped, raw feeling. Occasionally 
there is dyspnoea or constriction of the chest. 

I warn you not to select Pulsatilla for a loose cough unless you are 
sure that all the symptoms of the case call for it. It often tightens 
such a cough without curing it. 

Bloodspitting has already been mentioned. This may be vicarious 
or it may belong to incipient consumption. In the latter case there 
may be added soreness in the chest, worse under the clavicles; burn- 
ing in the chest, especially in the region of the heart; stitches in the 
sides of the chest. 

Pulsatilla Nuttalliana has sharp pains below the left arm-pit near 
the back. 

In dry night-cough compare Hyoscyamus, Comum, Actea racemosa, 
Laurocerasus , B?yo?iia, etc. 

Pulsatilla is indicated in measles, but I think that it is often given 
in the wrong place. It is indicated when the catarrhal symptoms are 
prominent and we have coryza and profuse lachrymation. The cough 
is usually dry at night and loose in the day time. The child sits up 
in bed to cough. It may also be used when there is earache. Do not 
give Pulsatilla in the beginning when the fever is high. You should 
begin the case with Aconite or Gelsemium. The eruption may come 
out to its full extent or it may have a dusky appearance. 

Kali bichromicum is to be used when, instead of simple catarrh of 
the eyes, you have pustules developed on the cornea. The throat is 
swollen and pains go from the throat into the ears; the saliva^ glands 
are swollen, and there is catarrhal deafness. 

In neuralgia, Pulsatilla is indicated when the pains are jerking, er- 
ratic and paroxysmal, and as they continue they become more and 
more unbearable. 

Spinal irritation is also an indication for the drug. The neck, and 
in fact the whole body, feels as stiff as a board. The small of the back 
feels as if tightly bandaged. There are pains in the sacral region, 
worse on sitting and when bending backward. The joints feel weak, 
as if they would become readil}* dislocated. Rest relieves these symp- 
toms, hence the patient is better after sleep. 

In backache, worse from sitting, you may think of Zincum, Cobalt, 
Sepia, Cannabis I ndica, Agaricus, Berberis, Rhus to x., Valerian, etc. 



362 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

The sleep symptoms of Pulsatilla are very characteristic. The sleep 
is restless with frequent waking and troubled dreams; on waking the 
patient is dull and listless. 

In sleep symptoms Pulsatilla and Nux vomica differ very much. 
While the former is wide awake and full of ideas in the evening, Nux 
is sleepy in the evening. The Nux patient awakes at three or four 
o'clock in the morning feeling rested. Then he goes to sleep again 
and awakes at the usual time feeling a great deal worse. 

Cocculus has sleeplessness from pure mental activity. Ailments fol- 
low very slight deprivation of sleep. 

Sulphur has " slightest noise at night awakens the patient." 



LECTURE XXXV. 



RUBIACE^. 



Cinchona. 
Ipecacuanha. 
Coffea. 
Rubiacese. { Rubia tinctoria. (Madder.) 
Galium. (A red dye. ) 
Mitchella. 
i Gambier. 

To-day, gentlemen, we have before us an order of plants from 
which we derive three very valuable drugs, Cinchona, Ipecacuanha and 
Coffea. This order also gives us Gambier (a drug not used in our 
materia medica) and Mitchella, besides several dyes, as the famous 
Madder and Galium. 

From the fact that these dyes are red, the order derives its name. 

The first drug on the board is the Cinchona, frequently, although 
improperly, called China in our nomenclature. ' We shall now proceed 
with its consideration: 



Cinchona Rubra. 



Cinchona. ■< 



'Ipecac, Arsenicum, Ferrum met., Veratrum album,. 
Carbo veg. 

Phosphoric acid, Phosphorus, Rhus tox., Bryonia, Pul- 
satilla. 

Nux vomica, Podophyllum, Eupatorium perf., Natrum 
mur. 

Chininum sulph., Aranea diadema. 

Eachesis, Cornus florida, Eucalyptus. 

> Pulsatilla, Arsenicum, Ipecac, Veratrum album. 

< Selenium, Digitalis. 



364 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 



Iyoss of fluids. 

Anaemia. 

Ill-effects of sudden or acute diseases. 

Haemorrhage. 

Fevers: malarial, intermittent, hectic. 

Digestive organs. 

Rheumatism. 

Neuralgia. 



Cinchona. 



Cinchona is certainly a wonderful drug, wonderful in the many va- 
rieties of its species, wonderful in its composition and wonderful in its 
effects. It also has a historical value to homoeopathists as being the 
drug which led Hahnemann to the discovery of the law of cure and 
enabled him to establish Homoeopathy as a fixed science. It is not a 
little singular that the natives of Peru, especially in the early days, 
would not permit the Cinchona tree to be touched, as they believed it 
to be poisonous and under the charge of special gods. They were, 
therefore, greatly astonished when Europeans became engaged in the 
occupation of stripping the bark from the trees and exporting it to 
Europe. The Cinchona industry has now grown to such an enormous 
extent as to demand certain restrictions in its gathering and exporta- 
tion lest the species become extinct. New trees are being continually 
planted, so that there is no danger of extermination of the drug. 

There are several varieties of the Cinchona bark, of which, however, 
I can mention but three, namely, the pale bark, the Calisaya or yellow 
bark, and, lastly, the red bark, or Cinchona rubra. There are some 
thirty other species known. 

A physician in the West, the value of whose experiments I am in- 
clined to doubt, claims to have discovered in Cinchona rubra a certain 
specific against intemperance, or the thirst for liquor. He gives the 
bark in appreciable doses, and claims that in a time varying from one 
to four weeks it will cure the most confirmed inebriate of his per- 
nicious appetite. 

In publishing the accounts of his observations in the journals, he 
says that he was led to his discovery on treating an "old sot " who 
had never known a sober day until he had chills and fever, which was 
cured by red bark. 

Cinchona contains a number of alkaloids which are closely related 
chemically; in fact, many of them are isomeric. They are associated 
with various organic acids peculiar to the group. 



RUBIACE^. 365 

The most important of the Cinchona alkaloids are given below: 

Quinine, C 20 H 24 N 2 O 2 . 
Quinidine, C 20 H 24 N 2 O 2 . 
Cinchonine, C 20 H 2i N 2 O. 
Cinchonidine, C 20 H 24 N 2 O. 
Quinamine, C 20 H 24 N 2 O 2 . 
Quinic acid, C t H 12 O e . 
Cincho-tannic acid. 
Ouinovic acid, C 24 H 38 4 . 

It now remains for us to study the general effects of Cinchona before 
we proceed with our consideration of its symptomatology. 

It has been determined that a solution of Quinine of one part to ten 
thousand acts destructively on bacteria and infusoria. Thus it will 
destroy the poisons that propagate many of the contagious diseases, 
as puerperal fever, scarlatina, etc. You may make use of this prop- 
ert}' when going from one case of puerperal disease to another, for if 
you bathe your hair and whiskers in a solution of Quinine \n bay-rum, 
this will destroy all danger of carrying the contagion and will not 
prove a source of annoyance to yourselves. On the contrary, it will 
aid the growth of the hair and beard. 

Qui?iine and its salts when topically applied to a denuded surface or 
to a mucous membrane, act as decided irritants. 

Quinine also has a toxic action upon all protoplasm. It is particu- 
larly active in preventing amoeboid movement, which, as you know, 
is possessed by the leucocytes. This is one reason why allopathic 
physicians have used it to prevent inflammation. Quinine also inhib- 
its enz3 T tne action, thus retarding tissue metabolism. That is one ex- 
planation of its tonic effect. You will see, however, that this prop- 
erty of retarding waste is still more marked in Coffea. 

Quinine also acts upon the heart substance, weakening that struc- 
ture. Thus there is impaired circulation. 

Another effect of Qui?iine is that large quantities injected subcuta- 
neously destroy the oxygenating power of the blood. Furthermore 
it has the ability to reduce hyperpyrexia. This appears to be accom- 
plished mainly by a direct action on the heat-producing foci. 

It also tends to act on the spleen, producing congestion, inflamma- 
tion and enlargement of that viscus. 

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366 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

remember, and that is its power of abolishing reflex action when taken 
in large quantities. 

Now let me give you the symptoms of cinchonism, that is, the 
symptoms which follow the excessive use of Cinchona bark or of Qui- 
nine. You will find prominent among these symptoms an increase of 
appetite from stimulation of digestion. Soon nausea and vomiting 
appear, and even diarrhoea may be added to the gastric disturbances. 
Then the head becomes affected. There is a peculiar sensitiveness to 
external impressions, to noises, to bright lights or to anything that is 
apt to render the patient irritable. There is experienced a peculiar 
form of headache, which is characterized by dull aching and at other 
times by throbbing in the head. There are well-marked ringing or 
roaring sounds in the ears, a very characteristic effect of Cinchona. 
Vertigo still further complicates the case. If the use of the drug is 
still persisted in, deafness follows. 

In other cases there appears a sort of Cinchona intoxication which is 
not unlike that produced by alcohol. This is followed by delirium, 
dilated pupils, then complete stupor with difficult respiration and 
finally convulsions, these convulsions arising from anaemia of the nerve 
centres and not from congestion, as is the case with Belladomia. In 
extreme cases collapse and death from paralysis of the heart end the 
patient's life. These, then, are the general effects of Cinchona, when 
that drug is given persistently in increasing doses and at short inter- 
vals. They may vary in severity from a simple ringing in the ears to 
all the symptoms of complete poisoning. 

Hahnemann has taught us that Cinchona is useful only when de- 
bility or anaemia comes from loss of fluids. In the allopathic school 
it is used in all forms of debility, given either alone or in combination 
with iron or sherry wine. But, as I have said before, we have learned 
from Hahnemann that it is useful only in the anaemia which results 
from loss of fluids. Hence, you may use it for the results of haemor- 
rhage, whether it be from the mouth, lungs or uterus. You may use 
it when long-lasting diarrhoea has exhausted the patient. It may 
even be used when the condition has proceeded further than a simple 
debility, and that horrible disease known as hydrocephaloid has de- 
veloped. 

In such cases, when Cinchona is the remedy, the child has these 
symptoms: after violent or long-lasting cholera infantum, it becomes 
drowsy; the pupils may be dilated, the breathing is very rapid and 



RUBIACE^. 367 

•superficial; the diarrhoea may have ceased, or the movements may be 
involuntary; the surface of the body is rather cool, especially the 
prominent features about the face; thus, the ears, nose, and chin are 
cold. In just such cases as this, Cinchona will, if there is any vitality 
remaining, restore the patient to health. 

If it should fail, you may still fall back on Calcarea phosphorica, a 
similar but more deeply-acting drug. 

In applying Cinchona to the debility resulting from sexual excesses, 
remember that it is only curative for the debility resulting from the 
excessive loss of semen. If there are constitutional troubles it is worse 
than useless. 

Now let us pause and stud}^ the relation which Cinchona bears to 
other drugs applicable to debilitated and anaemic conditions. 

Ferrum is indicated in pure anaemia, with an appearance of plethora. 

Arsenicum is the remedy for debility resulting from overtaxing of 
the muscular tissues, such as follows prolonged exertion, climbing 
mountains, etc. 

Phosphorus is preferably indicated in prostration which is very sud- 
den in its onset, when the nervous system is exhausted. Hence, we 
may have to use this drug in a variety of diseases, in scarlatina, in 
measles, in diphtheria, and, in fact, in any disease in which the nerv- 
ous system seems to have sustained a sudden shock or blow. This is 
not a Cinchona case, remember. 

Phosphoric acid is somewhat different from Phosphorus . It is to be 
thought of in debility of nervous origin, when it is not connected with 
an} 7 pain except, perhaps, a simple burning in the spine or in the 
limbs. The mind is rather apathetic, and the patient is inclined to be 
drowsy and sleepy. The characteristic of this sleepiness is that he is 
easily aroused from it and is wide awake. 

Zincum is good when the brain becomes affected in the course of 
nervous diseases, scarlatina or summer complaint of infants. Espe- 
cially is it useful in scarlatina when the child has not sufficient strength 
to develop an eruption. 

You may use Cinchona for haemorrhages, and here you can scarcely 
do without the drug. The haemorrhage ma) 7 come from any orifice of 
the body; the blood is apt to be dark and clotted; the flow is so pro- 
fuse as to have almost produced exsanguination of the body; there is 
coldness of the face, of the whole body in fact; the features show the 
presence of collapse; there is gasping for breath; the patient demands 



368 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

to-be fanned. Now, this fanning is desired, not for the purpose of 
cooling the patient, but is called for because of the instinctive demand 
for more oxygen, which the fanning produces by changing the strata 
of air about the patient's head. Cinchona is frequently called for in 
ante-partum and post-partum haemorrhages; in such cases you do 
not give it in a single dose, but repeatedly, at short intervals, until 
the consequences of the hsemorrhage have been removed. 

There is another condition in which I would recommend Cinchona, 
and that is, when retained placenta is attended with haemorrhage- 
Pulsatilla does no good. I know that it has been recommended in 
these cases to take away the after-birth by manual interference, but it 
has been my practice to administer Cinchona until the tonicity of the 
uterus is restored, and then remove the placenta. 

The nearest remedy to Cinchona in these symptoms is Ipecacuanha > 
which is useful when there is profuse bright red flow of blood, usually 
accompanied by nausea, and sometimes by very hard, labored breath- 
ing. Sometimes there is coldness of the surface of the skin, which is 
covered with cold sweat. It is one of our best remedies in the haemop- 
tysis of incipient phthisis. 

Belladonna is useful when the haemorrhage is of bright blood, coagu- 
lating rapidly, and feeling hot to the parts over which it flows. 

Trillium controls haemorrhage when the flow is either bright red or 
dark, and occurs in women who flood after every labor. 

Millefolium is suited for a profuse, bright red flow, unattended with 
pain; it is much like Aconite, but it lacks the restlessness, anxiety and 
fever of that remedy; it has, also, continuous flow after an injury. 

Sabina is to be used when the flow is bright red with clots, and is 
worse from any motion. The haemorrhage is attended with pain ex- 
tending from the pubes through to the sacrum, and with pains in the 
legs. 

Carbo vegetabilis is to be given when there is a continuous dark 
passive haemorrhage. The patient wants to be fanned. The skin is 
cool and bluish, and the pulse rapid and weak. 

Secale is said to be best adapted to thin scrawny women. The flow 
of blood is passive; it is attended with tingling in the limbs. Although 
the surface of the body is cold, the patient persistently expresses her 
desire to be uncovered. 

Erigeron is said to be useful in profuse haemorrhage similar to that 
of Sabina, but associated with irritation of the bladder and rectum. 



RUBIACKiE. 369 

Hamamelis is suited to passive venous haemorrhages, especially 
when the part from which the flow of blood proceeds feels sore and 
bruised. 

Acalypha Indica is useful in haemoptysis after fits of dry coughing. 

Cinnamomum, profuse haemorrhage from a strain or misstep. 

Cyclamen, profuse haemorrhage, with dizziness and obscured vision, 
as from a fog. This is different from the natural syncope resulting 
from excessive or sudden bleeding. It may follow slight losses of 
blood in women of a delicate build, whose weakness is cerebro-spinal. 

You may also compare Ledum, Vinca minor and Phosphorus if the 
haemorrhage is caused by uterine polypi. 

When reaction has been established after haemorrhage, you may still 
give Cinchona if there is headache with violent throbbing of the caro- 
tid arteries. This is not a Belladonna symptom. It is here an indica- 
tion of anaemia, whereas under Bellado?ina, this symptom is indicative 
of hyperaemia. 

It is a general characteristic of Cinchona to produce a nervous ere- 
thism with its symptoms of debility, a fact which allies it more with 
Arsenicum than with the torpid Carbo veg. The mind is over-active, 
although lacking endurance. Ideas crowd on the mind in unwelcome 
profusion, preventing sleep. On closing the eyes he sees persons and 
figures. The surface of the body is sensitive to the touch. This 
susceptibility is more imaginary than real. If the patient has a slight 
pain he feels it unbearably, and he dreads the slightest attempt to ap- 
proach him lest you touch him, yet firm pressure or rubbing relieves. 
He exhibits a similar sensitiveness to a draught of air, which always 
makes him worse. These hints are appropriate to neuralgic and other 
pains. Arnica has this fear of being approached in gout; Spigelia has 
an actual sensitiveness of the whole surface, the least touch sends a 
sudden shock through the entire frame. 

You may have to use Cinchona to cure asthenopia, but only when it 
occurs as the result of haemorrhage or loss of fluids. An examination 
with the ophthalmoscope shows the disk to be pale and anaemic. The 
pupils are apt to be dilated; the eyes ache on attempting to use them, 
as in reading or writing, and objects appear blurred. 

We now come to the study of the action of Cinchona on the digestive 
organs. It is very useful for dyspepsia occurring especially after loss 
of fluids. Digestion is so weak that the stomach cannot tolerate any 
food at all. Should the patient's supper come to him later than usual 
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370 A CUNICAI, MATKRIA MKDICA. 

he is sure to suffer in consequence. The stomach is distended with 
flatus, but belching relieves only momentarily or not at all. The least 
food or drink taken increases this symptom, so that after taking but 
a small quantity, he feels full, as though he had eaten an enormous 
meal. He complains often after eating of a sensation as of a lump in 
the mid-sternum, as though food were lying there. This is situated 
higher up than is the "hard-boiled egg" sensation of Abies nigra. 
Pulsatilla also has the same sensation in the same locality. This state, 
when Cinchona is the remedy, is often the result of loss of fluids, drink- 
ing tea to excess, and beers, fruits, etc. The appetite is often vora- 
cious when not capricious; thirst for cold water; drinks little and 
often; longs for acids, brandy, sweetmeats; buzzing in the ears. 

Aconite has anxiety, relieved by very cold water or ice. Veratrum 
album desires ice-cold water. The following also crave cold water: 
Pulsatilla, Plumbum, Scilla. 

Cinchona is an excellent remedy in the gastric troubles of children 
who are continually asking for dainties, but who reject substantial 
kinds of food. On awaking in the morning they are cross and irrita- 
ble. They have a bad taste in the mouth and a white-coated tongue. 

Cinchojia is useful in some diseases of the bowels, especially when 
associated with marked tympany. The abdomen is enormously dis- 
tended; when you percuss it, it gives forth a sound almost like that 
caused by striking the tense head of a drum. It is particularly when 
this tympany occurs early in the disease that Cinchona does good; 
then this symptom shows early debility. I^ater in the course of the 
disease, when it results from decomposition, Cinchona is less valuable, 
and you must resort to such remedies as Terebinthina, Colchicum, etc. 

The diarrhoea of Cinchona is very characteristic. The stool is lien- 
teric in character. It is worse at night and after eating. This is 
attended with rapid exhaustion and emaciation. In appearance the 
stools may be yellow, watery or brown, and very offensive. Cinchona 
is one of our best remedies for diarrhoea occurring in hot weather after 
eating fruits. 

The nearest allies to the drug here are Ferrum metallicum, Arseni- 
cum album, Phosphoric acid, Oleander, Iris versicolor and Podophyllum. 

Arsenicum and Ferrum both have profuse lienteric diarrhoea, com- 
ing on during or after eating. 

Phosphoric acid differs from Cincho7ta in that, while the stools are 
frequent and copious, they are not attended with much debility. 



RUBIACE^. 371 

Iris versicolor is indicated in summer diarrhoea. The stools, are co- 
pious and are associated with vomiting. The patient is worse at about 
two or three o'clock in the morning. It differs from Veratrum album 
in the absence of coldness. 

Podophyllum . is to be used for profuse gushing diarrhoea, coming on 
in the morning, or more during the day than at night. The stools 
ma}^ contain undigested food and often, in children, deposit a mealy 
sediment. 

The Oleander diarrhoea is also lienteric. The patient passes in his 
stool the food which he had eaten the day before. 

Cinchona, as you all know, is a valuable remedy in the treatment of 
chills and fever. It is useful either in fevers of the tertian or of the 
quartan type. The chill is unaccompanied by thirst, but there is 
thirst either before or after the chill. During the chill the patient 
sits as near as possible to the fire or wraps himself warmly in blankets; 
but the warmth thus obtained does him no good. The chill is followed 
by long-lasting heat, during which the patient desires to uncover. He 
is then usually without thirst. His face is fiery red, and he is often 
delirious. The sweat which follows is profuse and debilitating, with 
intense thirst. The apyrexia is by no means free from symptoms. 
The face is sallow, dingy yellow, from bilious complications, the spleen 
is enlarged, and there are aching sore feeling in the splenic region and 
either total loss of appetite, or canine hunger. The feet become 
oedematous, sometimes from disturbance in the composition of the 
blood, but mostly from interference with the hepatic and splenic circu- 
lations. Sleep is greatly disturbed, and the patient, as soon as he 
closes his eyes, sees figures, etc., before him. 

The Sulphate of Qui?ii?ie has these same symptoms, with this in ad- 
dition, the chills recur with clock-like regularity, usually at 3 A. m., 
with blue nails, and pain in the dorsal vertebrae. But both drugs may 
be indicated in an anteponing type of fever. The heat is accompanied 
by excessive thirst and red face. The tongue is yellow down the cen- 
tre, with pale edges. The heat gradually breaks into a sweat which 
relieves. The patient is very weak between the periods. Cinchona 
and its preparations have been so much abused in the treatment of in- 
termittent fever that it is necessary to differentiate them carefully 
from their concordant remedies. 

First of all may be mentioned Coryius florida . This drug has sleepi- 
ness long before the chill; the patient feels chilly, but is warm to the 



372 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

touch; the heat is associated with drowsiness, and is followed by pro- 
fuse sweat. 

Menyanthes is excellent when the chill predominates, with icy cold- 
ness of the tips of the fingers; in fact, all peripheral parts of the body 
get cold. 

In Capsicum the chill begins in the back, with thirst. The patient 
feels better from heat applied to the back and from wrapping up, just 
as under Ignatia. 

Eupatorium perfoliatum is useful when the chill comes in the morn- 
ing, or in the morning of one day and in the afternoon of the next; 
the usual time, however, is nine o'clock in the morning. The chill is 
often preceded by thirst and bitter vomiting. The drinking of water 
makes the patient chilly. The fever is usually followed by very slight 
sweat. 

Lachesis may be used after the abuse of Quini?ie, when the chills 
return in the spring. 

Canchalagua is indicated in spring ague, with severe chill; the hands 
are puckered up like a washerwoman's. 

Eucalyptus is a remedy which has been highly recommended in 
malarial fevers, but I must say to you that I know little or nothing 
about it. 

Ipecacuanha is useful in intermittent fever when the type has been 
spoiled by Quinine. You can obtain no clearly defined picture of the 
case. Everything is confused. Ipecacuanha seems to have the prop- 
erty of developing the symptoms and of curing the case, or it provides 
you with sufficient data to enable you to select the appropriate remedy. 
The characteristic symptom of Ipecacuanha during the paroxysm is 
short chill, followed by long fever. Usually we find gastric symptoms, 
with a preponderance of nausea. 

Sepia is also to be thought of in cases that have been spoiled by 
Quinine or by bungling administration of Homoeopathic remedies. 

Another remedy which may be utilized for the removal of the bad 
effects of Quinine is Arsenicum album. It is called for when the parox- 
ysms occur more or less periodically. Thirst is great. The spleen is 
swollen. Dropsical symptoms appear. Paroxysms of neuralgia ap- 
pear in the face, and recur regularly. Arsenicum may be indicated 
when almost any form of disease assumes the malarial type. In these 
cases you will find the ordinary remedies of no value whatever. 

Still another remedy in severe cases is Carbo veg. This is especially 



RUBIACE^S. 373 

of service after the abuse of Qui?iine, when there is thirst during the 
chill; when the body is icy-cold, and especially is this coldness noticed 
from the knees down; and when there is lack of reaction. You will 
be surprised to see how nicely an apparently hopeless case will rally 
under one or the other of these remedies. 

There is a constitution developed by the marsh miasm for which it 
is necessary to use deep-acting remedies. Foremost among these 
stands Aranea diadema. This drug is suited to persons who may not 
have any distinct type of fever, but who suffer at every cold or damp 
change in the weather. The symptoms seem to be ill-defined. At 
one time they feel dyspeptic, at another they ache all over; but in all 
cases the constitutional taint is at the bottom of the whole trouble. 
Aranea diadema will so change the type of constitution that the pa- 
tient will escape any further injury when exposed to dampness. 
Malaria officinalis should be compared in this condition. 

In some cases you will have to use Ferrum metallicum as an antidote 
to Quinine, especially when we have the masked anaemia peculiar to 
this drug. The face is easily flushed, and the bloodvessels throb. 
The spleen is enlarged, and dropsical symptoms are manifested mostly 
about the feet. 

Cinchona — to return to that drug — is also of essential service in the 
treatment of hectic types of fever, such types of fever as indicate a 
long-lasting suppurative process. The surgeon is called upon to em- 
ploy this drug very frequently when, after emptying an abscess, symp- 
toms of hectic fever develop. The cheeks are red. The patient is 
excessively nervous, the nervous irritability being greatly dispropor- 
tionate to the patient's strength. He is so greatly prostrated by the 
fever that he can scarcely raise his head. Diarrhoea adds to his weak- 
ness. Copious night-sweats also exhaust him. Along with Cinchona 
in this connection you must place in your mind its analogues, which 
are chiefly Arsenicum album and Carbo veg. You will often meet with 
a severe case in which Cinchona runs its course, and no longer produces 
improvement. You will then have to select Arsenicum or Carbo veg., 
according to the symptoms of the case. 

Carbo veg., as well as Cinchona, is to be remembered as a remedy to 
prevent collapse following the opening of a cold abscess, such as 
occurs in spinal caries. The symptoms of the two remedies are almost 
identical, and your choice between them may be difficult unless you 
find other symptoms in the case pointing distinctly to one or the other 
drug. 



374 A CLINICAL MATERIA MBDICA. 

Psorinum, like Cinchona, is useful in some cases of night-sweats. 
It is indicated when profuse sweats occur after acute illnesses, as 
typhoid fever, etc. The patient is very despondent, hopeless of re- 
covery; remains weak, with trembling of the hands and weak back 
and joints. Sulphur is very similar. 

Another form of suppurative trouble in which you may use Cinchona 
is in suppuration of the lungs, particularly in drunkards, when the 
trouble is associated with hectic fever. 

You may also be called upon to use Cinchona in disorganized states, 
either of the external tissues or of the lung substance. In the latter 
case the remedy is indicated by the hectic symptoms and by the foetid 
breath. Here Cinchona vies with Arsenicum, Secale, and Lachesis. 

Do not confound the foetid breath just mentioned with that arising 
from certain forms of bronchitis, in which the sputum is retained a 
long time and undergoes decomposition in the lungs. While the pa- 
tient is breathing quietly you can notice no extraordinary odor. As 
soon as he gives a deep cough the breath becomes horribly offensive. 
This kind of cough calls for Capsicum, and, perhaps next in import- 
ance, for Sanguinaria Canadensis. 

You will find Cinchona often indicated in inflammatory rheumatism, 
not in the beginning of the disease, but later when the fever has be-^ 
come intermittent in its character. The joints still remain swollen. 
The characteristic pains in these cases are jerking and pressing. The 
patient will not permit you to approach, crying out with pain if you 
touch the affected parts, so exquisitely sensitive is the surface. Qui- 
nine sulphate is also useful in a similar condition. 

Ci?tcho?ia is also a neuralgic remedy. It is especially suited to neu- 
ralgia of the infraorbital nerve on either side when the symptoms are 
typical in their return, and when the slightest touch or draught of 
cold air makes the patient worse. If the neuralgia is of malarial origin 
Cinchona is increasingly indicated. 

You may here compare Cedron, which is applicable to malarial 
neuralgia, usually supraorbital, when the attacks return with clock- 
like regularity. 

In jaundice you should use Cinchona when the surface of the body 
and the sclerotica are yellowish. The liver is swollen and sensitive to 
the touch, and there is a feeling in the right hypochondrium as of sub- 
cutaneous ulceration. The stools are whitish, and are accompanied 
by foetid flatus, or else there is diarrhoea. It is especially indicated in 



RUBIACE^. 375 

jaundice arising from sexual excesses, from loss of animal fluids, from 
abuse of alcohol, and from gastro-duodenal catarrh. 

The antidotes to Cinchona are Arsenicum album, Ipecac, Carbo veg. y 
Lachesis, Pulsatilla, Ferrum metallicum and Verat7'um album. The in- 
dications for most of these have already been given you. 

Cinchona and Morphia are antagonistic in brain symptoms. 

Cinchona and Belladoiina are antagonistic in heart symptoms, tem- 
perature, etc. 



LECTURE XXXVI. 

IPECACUANHA AND COFFEA. 

Ipecacuanha. 

' Bry. , Puis., Nux v., Cinch. 
Ant. crud., Tabacum. 
Ars., Ant. tart., Veratr. alb. 

Ipecacuanha. \ ^ obelia infiata - 



V 
Cuprum met. 



>Tabacum, Ars., Nux v. 



Ipecacuanha ckphaeus is a small shrub growing in Brazil. It is 
bitter, acrid and nauseous, and possesses a peculiar odor which, in 
some persons, excites sneezing and even asthma. In many cases the 
conjunctivae are injected, with puffiness under the eyes, profuse coryza 
and tension over the eyes. 

Ipecacuanha contains as its active principle a substance called Emetin, 
which gives to the drug its property of producing vomiting. It also 
contains an acid called Ipecacuanhic acid, and a small quantity of a 
foetid volatile oil. The latter constituent probably has something to 
do with the action of the drug on the pneumogastric nerve and its 
consequent use in the treatment of asthma. Ipecacuanha is easily 
studied. It acts upon the nerves (especially the pneumogastric) and 
mucous membranes. It has been employed by allopathic physicians 
as an anti-spasmodic in asthma and in pulmonary catarrhs. In the 
latter class of troubles it is used to provoke vomiting, and, of course, 
gives temporary relief. 

Ipecacuanha seems to have a special affinity for the mucous mem- 
branes lining the bronchial tubes and alimentary canal. One of the 
most prominent features of this drug is its property of producing nau- 
sea and subsequently vomiting. So prominent is this symptom that 
you will find it present in almost all the cases in which Ipecacua?iha is 
required. 



IPECACUANHA. 377 

Studied more particularly, Ipecacuanha is found suitable for patients 
who are easily irritated, full of desires, but know not for what. If a 
child, the patient cries and screams almost continually. As an adult, 
he is irritable and morose, holding everything in contempt. 

Thus you will find Ipecacuanha indicated in headaches. These are 
of rheumatic origin. The characteristic sensation is a pain as if the 
head or bones of the head were bruised or crushed, this feeling seem- 
ing to go down into the root of the tongue. This headache is accom- 
panied by nausea and vomiting. Ipecacuanha may also be used in uni- 
lateral sick headaches with deathly nausea. In these cases the face 
is usually pale, blue rings surround the eyes, and the expression about 
the mouth betrays the intensity of the nausea. Now, these symptoms 
are not so necessarily present in the adult as they are in the child. 
You see the corners of the child's mouth drawn, and a line extending 
from the alse of the nose to the corners of the mouth, giving to the 
child an expression of nausea, and at once suggesting to your mind 
such remedies as Ipecacuanha, Antimo?iium tartaricum and especially 
SEthusa cynapium. 

In that bursting headache of Ipecacuanha compare Veratrum album, 
which has that bruised feeling here and there in the brain. There is 
still another drug which has this symptom, and that is Ptelea. 

The gastric symptoms of Ipecacuanha, in addition to those already 
mentioned, are such as would call for the exhibition of this drug after 
indulgence in rich food, such as pastry, pork, fruits, candy, ice-cream, 
etc. Nausea is constant with all complaints; vomiting of bile; vomits 
just after eating (like Arsenicum); vomits after eating rich or indi- 
gestible food; vomiting of mucus; morning sickness. The tongue is 
usually clean, a symptom which differentiates Ipecacuanha from Nux 
vomica, Antimonium crudum, etc. Distress in the stomach; it feels re- 
laxed as if hanging down (like Staphisagria, Theine, Lobelia, 
Tabacuni) . 

These gastric symptoms of Ipecacuanha should be compared with 
those of three other remedies, the most important of which is Pulsa- 
tilla. You will at once recognize the similarity of the two drugs. 
They are both useful for gastric disturbances caused by indulgence in 
mixed diet, pastry, ice-cream, pork, fatty food, etc. Pulsatilla may 
be considered the better remedy of the two early in the attack, when 
the stomach still contains the food which disagrees, while Ipecacu- 
a?iha is better when the stomach is empty and the effects only of the 



37§ A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

indulgence remain. The best distinction between the two remedies, 
however, lies in the condition of the tongue. In Ipecacuanha, the 
tongue, as above stated, is clean or only slightly coated, whereas in 
Pulsatilla the tongue is almost always foul, white or yellow, with a 
very disagreeable taste in the mouth. 

Arsenicum album must follow or supplant Ipecacuanha, when an actual 
catarrh of the stomach has been produced by indigestible food, espe- 
cially after sudden chilling of the stomach with ice-cream or ice- water. 
There are vomiting, burning pains in the stomach, diarrhoea, restless- 
ness, etc. 

Antimonium crudum, like Ipecacuanha, is suitable for gastric catarrh, 
following a mixed diet of pastry, etc. The tongue is thickly coated 
white, as if it had been whitewashed. 

Ipecacuanha may be indicated when, in the case of children, indul- 
gence in rich food has produced convulsions. It may even be useful 
in the convulsions of teething children, or convulsions following sup- 
pressed eruptions, cold, etc. They are of the rigid tetanic form. 
Sometimes the rigidity alternates with flexing of the arms and jerking 
of the arms toward each other. 

Colic may occur, and this is of a griping character. Either the pain 
is situated about the umbilicus, as though a hand were tightly clutch- 
ing the intestines; or the colic consists of cutting pains which shoot 
across the abdomen from left to right. The stools are either green, as 
in diarrhoea of infants, or they are yellow and liquid, and covered with 
mucus and blood. Sometimes they have a fermented appearance and 
look like molasses. That is as good a comparison as I can give you; 
the stool looks just like molasses when it is frothy. At other times 
the stools are black from admixture of bile. Some of these diarrhoeas 
are associated with tenesmus, indicating catarrh of the lining mem- 
brane of the bowels. 

Ipecacuanha is frequently indicated in the commencement of cholera 
infantum. You find present pallor of the face, with blue rings around 
the eyes; the fontanelles are still open, showing defective nutrition; 
the child may have nose-bleed with the pale face; it is drowsy, with 
starting and jerking of the muscles during sleep. The child is sub- 
ject to frequent attacks of nose-bleed. The condition already simu- 
lates that of hydrocephaloid. You must not think because Ipecacuanha 
is associated so closely with stomach symptoms, that it cannot be indi- 
cated in this reflex cerebral state. You will find nausea and even 



IPECACUANHA. 379 

vomiting usually present. The child eats or drinks and vomits what 
it has taken almost immediately afterward. Particularly is Ipecacuanha 
indicated in these cases as a remedy preceding the exhibition of Arsen- 
icum album. Arsenicum, as already indicated, is complementary to 
Ipecacuanha in these abdominal affections. 

In some of these cases of gastro-intestinal troubles in children Ipecac- 
uanha and the other remedies just mentioned will sometimes fail you. 
Then it will be well for you to bear in mind the following remedies, 
which, though infrequently indicated, may prove themselves to be of 
inestimable value. 

Oenothera biennis, the evening primrose, commonly seen in the fields 
and waste places, is an invaluable remedy in exhausting, watery diar- 
rhoea. It does not act, as has been suggested, as an astringent, by its 
tannic acid, but is a genuine homoeopathic remedy, producing and 
curing diarrhoea. The evacuations are without effort, and are accom- 
panied by nervous exhaustion, and even by incipient hydrocephaloid. 

Gnaphalium causes a watery, offensive morning diarrhoea, which 
recurs frequently during the day. The provers were children, and 
well have they portrayed a very common group of cholera infantum 
symptoms. They had rumbling in the bowels, colicky pains, and 
were, at the same time, cross and irritable. The urine was scanty, 
and the appetite and taste were lost. A writer in the Homceopath 
mentions having used this drug very successfully, and Dr. Hale refers 
to it in his Therapeutics. 

Geranium maculatum is also a successful baby's remedy. Dr. Hale 
devotes eight pages to Geranium and other astringents, dividing their 
action according to his rule of primary and secondary symptoms, and 
deducing thence two propositions for use in practice. The provings, 
brief though they are, help us in the choice of the drug; constant de- 
sire to go to stool, with inability for some time to pass any faecal mat- 
ter, then the bowels move without pain or effort; mouth dry; tip of 
the tongue burning. The Allopaths use Geranium as an astringent. 

Paullinia sorbilis has been suggested for diarrhoea, which is green 
and profuse, but odorless. 

Opuntia comes to us recommended by so careful an observer — Dr. 
Burdick — that, although I have not used it, I do not hesitate to pre- 
sent it anew. Nausea in stomach and bowels; feels as if the bowels 
were settled down into the lower abdomen (confined in adults). In 
infants we may, perhaps, look to this drug when the lower part of the 



380 A CIvINICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

abdomen is the seat of disease, as this seems to be its characteristic 
seat of attack. 

Niiphar luteum causes a yellow diarrhoea, worse in the morning, 
either painless or with colic. It has been employed for diarrhoea dur- 
ing typhoid, and indeed seems to cause nervous weakness. Whether 
it will be of service for infants remains to be seen. We should look 
to it when Gamboge, Chelidonium , etc., fail, and when exhaustion is a 
prominent attendant. 

Kali bromatum has been given successfully several times in cholera 
infantum, when there were great prostration, cool surface and symp- 
toms of hydrocephaloid. Compare Cincho?ia (incipient hydrocepha- 
loid, following prolonged or oft-repeated diarrhceic discharge), Calca- 
reaphos., Carboveg., Veratnim album, Camphor, etc. 

Returning now to Ipecacuanha, we should note another effect of the 
drug which is just as characteristic as its action on the bowels, namely, 
its action on the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract. Thus it 
may be used in coryza. The nose feels as if stuffed up; there is often 
epistaxis, loss of smell, nausea and some catarrh of the bronchial mu- 
cous membrane. 

You may compare here Allium cepa, which is an excellent remedy 
for simple nasal catarrh when the nasal secretion is watery and acrid 
and the lachrymation mild. There are rough raw feeling in the throat 
and cough provoked by tickling in the larynx. I may say in qualify- 
ing these symptoms of Allium, that although it quickly stops the nasal 
catarrh, it frequently seems to drive the trouble to the chest. Phos- 
phorus appears to stop this action of Cepa. 

Euphrasia is very similar to Cepa in nasal catarrh. Here, however, 
we have excoriating lachrymation and bland nasal discharge. 

Arsenicum album follows Ipecacuanha, in the catarrhs of fat, chubby 
children. 

Affecting prominently, as Ipecacuanha does, the pneumogastric 
nerves, we should expect it to be useful in affections which involve 
these nerves, such as asthma, in which disease it is indicated when 
there is a sensation as of constriction of the chest, worse from the least 
motion. When the patient coughs you hear the rattling of mucus in 
the chest, yet none is expectorated. Especially will you find this kind 
of asthma calling for Ipecacua?iha in stout persons of lax fibre, either 
adult or child, who are particularly sensitive to a warm moist atmos- 
phere. 



IPECACUANHA. 381 

Very similar to Ipecacuanha in asthma is Arsenicum album, which 
often follows it well either in catarrhal or nervous asthma. 

Cuprum metallicum is useful in asthma when the spasmodic element 
predominates. The face gets blue; there is constriction of the throat; 
the patient almost goes into convulsions. 

Another drug closely allied to Ipecacuanha is Lobelia inflata. This 
has, with the asthma, a weak sensation in the epigastrium, spreading 
Wp into the chest, nausea, profuse salivation and a feeling as of a lump 
in the stomach. 

Ipecacua?iha is one of the best remedies we have for capillary bron- 
chitis in infants, especially if caused by the kind of weather I have 
described. There is a great accumulation of mucus in the chest. The 
examining ear hears rales all through the chest, both anteriorly and 
posteriorly. The cough is spasmodic and usually attended with vom- 
iting of phlegm. There may be fever and Ipecacuanha still be indi- 
cated. The child may have difficulty in breathing from the marked 
accumulation of mucus in the chest. In such cases, I have used the 
remedy in all potencies; that is to say, from the third to the twenty 
thousandth, and I have been well satisfied with its action. When 
Ipecacuanha is indicated, the stage for giving Aconite has passed, be- 
cause exudation has begun. If you adhere to the principles of homoe- 
opathy, you will not give Aconite and Ipecacuanha in alternation. Af- 
ter giving Ipecacuanha, you will notice that the mucus does not adhere 
so firmly to the walls of the bronchial tubes, but it becomes less tena- 
cious and is raised more readily. 

Let me warn you that there are two or three changes of symptoms 
which will call for concordant remedies. One of these changes calls 
for Antimonium tartaricum, and that is when the cough grows less and 
less frequent, the quantity of mucus in the chest not diminishing in 
amount. The infrequency of the cough is not a good symptom, al- 
though the mother will think so. The chest is so filled with mucus 
that the child cannot cough. He grows more and more drowsy. In 
giving Antimonium tartaricum in these cases, give it in frequent doses 
until the cough increases. 

Another change calls for Phosphorus. This should be given when 
the inflammatory symptoms increase, the substance of the lungs be- 
comes involved and pneumonia supervenes. Then Ipecacuanha ceases 
to be the remedy. Any one who practices in the colder parts of 
the country will find these catarrhs frequent, and with Aconite, 



382 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

Ipecacuanha, Antimonium tartaricum and Phosphorus, he can manage 
the great majority of his cases. 

Still other remedies may be needed. In some cases Aiitimonium 
tartaricum, though apparently well indicated, fails to control the symp- 
toms. Then we may have recourse to Sitlphur, which produces in the 
healthy a catarrh of the bronchial mucous membrane with loud rales 
all through the chest, particularly in the left lung. Especially is it 
indicated when there is atelectasis. I have used Sulphur with great 
success in just such cases. 

Another remedy is Terebinthina , which I have used when the child 
was drowsy and the lungs seemed to be all clogged up. The urine is 
apt to be scanty and dark from the admixture of blood. Terebinthina 
must be given repeatedly. 

Still another remedy is Lycopodium, which affects more markedly 
the right lung. Loud rales are heard all through the affected part. 
The expectoration is yellowish and thick. 

We may be called upon to give Ipecacuanha frequently in whooping- 
cough, by virtue of the spasmodic character of the cough and the 
action of the drug on the pneumogastric nerve. You will find in addi- 
tion to the symptoms already mentioned, that spasmodic convulsive 
symptoms are present. During the cough the child stiffens and be- 
comes rigid from tonic spasm of the extensor muscles; loses its breath 
and turns pale or blue in the face. Finally it relaxes and vomits 
phlegm, which of course relieves. While Ipecacuanha is of excellent 
service here, you are reminded of two other drugs which are similar. 

One of these is Cina, which I must ask you to remember as being 
something more than a mere worm remedy. This remedy is useful in 
whooping-cough with the same kind of rigidity that I have described 
for Ipecacuanha, but there is in addition a clucking sound in the 
oesophagus as the child goes out of the paroxysm. If in addition to 
this symptom you also have grinding of the teeth, Cina is certainly a 
better remedy than Ipecacuanha. 

Cuprum metallicum is the complement of Ipecacuanha in spasmodic 
affections and in whooping-cough. It is especially indicated in con- 
vulsions from worms and during the course of whooping-cough. 
Spasms of the flexors predominate. 

In fevers we may use Ipecacuanha, especially in those of an inter- 
mittent type. It is one of the best drugs to give when your case is 
mixed up. It is particularly indicated when there is a short chill, 



COFFEA. 383 

followed by long fever with nausea and vomiting, especially after the 
abuse of Quinine. 

Ipecacuanha is an excellent drug for hematuria, for haemorrhage 
from the kidneys when the trouble is attended with nausea, oppression 
of the chest, hard breathing, and cutting pains in the abdomen. 

In some cases those who work in Ipecacuanha are affected with a 
violent inflammation of the conjunctiva. Now this fact led Jousset 
to apply the drug in the treatment of ophthalmia, and he claims many 
cures with it in the intense conjunctivitis of scrofulous children. 
There are tearing pains in and about the eyes and copious lachryma- 
tion. Tears gush forth ever}' time the lids are separated. When, 
however, there is marked keratitis, he prefers Apis. 

In closing let me give you the Ipecacuanha temperament. Studied 
as a homoeopathic remedy, you will find it indicated in patients who 
are full of desires they know not for what. The child cries and 
screams continually. The adult is irritable and morose, holding every- 
thing in contempt. 

Bismuth seems to hinder the action of Ipecacuanha. 

Opium increases its action on the bronchial mucous membrane. 

COFFFA ARABICUM. 

Coffea is extensively used as a beverage. Its alkaloid, Caffeine, is 
identical chemically with several others, such as Theine, the active 
principle of tea, and is related chemically to the purin bodies, xanthin, 
uric acid, etc. 

Caffeine lessens the amount of urea excreted in the urine. It is use- 
ful when there is an extra drain on the system, particularly after hard 
work in hot weather, at which time the system is doubly exhausted 
by the fatigue and the heat combined. 

Then a cup of coffee is a very good thing. So, too, it may be used 
after loss of sleep, when fatigue is more marked than it is after labor. 
Other things being equal, coffee is not so useful for the young as for 
the old. A man in active business life or one who works hard all day, 
or an elderly man in whom waste is out of proportion to repair, finds 
great benefit from coffee. In fact, it is almost instinctive on the part 
of workmen to fall back on coffee as a beverage, because it gives them 
what their food will not, a certain amount of strength and an antidote 
to the wear and tear of labor. 



384 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

The effects of Caffeine on the system bear a certain resemblance to 
Strychnia. It seems to excite reflex action, and, if persistently given, 
tetanus as well. It produces sudden starting from the slightest touch 
of the surface of the body (like Strychnia), and increased suscepti- 
bility to all external impressions. This increased ' ' excito-motor " 
action explains many of its symptoms. Violent emotions, whether 
of pleasure or of pain produce symptoms. Patients experience sudden 
joy, and they are at once sick from the excitement. They awaken 
at night without any desire whatever to return to sleep. 

Coffea also produces an ecstatic state of mind. Here it finds a con- 
cordant remedy in Cypripedium. Especially is the latter remedy indi- 
cated in children who awaken at night from sleep, and are unnaturally 
bright and playful, and evince no desire to go to sleep again. Such 
symptoms are often preliminary to some brain affection, which the 
timely use of Cypripedium may avert. 

Apoplectic congestion may be cured by Coffea, particularly if an ex- 
cited state of the mind has been the cause of the excessive fulness of 
the cerebral blood-vessels. So, too, an animated conversation in which 
the party interested becomes greatly warmed up and has cerebral con- 
gestion will call for Coffea. This remedy is of value, however, only 
in the beginning of these cases; then it is all-sufficient. But if the. 
trouble goes on to effusion (not inflammatory effusion, but effusion of 
serum by oozing through the distended capillaries), you must have 
recourse to Belladonna, Bryonia or some remedy more adapted to effu- 
sion than is Coffea. 

Coffea is also a remedy in eruptive diseases, when the eruption 
keeps the patient awake on account of the excessive itching and burn- 
ing of the skin; the patient scratches even until the parts bleed. This 
symptom is due, in the Coffea case, to the hypersensitiveness of the 
skin. 

Moreover, Coffea has fear of death, thus allying it with Aconite; 
this fear usuallly being present with the severe pains. All pain in 
the Coffea patient is intolerable. Kven a slight pain causes great com- 
plaint and crying and whining. 

Coffea is often indicated in the toothache of children and of nervous 
people. Sometimes you will be led to give Chamomilla in these cases. 
You find the mental symptoms indicating that drug, yet it does no 
good, or it affords but partial relief. You may give Chamomilla when 
the face is red, when the child cannot bear the least pain and is cross 



COFFEA. 385 

and irritable, and when cold water in the mouth relieves for an in- 
stant. But if cold water relieves permanently, Cofiea is the remedy. 

The senses are all too acute under Coffea, not only the sense of touch 
but that of sight and of hearing also. Under the stimulating influ- 
ence of this remedy the patient may see fine print with a degree of 
distinctness altogether unnatural. Distant noises seem to be mag- 
nified. 

Coffea has a condition almost the reverse of the hypersesthetic state. 
It results from the secondary or depressant action of the drug. 

In its effect upon the circulation, at first it seems to increase the 
frequency of the pulse, showing that there is increased action of the 
heart. This is followed later by cardiac depression, with palpitation 
and irregular pulse. It must be remembered that this increased fre- 
quency of the pulse is not attended with an increase of force, as under 
Aconite, Bryonia and Baptisia. So you see that the stimulation is not 
genuine. On the contrary, it weakens the heart muscle, so that after 
awhile, if this drug be given long enough, or if coffee be indulged in 
as a beverage to excess, the heart exhibits a tendency to dilate. 

We find Coffea also indicated in diarrhoea, particularly that occur- 
ring among housewives; those who have a great deal of care and 
trouble in the management of the household. 

Remember also the use of Coffea for fatigue arising from long jour- 
neys, especially during hot weather. 

I wish to mention two or three other drugs analogous to Cojfea, 
that have recently been proved. Piper methysticum, also called Kava- 
kava and Awa-samoa, is largely used in Polynesia as a beverage. It 
has also been proved as a medicine. Its effects seem to be something 
like those of coffee, for it produces at first a feeling of buoyancy or 
tension, as though every nerve were " strung-up " to its highest pitch. 
The prover feels that he can work hard without fatigue. If these 
effects reach their extremes, there is a feeling of mental tension as 
though the head were large, almost full to bursting. There is dizzi- 
ness also; dizziness on closing the eyes or on directing the attention 
to any object. The vessels of the brain, and particularly those about 
the base of the brain, feel full, as if ligated (that is the symptom given 
in the language of the prover). Thus far you see it is somewhat sim- 
ilar to Coffea. But the secondary action quickly follows the use of 
Piper, and this reverse effect is characterized by what we may call 
brain-fag. The brain feels tired on awakening, as one feels after 

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386 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

being out late at night and losing considerable sleep, or after a hard 
night's study. There is heavy, dull aching in the head, which is 
worse from reading, thinking or any use of the mind. The mental 
symptoms, be they those of excitement or of depression, are relieved 
by diversion of the mind. Further than this, Piper seems to produce 
convulsions, and it has cured them. The spasms simulate those of 
catalepsy. The mind is tired and yields to the least pressure. There 
is over-sensitiveness to all external impressions. 



LECTURE XXXVII. 



SCROPHULARIACE^, 



Scrophulariacege 



f Myrica cerifera. 
| Spigelia. 
Kalmia. 
j Helleborus. 
^ < China. 



Digitalis. 

Gratiola. 

Leptandra. 

Euphrasia. 

Verbascum. 

Linaria. 



From this order of plants we obtain Digitalis, Gratiola, Leptandra 
Virginica, Euphrasia, Verbascum and Linaria. These drugs are not 
all thoroughly proved, but those that are well known are sufficiently 
distinct to be easily remembered. The most important member of the 
group is the 



Digitalis Purpurea. 

Digitalis contains among other ingredients two substances, one 
known as Digitalin, the other as Digitoxin. The latter is found in 
larger quantity than the former. Digitalin has been proved separately 
from the Digitalis. Its symptomatology, however, is, like most other 
active principles, very nearly identical with that of the original drug. 

Digitalis produces, very early in the proving or in poisoning cases, 
among other symptoms, the most distressing nausea and vomiting. 
This emesis is often accompanied by a deathly faint, sinking sensation 
at the pit of the stomach. The surface of the body is often cold, and 
sometimes covered more or less with cold sweat. The pulse is irregu- 
lar. These early symptoms of Digitalis remind one of several other 
drugs, notably, Antimonium tartaricum, Tabacum and Lobelia. It is 



388 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

probable that these drugs and Digitalis all cause this nausea and vom- 
iting by affecting the base of the brain, acting there upon the pneu- 
mogastric nerves as they leave their origin. Such symptoms as this 
deathly nausea and vomiting might suggest the use of Digitalis in the 
vomiting attendant upon cerebral disease; in meningitis, for instance, 
whether the meninges of the cerebrum alone, or of the cerebrum and 
cord combined, were involved in the inflammation. 

The drug may even be used in the nausea and vomiting of preg- 
nancy, and in the incipiency of abortion. One of the provers, a preg- 
nant woman, took an overdose of Digitalis, and in consequence was 
seized with this same deathly nausea and a flow of blood from the 
vagina. 

We may also study Digitalis in its action on the heart. Through 
irritation of the pneumogastric nerves we have inhibition of the heart's 
action. As a consequence of this effect of the drug, the pulse becomes 
slow. Arterial tension is greatly increased, probably owing to the 
action of the drug on the vaso-motor centre, which is supposed to be 
at the base of the brain; the pulse is, therefore, primarily slow and 
strong. In addition to the effect of the drug on nervous structure, we 
must remember that it also affects muscular tissue, both of the striated 
and non-striated varieties. Thus it causes weakness of the cardiac 
tissues. This weakness varies in intensity from simple weakness to 
complete paralysis of the muscular fibre. Consequently, we may very 
soon have added to these other symptoms, weakness of the pulse. 
Every little extra exertion, such as that incurred while rising from a 
sitting to a standing posture, increases the rapidity of the pulse, but 
the force of the beat is diminished. This quick pulse may become 
irregular and even intermittent. With this view, then, of the physi- 
ological action of the drug, you may understand the following symp- 
toms of the heart and respiration connected therewith. 

But first let me here give you a word of caution respecting the use 
of Digitalis in heart affections. The tendency of this drug, like that 
of Lachesis and Arsenicum album, is downward. You must not use it, 
therefore, indiscriminately or carelessly, but only when you are guided 
to its selection by the symptoms of the case, or you will certainly make 
your patient worse. In organic diseases of the heart, Digitalis must 
be used with extreme caution, because it may hasten the period when 
nature is no longer able to compensate by hypertrophy of the heart- 
muscle for the interference in the circulation. Nature thus may be 



SCROPHULARIACE^. 389 

compelled to give out. Then the heart yields to the pressure of the 
blood within its cavities and begins; and we shall have the train of 
symptoms which I intend to describe to you shortly, as belonging to 
Digitalis. This warning is particularly applicable to the use of the 
drug in large doses. Given thus it may relieve for a time, but it only 
hastens the fatal end. With this word of warning I now proceed to 
give you in detail the heart symptoms of Digitalis. 

The heart feels as though it stood still, and this sensation is attended 
with great anxiety. There is a sort of indescribable uneasiness in the 
cardiac region, which may be expressed as a sense of oppression or 
tightness about the heart, or as an uneasy feeling with weakness and 
numbness in the left arm. There is a feeling of goneness or sinking 
at the epigastrium. This is sometimes relieved by eating, but often 
comes on worse after eating, particularly after breakfast. There are 
sharp sticking pains in the region of the heart. Sometimes there is 
choking when trying to swallow, from reflex spasm of the glottis. 
The pulse is slow, often slower than the beating of the heart. In 
these cases the heart beats so imperfectly that some of its pulse waves 
are not transmitted appreciably to the radial artery at the wrist. Any 
movement such as rising from a chair, getting out of bed, or increas- 
ing the speed in walking, increases the rapidity of the pulse but causes 
no increase in the force of its beat. The irregular distribution of the 
blood caused by these alterations in the heart's functions is exhibited 
in a variety of sympjtoms. In extreme cases, for instance, we find 
even cyanosis, which suggests Digitalis as a possible remedy for cyano- 
sis neonatorum. The child turns blue and falls into a syncope on the 
slightest motion, or else it becomes deathly sick, as you see from the 
expression of the face and from the involuntar}^ gagging. If you can 
feel the pulse, you will find it irregular both in rhythm and volume; 
the surface of the body is cool. The borders of the lips are blue or 
purple. The child is blue around the eyes. The veins wherever they 
show through the skin are seen to be dark. 

Other and more common illustrations of the irregular distribution 
of the blood may be shown in the sleep. The patient's sleep is un- 
comfortable and restless. He dreams a great deal; he starts up from 
sleep dreaming that he is falling from a great height. Sometimes he 
awakens with an anxious or distressed feeling, which he may be 
unable to locate, but which results from the cardiac affection. Men- 
tally, the Digitalis patient, besides being anxious, has those gloomy 



39° A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

forebodings incident to heart disease. He has an apprehensive feel- 
ing, ill-defined it is true, yet none the less terrible. He is apt to be 
sad and depressed, as well as anxious. The respiration is of course 
affected by this action of the heart. We frequently find the breathing 
deep, sighing and slower than normal. This symptom is almost pa- 
thognomonic of heart affection. There is often a desire to take a deep 
breath, but an attempt to do so seems to result in only half-filling the 
lungs, which do not expand to their full capacity. This is often at- 
tended with dry cough, which seems to be excited by deep inspiration. 
The deeper he attempts to breathe, the more likely is he to cough. 
This is altogether a bronchial symptom, and comes on from an over- 
filling of the blood-vessels there. Suffocative spells with painful con- 
striction of the chest, as if internal parts of the chest were grown 
together, are not uncommon. Sometimes these attacks force the 
patient to sit up in order that he may breathe. If these cardiac symp- 
toms are present you will find Digitalis indicated in several varieties of 
disease starting remotely from the heart, and yet depending for their 
existence either directly or indirectly upon the disease of that organ. 

In almost all the affections in which Digitalis may be used there is 
present either a slow pulse or a feeble pulse, becoming irregular or 
quick. 

For instance, dropsy may call for Digitalis. This dropsy is not of 
renal origin. You would hardly think of Digitalis in dropsy resulting 
primarily from a liver or kidney disease, but in that form occurring 
primarily from cardiac debility, it is at times an invaluable remedy. 

Digitalis may be used with profit in a number of forms of dropsy. 
You may give it in anasarca when the surface of the body is bluish, 
rather than of the alabaster-like appearance characteristic of renal 
dropsies. Local dropsies, too, are present. Thus you find Digitalis 
indicated in hydropericardium, and even in hydrothorax and ascites, 
if they are connected with heart disease. In dropsies of the chest 
there is a remedy that is often forgotten, and that is the Sulphate of 
Mercury or Mercurius sulphuricus. Especially is this remedy useful 
when the chest-dropsy occurs from heart or liver disease. When the 
drug acts well it produces a profuse watery diarrhoea, with great relief 
to the patient. A very common form of dropsy calling for Digitalis, 
is infiltration of the tissues of the scrotum and penis. We may even 
use Digitalis in hydrocele when the cardiac symptoms calling for the 
remedy are present. The urine is often suppressed or very scanty. 



SCROPHULARIACK^. 391 

This deficiency in the renal secretion depends upon disordered circu- 
lation, and not upon primary disease of the kidneys. The urine may 
be dark red or albuminous. 

We find Digitalis causing some liver symptoms which are worthy 
of notice. I think, however, that Digitalis has no direct action on 
the hepatic cells; it does not appear to affect the bile secretion directly. 
But in jaundice, in which the primary trouble is a cardiac disease of 
the type already mentioned, with ashy white stools, Digitalis certainly 
acts admirably. The liver is enlarged and feels sore, as if bruised. 
Objectively examined, it is found to be somewhat indurated. With 
this symptom we have jaundice. The taste is bitter, or at other times, 
sweetish. The tongue may be perfectly clean, or it may be whitish- 
yellow. The pulse is slow, even slower than the beating of the heart. 
Drowsiness may supervene and even increase to stupor. The stools 
are of the character above mentioned. The urine is high-colored from 
admixture of bile pigment. The jaundice calling for Digitalis is not 
that which follows retention of bile or is caused by catarrh of the duo- 
denum or by some obstruction of the biliary ducts, but it is due to an 
actual functional imperfection of the liver, that organ not taking from 
the blood the elements which go to form the bile. 

A remedy which here compares favorably with Digitalis is Myrica 
cerifera, which has the following symptoms. First, despondency, 
which depends upon the disordered condition of the liver. The symp- 
toms of Myrica are similar to those of Digitalis because in each case 
the jaundice is due to the imperfect formation of bile in the liver, and 
not to obstruction of the flow. But the two remedies are ver}^ different 
in their absolute effects on the system. With Digitalis, the jaundice 
is traceable to the condition of the heart. With Myrica, the case 
seems to be functional rather than organic. For some reason the bile 
is not properly formed, and therefore its elements remain in the blood. 
The heart is affected secondarily, slowness of the pulse thus being pro- 
duced. The S3'mptoms calling for Myrica are these: Despondency, 
dull, heavy headache, worse in the morning; the eyes and sclerotic 
have a dirty, dingy, yellowish hue, the lids themselves being abnor- 
mally red; the tongue is coated a dirty yellow. Weak sinking feeling 
in the epigastrium after eating. The patient is weak and drowsy, 
and complains of muscular soreness and aching in the limbs. The 
pulse is slow but intensified. The stools are ash colored. The urine is 
dark and turbid. You recognize at once the resemblance to Digitalis; 



392 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

but it is more superficial in its action than is that remedy, and would 
not be suitable for so violent a case as the latter. 

In heart affections you may compare Digitalis with a number of 
remedies, notably, with Kalmia, Arsenicum album, Helleborus and 
Conium. 

Kalmia latifolia is a drug which belongs to the order Ericacecs, with 
Rhododendron, Ledum palustre and other remedies. It is a valuable rem- 
edy in rheumatism when it affects the chest. The pains in the Kalmia 
affection of the heart are sharp, taking away the breath; the patient 
almost suffocates, so severe are they. The pains shoot down into the 
abdomen or stomach; the pulse is slow, almost as slow as that calling 
for Digitalis. Kalmia is especially useful when gout or rheumatism 
shifts from the joints to the heart, especially after external applica- 
tions to the joints. I refer here especially to the application to the 
joints of substances that are not homoeopathic to the case. If you 
were giving Arnica internally and applying it locally, and if it were 
the indicated remedy, there would be no danger of metastasis. But if 
some one were to apply the tincture of Aconite to the affected joint 
there would be danger of the inflammation travelling to some more 
vital part. The Kalmia rheumatism, unlike that of Ledum, usually 
travels downward, thus following the direction of its pains. 

Helleborus is similar to Digitalis in the slowness of the pulse. The 
respiration is also slow and the temperature of the body is greatly 
diminished, often being as low as 95 or 96 F. There is generally 
cerebral disease. 

Spigelia also must be compared with Digitalis. It has the follow- 
ing symptoms. Sharp pain shooting through the heart to the back, 
or radiating from the heart and down the arm or over the chest and 
down the spine; great oppression or anxiety about the heart; palpita- 
tion of the heart worse from any movement of the arm or body; thrill- 
ing or purring sensation felt over the cardiac region (this is just such 
a thrill as you feel when stroking a cat's back when the animal is 
purring); blowing sound over the heart. You will find Spigelia indi- 
cated when these heart symptoms accompany other affections, for in- 
stance, neuralgia, particularly if it affects the left side of the face, 
commencing in the occiput and settling over and in the left eye. That 
is the Spigelia headache. Its aggravation follows the course of the 
sun. It commences in the morning, reaches its acme at noon, and 
diminishes toward night. You may also use it in ciliary neuralgia 



SCROPHU^ARIACE^. 393 

with these accompanying sympathetic symptoms of the heart. Sharp 
pain shoots through the eyeball and radiates in all directions, almost 
driving the patient mad. At other times there is a sensation as if the 
eye were being squeezed in a vise or as if it were enormously enlarged 
and were being pushed out of the head. It is one of the chief reme- 
dies to be thought of in iritis with excessive pain. I wish also to 
mention a symptom for Spigelia that the late Dr. Jacob Jeanes con- 
firmed many times, and that is intermittent pulse. He prescribed this 
remedy as an intercurrent, in many varieties of disease, when the pulse 
assumed this character. 

Convallaria majalis presents heart symptoms associated with uterine 
symptoms; soreness in the hypogastrium; pain in the sacro-iliac syn- 
chondrosis, extending down the leg. Itching of the meatus urinarius 
and vulva. 

Another remedy is Magnolia gra7ialiflora , which has sadness; nerv- 
ousness; weak heart, with sensation of constriction in the cardiac 
region; worse on walking fast; and at times the sensation as if the 
heart stopped beating. 

It will not be unprofitable for us next to study the action of Digitalis 
on the brain. It causes symptoms which are very much like those of 
meningitis, even meningitis with effusion, or of hydrocephalus, and 
also of cerebro-spinal meningitis. The symptoms from which you will 
have to decide are these: there is throbbing headache, which is re- 
ferred to the forepart of the head; delirium, which may be so violent 
as to simulate mania; decided errors in vision; bright balls of fire ap- 
pear in the field of vision, or, like Santonin, objects appear of various 
colors, as yellow or green. Still later, as the trouble progresses, men- 
tal confusion increases and amaurotic congestion of the retina takes 
place; the pupils become dilated and fail to respond to light, and 
finally coma appears. There is great general prostration with cold- 
ness of the body, which is covered with a cold sweat. Even in these 
forms of cerebral disease, when Digitalis is to be your remedy, the 
pulse comes in as your chief guide. If the symptom, buzzing in the 
ears, should suggest Cinchona, I entreat you not to give it after Digi- 
talis, for Hahnemann tells us that, although there is a similarity in 
the cerebral symptoms and in the weakness, yet the drugs are inimical. 

Lastly we shall speak of the action of Digitalis on the urethra and 
genital organs. Digitalis produces a catarrhal irritation of the blad- 
der, particularly about its neck. There are strangury and frequent 



394 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

urging to urinate, especially when the patient is standing or sitting; 
pressure on bladder not relieved by urinating. The patient may also 
have frequent urging to urinate at night. The urethra is inflamed so 
that we have burning in the urethra with purulent discharge, thick in 
character and bright yellow in color. Now, if you combine these 
symptoms with another one, namely, that the glans penis becomes in- 
flamed with copious secretion of thick pus over its surface, you have a 
perfect picture of Digitalis in gonorrhoea. This form of the trouble, 
Digitalis will cure, whether the pulse be slow, fast, soft, weak, or 
what not. Often, too, when Digitalis is indicated in this trouble, you 
will find the prepuce puffed up and infiltrated with serum. Let me 
say, in passing, that if the prepuce becomes indurated, Digitalis will 
do no good, but Sulphur will. 

The nearest remedy to Digitalis in gonorrhoea is Mercurius. This 
is a good remedy for gonorrhoea associated with inflammation of the 
prepuce, but with less oedema and more dark purplish swelling of the 
parts with phimosis or paraphimosis. 

Mercurius corrosivus is good in these cases when the glans has a dark 
red or gangrenous appearance. 

In the beginning of these cases of paraphimosis, we may give Colo- 
cynth, which will sometimes relieve the spasm and enable the prepuce^ 
to be drawn forward over the glans. 

Petroselinum is to be thought of as an intercurrent remedy in gonor- 
rhoeal affections when the neck of the bladder is involved, and there is 
sudden urgent desire to urinate. It seems as if the patient can hardly 
retain his urine until he gets to a convenient place. 

Digitalis also produces violent erections, even chordee. It is one of 
our best remedies for involuntary seminal emissions during sleep, even 
without dreams. The emissions are followed by great weakness. 

Lin aria Vulgaris. 

This drug acts powerfully upon the sympathetic nerves. It may be 
serviceable in fainting of cardiac origin when the patient faints dead 
away without apparent cause. Linaria has repeatedly produced this 
symptom. It is true that there is some difficulty in confirming such a 
symptom as this, because, in most cases, the patient quickly returns 
to consciousness without recourse to any remedy. But if a patient 
who is subject to attacks of fainting of this kind is not only relieved 



SCROPHULARIACE^E. 395 

but is cured by taking the drug, you know that this is the result of 
the remedy. 

It also has some action upon the bladder, causing and also curing 
enuresis with painful urging to urinate. 



Verbascum. 

Verbascum is to be thought of as a remedy for catarrhs or colds 
when they are associated with neuralgia of the left side of the face, 
which appears periodically, generally twice a day, the same hour in 
the morning and afternoon of each day. It is described as a dull 
pressure on the malar bone as from a finger, with tension of the cheek 
and numb feeling. It is worse from every change of temperature, 
especially a change from warm to cold. There is considerable coryza 
and lachrymation present. 

Verbascum has a peculiar cough which is characteristically laryngeal 
and tracheal. It could be produced only in a hard unyielding tube 
like the larynx or trachea. 

The cough is hollow, hoarse, barking or trumpet-like, and is asso- 
ciated with hoarseness, the voice itself being deep and hard, a sort of 
" basso prof undo " It bears some resemblance to Drosera, Spongia 
and Sulphur. 

Gratiola. 

Gratiola is useful in diarrhoea. It produces and cures a profuse 
yellowish, gushing, watery diarrhoea, comparable to water rushing 
from a hydrant. This diarrhoea is very common in summer, and 
seems to have as its exciting cause excessive drinking of water, 
whether it be cold or not. It is concordant with Croton tiglium, Ela- 
terium, Podophyllum and several other drugs. 

Leptandra Virginica. 

Leptandra Virginica is a drug which acts prominently on the liver. 
Locally, we find dull aching in the right hypochondrium, in the region 
of the gall-bladder, and also posteriorly in the posterior portion of the 
liver. This aching is often accompanied by soreness. At other times 
the congestion is great enough to produce burning distress in and 



396 A CLINICAL MATERIA MBDICA. 

about the liver. This often spreads to the stomach and abdomen. As 
accompanying symptoms ; we find drowsiness and despondency, which 
belong to liver affections of this character, and also diarrhoea, in which 
the stools are black, almost as black as pitch. These stools are ac- 
companied by burning, distressing, colicky pain at the umbilicus. In 
other cases we have vomiting of bile with this burning distress, and 
occasionally clay-colored stools. The tongue is coated yellow or more 
frequently black, or dark-brown, and black down the middle. With 
these symptoms present, Leptandra may be indicated in bilious and 
typhoid fevers. 

Leptandra resembles Mercurius. The main distinction between 
them is that Mercurius almost always has, characteristically, tenesmus 
continuing after stool. Leptandra has not this symptom, although it 
may have griping colicky pains after stool. 

Iris versicolor should also be mentioned here. This drug irritates 
the whole alimentary tract, hence there are burning, serous diarrhoea, 
even rice-water discharges; cramps and vomiting. In cholera morbus 
coming at 2 or 3 A. m. it is superior to Veratrum. It also produces 
inflammation of the pancreas. Leptandra acts more on the liver; if 
the stools are not black, they are watery, muddy, and worse in the 
morning after beginning to move. 

Euphrasia Officinalis. 

Euphrasia is particularly of use to us as a medicine acting on mu- 
cous membranes, especially the conjunctiva and the nasal mucous 
membrane. 

It has long been known as a remedy in affections of the eyes. First 
it produces an inflammation of the eyelids, a blepharitis. The eyelids 
become reddened and injected, particularly on their inner surface. 
They become puffed, red or even dark red; ulceration takes place, 
giving us a discharge which is thick and excoriating. The tears 
themselves are profuse and excoriate the cheeks. There is marked 
photophobia; the patient cannot bear sunlight, but even more objec- 
tionable to him is artificial light. It has been urged by some physi- 
cians that it is "splitting hairs" in attempting to differentiate between 
aggravation from sunlight and that from artificial light. I cannot see 
where this objection has any force, for sunlight and artificial light are 
very different in their compositions. 



SCROPHULARIACE^. 397 

Belladonna has aggravation from artificial light, and Aconite from 
sunlight. 

In conjunctivitis, Euphrasia is sometimes indicated in scrofulous 
cases. Little blisters or phlyctenulae form on or near the cornea; the 
discharges from the eyes are acrid and purulent and a film of mucus 
seems to collect over the cornea, causing a difficulty in vision. This 
blurred sight is relieved by wiping the eye or by winking. 

We find Euphrasia indicated also in conjunctivitis of traumatic 
origin, when the above symptoms are present. Arnica, which is more 
of a remedy for bruises, has no application to this acrid discharge or 
to the formation of these little blisters; so when these form after an 
injury, Euphrasia is the preferable drug. 

Although Euphrasia affects principally the superficial structures of 
the eye, we find it indicated in rheumatic iritis. If you examine the 
eye, you find that the iris reacts very tardily to light, and the aqueous 
humor is cloudy from the admixture of the products of inflammation. 
The pains are burning, stinging, shooting in character, are worse at 
night, and are attended with this acrid lachrymation. 

Euphrasia is indicated in coryza which is perfectly bland with lach- 
rymation which is excoriating. 

If we compare it with its concordant remedies we find, beginning 
with the eye symptoms, that it is a close ally of Mercurius solubilis. 
Both remedies have this well-marked blepharitis and conjunctivitis 
coming from cold. But under Mercurius the discharge is thinner 
than under Euphrasia; moreover Mercurius has marked aggravation 
from the heat of the fire, and in damp weather. 

Next we find Euphrasia similar to Arse?iicum album. Both have the 
acrid discharge and the formation of phtyctenulae on the cornea, and 
both are indicated in scrofulous cases. But Arsenicum has more 
marked burning — burning like fire, especially after midnight. This 
symptom is frequently though not always relieved by the application 
of hot water. Nor have we in Euphrasia the marked restlessness we 
have in Arsenicum. 

Another similar drug is Rhus toxicodendron, which has profuse gush- 
ing tears, excoriating the check; profuse purulent discharge from the 
eyes. But the pus is thinner under Rhus than it is under Euphrasia. 
Rhus more often attacks the right eye; Euphrasia attacks either eye. 
Rhus has pains in the rheumatic iritis, darting from the eye through 
to the occiput, with a great deal of restlessness, agony, tossing about 
at night, and relief from motion and applied heat. 



398 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MBDICA. 

In studying the coryza we are accustomed to associate Euphrasia 
with Allium cepa. We make this differentiation between the two 
remedies: Cepa has excoriating coryza and bland lachrymation; 
Euphrasia, bland coryza and acrid lachrymation. 

There is still one other application we may make of Euphrasia, and 
that is in paralysis of the third pair of nerves, causing ptosis, espe- 
cially when caused by catching cold, in rheumatic patients. 

The allies here are Rhus toxicodendron and Causticum, both of which 
have exactly the same symptom. This gives you very nearly the pre- 
cise position of Euphrasia in the treatment of catarrh of the eyes and 
nose. 

We may also make use of the drug in the treatment of condylomata. 
It is useful in broad, flat condylomata of the anus, of course of sycotic 
origin. Usually there is some oozing of moisture about them. 



LECTURE XXXVIII. 

BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 



Baptisia tinctoria. 



Gelseinium. 
Rhustox., Bryonia. 

Arnica, Muriatic acid, Lachesis, Arseni- 
cum album. 
Ailantlius. 



I have selected for our study to-day a member of the leguminous 
plants, namely, Baptisia tinctoria, or the wild indigo. Baptisia is a 
drug which has a short history, but an exceedingly interesting one. 
Our journals are replete with glowing accounts of cures of typhoid 
conditions made with it. Baptisia causes, in general, the changes in 
the blood, both quantitative and qualitative, w 7 hich are exhibited in 
typhoid fever. The offensive exhalations, the mental and nervous 
phenomena which it develops are characteristic of this disease. Bap- 
tisia is suitable to all stages of typhoid, early or late. Its symptoms I 
will divide into two classes: first, those which indicate the remedy 
early in typhoid affections, and, secondly, those which call for it late. 
The drug may of course be indicated even if all the following symp- 
toms are not present in any one case. But I shall give you the char- 
acteristic symptoms of the remedy, and unless several of these are 
present it would not be proper to give Baptisia. These symptoms are 
as follows: excitement of the brain, just such as precedes delirium; 
wild-, wandering feeling; the patient cannot confine his mind to any 
one subject; restlessness, constant desire to move from place to place; 
disturbed sleep. The patient awakens at two or three o'clock in the 
morning, and then is so restless that he tosses about, unable to sleep 
any longer. During sleep his dreams are of the most extravagant 
character. He dreams that he is chained to the bed, or that he is 
swimming a river, or undergoing some ordeal which makes a great 
demand on his strength. He may suffer from nightmare, from which 
he awakens with a sensation as though the room were insufferably 
hot, making breathing almost impossible. If he still has strength he 



400 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

goes to the open window to get air. Now this is not a true asthma; 
it is not due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchioles. There is 
a fulness of the chest, causing the oppressed feeling. One prover de- 
scribed the symptom, not as a true difficulty of breathing, but as a 
feeling as though he had not strength to lift his chest. 

The patient makes frequent errors as to his own person, supposing 
at times that he is double or that his body is scattered about, and that 
he must toss about the bed to collect the pieces. Now these evidences 
of nervous excitement are accompanied by excessive prostration; the 
back and limbs ache; the back feels stiff; the patient feels tired and 
bruised all over; he complains of the bed feeling too hard; this makes 
him restless, and he tosses about the bed to find a softer spot; weak- 
ness develops, progressing so far that he becomes unable to walk; he 
suffers from an indescribable weak or faint feeling, with or without 
vertigo. 

The face is hot and flushed and has a heavy, besotted look, as in 
the case of one intoxicated. The eyes, also, are heavy and stupid in 
appearance. The tongue is at first white or slightly yellowish; fre- 
quently, too, the papillae are raised and project through this whitish 
or yellow coating. The edges of the tongue are of a deep red color. 

There is a dull, heavy headache, with the sensation as if the head 
would be pressed in; sometimes the pressure in the forehead seems to 
go down into the root of the nose. Again, the patient complains of a 
sensation which he describes ' ' as though the skin of the forehead 
were being pulled back towards the occiput." This is evidently due 
to tonic contraction of the occipito-frontalis muscle. At other times 
the patient simply describes the sensation as though the skin of the 
forehead were tense, or tight, or drawn. These symptoms of the head 
are often accompanied by a numb, tingling feeling in the forehead or 
scalp. At other times the head feels enormously large. 

The typhoid type of fever is very characteristic of Baptisia, it being 
one of the few T remedies which actually produce this type of fever. 
There is always an increase of temperature. The pulse is usually ac- 
celerated in direct proportion to the intensity of the fever. Even in 
the early stages of typhoid fever, you may find Baptisia indicated by 
the abdominal symptoms, slight sensitiveness in the ilio-csecal region, 
and yellow putrescent stools. These, then, are the symptoms calling 
for the early exhibition of Baptisia in typhoid fever. 

I can say confidently that if you select the drug on its homoeopathic 



BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 40I 

indications as just outlined, you will succeed in aborting a large per- 
centage of typhoid states. I say this despite the assertions of many 
other physicians who have argued to the contrary. The properly- 
selected drug will abort typhoid fever. The disease need not run its 
course, as prominent old-school authorities claim it must necessarily do. 

Later in the course of the disease, during the second or third week, 
you will find Baptisia indicated when the prostration is profound. 
The patient is in a stupor. He falls asleep while answering questions. 
His face is now dark-red in color and has, more marked than ever, 
this heavy, besotted look. The tongue has changed its yellow or 
white coating to one which has a brown streak down the centre, the 
edges of the organ still remaining red. All the exhalations and dis- 
charges from the patient are exceedingly offensive. The teeth are 
covered with sordes having an offensive odor. The breath is fcetid. 
The stools are yellowish or dark, and are horribly putrid. The urine 
and sweat are both offensive. So 3^011 see, Baptisia applies to cases in 
which there is an evident decomposition of vital fluids and rapid dis- 
integration of tissue. 

To give Baptisia its legitimate position among other typhoid reme- 
dies it will be necessary to compare it with those nearest like it in 
symptomatology. The first of these remedies to which I shall call 
your attention is Gclsemium. This usually precedes Baptisia when 
there are malaise and muscular soreness, and the patient suffers from 
chills and "crups," which go down the back. This is on the first 
day, remember. In the afternoon comes the fever with accelerated 
pulse, this being full and flowing, not tense and resisting as under 
Aconite. The fever is usually associated with drowsiness; the face is 
red in color, uniformly suffused; and even as early in the case as this 
there may be prostration. Gelsemium causes paratysis of the motor 
nerves, hence there must be weakness of the muscles. By the next 
afternoon, if the fever rises, despite Gelsemium, you may change to 
Baptisia, provided the above-mentioned symptoms develop. The rea- 
son I dwell on the relations of these two drugs is because of the great 
similarity of their symptoms. Both of them have this intense muscu- 
lar soreness and prostration; both have drowsiness and nervous ex- 
citement, with prostration; both have this feeling of expansion, as 
though the head or some part of the body were enormously enlarged; 
and both have the afternoon exacerbation of the fever. The relation 
between the two drugs is one of degree or intensity. Gelsemittm is the 
milder acting drug of the two. 
26 



4-02 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Another remedy which is not unlike Baptisia is Rhus tox. Like 
Baptisia, Rhus has restlessness, brown tongue and soreness of the mus- 
cles. I must confess that the distinction between the two remedies is 
not always easy. Formerly, Rhus held undisputed sway in almost all 
diseases which threatened to assume a typhoid t}^pe, whether the dis- 
ease was diphtheria, scarlatina, peritonitis or pneumonia. Now this 
honor is shared with Baptisia. The main differences between the 
drugs, brief! y given, are these: Rhus has restlessness, caused more by 
rheumatoid pains than by muscular soreness alone. The tongue, un- 
der Rhus, has a red, triangular tip, which is not noticed under Bap- 
tisia, Delirium is of a muttering character under Rhus, unaccom- 
panied, so far as I know, by these delusions respecting personal iden- 
tity. Neither are the putrid discharges of Rhus tox. quite so offensive 
:as those of Baptisia. If diarrhoea progresses to a severe type under 
Rhus, the stools are watery, .sometimes bloody and involuntary. The 
pneumonic symptoms which often complicate typhoid fever are more 
prominent under Rhus. 

Arnica claims a relationship with Baptisia. It is similar to the lat- 
ter remedy in the stupor, in the intolerance of the bed (the patient 
complaining that it feels too hard), and in the falling asleep while 
answering questions. Arnica, I think, is more suitable when there is 
a tendency to apoplectic congestion and when the stupor is so profound 
that both stool and urine are passed involuntarily. The intensity of 
the involvement of the brain is shown by the loud, snoring respiration. 
Then, too, in Arnica we find suggillations, sometimes called ecchy- 
moses. 

Lachesis also comes forward as similar to Baptisia. You will recog- 
nize the resemblances between the remedies in the oflensiveness of the 
discharges, in the putridity of the exhalations and in the excessive 
prostration. I believe that I have seen apparently hopeless cases react 
under the benign influence of this remedy. As an animal poison, I 
think it penetrates more deeply than Baptida, and in consequence 
should be called for in worse cases. It may be distinguished by the 
following symptoms: trembling of the tongue when attempting to 
protrude it; the tongue catches on the teeth during the act. When he 
succeeds in getting it out, it hangs there tremblingly, and he may not 
even have sense enough to draw it in again. Haemorrhages are fre- 
quent in the Lachesis patient. Blood may escape from every orifice of 
the body. The lips crack and ooze a dark or blackish blood. Dark 
blood escapes from the bowels. This, after standing awhile, deposits 



BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 403 

a sediment which looks like charred straw. In severe cases there is 
marked intolerance to light pressure. Even when the sensorium ap- 
pears to be perfectly benumbed the patient resists the slightest touch 
about the neck. In still worse cases, 3'ou have to distinguish it from 
Baptisia when there are approaching cerebral paralysis, dropping of the 
lower jaw and involuntary discharges. 

Muriatic acid bears some resemblance to Baptisia in the great pros- 
tration, in the decomposition of fluids, and in the low form of delirium. 
But the general character of its sj^mptoms is not sufficiently similar to 
those of the other remed}' to make a distinction difficult. The Muriatic 
acid weakness is so great that the patient is unable to make the slight 
exertion required to maintain the head on the pillow; he therefore 
slides down to the foot of the bed. 

Now, a word about Baptisia in diseases other than typhoid fever. 
In such affections it is indicated by the symptoms already mentioned. 
In dysentery 3^ou will give it when the discharges are offensive, bloody 
and are attended by tenesmus, but with a significant absence of pain, 
showing an alarming depression of vitality. 

Baptisia comes into play in the treatment of phthisis. It is espe- 
cially useful during the later stages of the disease in relieving the 
fever, particularly when it increases in the afternoon with slight 
drowsiness, thick speech and bewilderment of mind. 

Baptisia has proved itself one of our best remedies in diphtheria 
when it has assumed a typhoid type. Some of the s} T mptoms already 
mentioned will be present. The mouth is excessively putrid. The 
membrane is dark and exhibits a gangrenous tendency. Sometimes, 
early in the disease, you will observe this characteristic: the patient 
can swallow only liquids. Give him milk and he will drink it. Give 
him solid food and he rejects it at once. 

Ailanthus is to be compared with Baptisia in typhoid conditions, in 
scarlatina and in diphtheria. It produces even more profound stupor 
than the latter remedy. There is a well-marked, excoriating, watery 
discharge from the nose, making the upper lip sore. The rash, if any 
exist, is of a livid purplish hue, thus denoting the poisoned state of 
the blood. 

I wish to impress upon you the need of correlating properly in 3^our 
mind Gelsemunn, Baptisia, Rhus tox. and Lachesis. These remedies 
present so inan}^ distinct clinical pictures, which, when recalled in 
time of necessity and used according to their symptomatic indications, 
form a quartette invaluable in the treatment of disease. 



LECTURE XXXIX. 



SOLANACEiE. 

f Belladonna. ] 

Hyoscyamus. > Mydriatic— Acro-narcotic. 

Stramonium. ) 
Solanaceae. *{ Solanum nigrum. 

Tabacum. 

Dulcamara. 
[ Capsicum — Acrid. 

The drugs composing this group of remedies present great symp- 
tomatic similarity. The first three remedies on the list are continually 
in use, even in an average practice. There is scarcely a symptom of 
one of them which cannot be found under one of the others. The 
resemblances are, in fact, perplexingly similar. 

I have arranged the remedies on the board, not botanically, but 
rather according to their medicinal relations. For instance, the first 
four on the list attack prominently the brain and have narcotic prop- 
erties; they are, therefore, placed in one group. Then we have 
Tabacum, which also has narcotic properties, but which acts also on 
other parts of the body besides the brain. Next comes Dulcamara, 
which contains a small quantity of Solanine, and is only slightly nar- 
cotic. A large quantity of this drug would be required to develop the 
soporific effects which can be obtained from Stramonium or Hyoscya- 
mus. Lastly, we have Capsicum, which is decidedly irritant or acrid. 
Placed on the skin, it acts as a blister or counter-irritant. It has pos- 
sibly some narcotic effects, but it differs almost entirely from the other 
members of the group. 

The resemblances between the first three members of the group are 
so. great, in fact the drugs are so nearly " idem,'" that it is not well to 
follow one with the other. There are some symptoms of Belladonna and 
Hyoscyamus which are opposite, not so much in the phraseology in 
which they are expressed, for they may read almost exactly alike, but 



SOLANACE^E. 



405 



in the fact that they are results acting in opposite directions; conse- 
quently, they sometimes serve to antidote each other. Especially is 
this true of the skin symptoms. 

Belladonna. 



Belladonna. < 



Nerves. 



Ailments. 



J 



Sphincters contract. 

Irritates the centres. 
Irritates, then paralyzes the peri- 
pheries. 
Disturbs the circulation; worse in the 
brain. 
_ Disturbs the circulation; fever, 
f Violent, sudden, 
j Usually with brain symptoms. 
Inflammation. 

Hypersemia with tendency upward. 
^ Brain cells. 

Belladonna, or the deadly nightshade, was known to the medical 
world as early as 1500 A. D. The Venetians named the plant " herba 
Bella donna," from the circumstance that the ladies used it distilled in 
water as a cosmetic to brighten the eyes and flush the cheeks. The 
plant, especially the leaves, yields the well-known alkaloid Atropine. 
The root, too, contains Atropine , although in variable proportions. 
Belladonna is intensely poisonous to man, though herbivorous animals 
may eat it with impunity. 

Studied as a poison, Belladonna causes the following symptoms: 
eyes dry and injected; face red, turgid, and hot; skin scarlet or 
studded with papillae, all but identical with those in scarlatina ; violent 
congestions especially of the head; mouth and throat distressingly dry; 
this last sensation extends downward, compelling frequent swallow- 
ing, and suffocative spasms of the fauces and glottis. Thirst is violent, 
yet water aggravates; there are vertigo, confusion, hallucination, and 
finally stupor. The pupils are so markedly dilated that the iris is 
hardly visible.* There are jactitation of the muscles; convulsions- 
Such poisoning cases are not uncommon in Europe, where the plant is 

* Belladonna dilates the pupil by stimulating the sympathetic ; Physostigma 
contracts it by stimulating the third cranial nerve ; Gelsemium dilates it by 
paralyzing the third cranial nerve. 



406 A CUNICAIv MATKRIA MKD1CA. 

native, and where its berries have been mistaken for cherries. In this 
country, too, it has been taken accidentally, and also employed in 
attempts at suicide. To antidote it, use the stomach pump, emetics of 
hot mustard water, and strong coffee without milk or sugar. 

Belladonna as a homoeopathic remedy is almost as old as the art 
itself. Our symptomatology from provings and poisoning cases en- 
ables us to employ the drug with mathematical certainty, so far as its 
selection is concerned. But like all polychrests, it is abused by hur- 
ried and careless practitioners, and so is often given when its resem- 
blance to the cases under treatment is only superficial and partial. 
Of all drugs, it has the power of producing opposite effects most 
markedly. 

Belladonna has been so often mentioned in the preceding lectures of 
this course in comparing it with other drugs that you are already 
somewhat familiar with it. For this reason many of the symptoms of 
the drug may be passed over in brief review. But first of all let me 
tell you something of the general character of Bellado7ina. It seems 
to be best suited to rather fleshy and phlegmatic persons of a plethoric 
habit who are subject to congestions, especially of the head. This is 
something like the constitution of Calcarea ostrearum, but Belladonna 
has not the pallor of that remedy. The Belladonna patients are pleas- - 
ant and jolly enough when well, but they become exceedingly irritable 
and overbearing when ill. This pleasant sociability which makes 
them so companionable, seems to be converted into the opposite con- 
dition when they are afflicted with disease. It is also suited to pre- 
cocious children, with big head and small body, who may be scrofu- 
lous, with a tendency to swelling of the lips and enlargement of 
glands. They learn things rapidly; sleep is unnatural; the head is 
hot and the cheeks red; they scream out during sleep. Belladonna, 
when it is to be used for children, demands the presence of some cer- 
ebral symptoms. There must be some irritation of the brain, as 
shown by jerking of the limbs, irritability and fretfulness, or even some 
absolute meningeal inflammation. 

A peculiarity of Belladonna is its faculty of exciting constriction of 
the circular fibres of blood-vessels, contraction of sphincters, etc. This 
universal quality of Belladonna is exemplified in the constriction of 
the throat, worse from liquids; constriction of the anus, which, with 
tenesmic urging and pressing in the rectum, suggests the drug in dys- 
entery; spasmodic constriction of the os uteri, retarding labor; and 
ineffectual or frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge. 



SOLANACE^. 407 

The disease in which Belladonna is indicated is acute, sudden and 
violent. The very rapidity of the onset of the trouble should at once 
suggest Belladonna. For example, a child is perfectly well on going 
to bed. A few hours afterward it begins to scream out during sleep, 
and is soon aroused with violent symptoms, such as jerking of the 
limbs, irritation of the brain, restlessness, can't lie still; ceaseless mo- 
tion, especially of the arms. All these symptoms suggest Belladonna. 

Again if inflammations come suddenly, and are violent or almost 
overwhelming in their intensity, Belladonna is suggested. We may 
think of it in abscess, when pus develops with lightning-like rapidity, 
whether it be an abscess of the tonsil, a boil, or any other kind of 
abscess. Hence we find it indicated in phlegmonous erysipelas, which 
quickly goes on to suppuration. The affected parts become greatly 
swollen. Pus works its way through the tissues between the various 
muscles. The very suddenness of the attack suggests Belladon?ia. 
The pains are quite consistent with this character of the drug. They 
come suddenly and last a greater or less length of time, and then cease 
as suddenly as they began. So much for the general character of 
Belladonna. 

Belladonna acts on muscular tissue and on the joints. It is one of 
our best remedies in acute and chronic rheumatism. The pains are 
cutting and tearing, running along the limbs like lightning. The 
joints are swollen, red and shining; streaks of red radiate from the in- 
flamed joint; rheumatic fever, with pains attacking the nape of the 
neck, shoulders and upper arms. It is one of the best remedies in 
rheumatic stiff neck, caused by cutting the hair, getting the head wet, 
or sitting with the head and neck exposed to a draft. 

The action of Belladonna on the brain must be understood before we 
can proceed further. In reviewing the symptoms of the drug, it seems 
to me that it does not develop positive inflammation of the meninges, 
but rather the collateral symptoms of the inflammation only. Thus 
Aconite causes an absolute inflammation of the meninges with an in- 
crease of exudation; Bryonia causes inflammation, with an exudation 
of leucocytes and blood plasma, constituting complete inflammation. 
But Belladonna seems rather to provoke congestion only. The sur- 
charged blood-vessels seem to have ruptured, producing little reddish 
spots or ecchymoses in the tissues, thus exciting a congestive irrita- 
tion of the brain beneath the membrane. If exudation follows this 
congestive irritation the exudate is serous, and is just the kind that 



408 A CUNICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

results from venous congestion. It is not the inflammatory exuda- 
tion, rich in plasma, which is pictured under Bryonia, Apis and Sul- 
phur. 

Nevertheless, Belladonna produces so many collateral symptoms of 
cerebral irritation, that we find its use indispensable in this condition. 
In the first place, it causes congestion of the head. In its milder form, 
this may be simply a feeling of heat about the head, the feet being 
cold. At other times and in more violent forms we find the face red 
and the whites of the eyes somewhat injected. The patient complains 
of a severe throbbing headache. He may be either drowsy or very 
wakeful. Frequently these latter symptoms alternate, that is, at 
times the patient is drowsy and falls into a heavy slumber, awaking 
later with a start, and crying out, or giving some other evidence of 
cerebral irritation, such as jerking of the limbs and twitching of indi- 
vidual muscles. As this form of irritation advances, we find the eyes 
very red, the whites of the eyes looking almost like raw beef. The 
carotid arteries throb so violent^ that their pulsations are plainly vis- 
ible. This congestion proceeds to an inflammatory irritation. We 
find intense throbbing in the head, with sharp shooting pains, making 
the patient scream or cringe, so violent are they. These pains come 
almost like a flash, and disappear as suddenly as they came. At first 
the patient cannot sleep. He is in the unfortunate predicament of 
being sleepy, yet unable to sleep. As the symptoms advance, espe- 
cially in children, there is boring of the head into the pillow; the head 
is thrown backward and there is rolling of the head from side to side. 
Some squint is noticed. The pupils are dilated. There is grinding of 
the teeth. The face is now bright red or else the congestion is so 
violent as to make it almost purple. If the patient is a child whose 
anterior fontanelle has not yet closed, you can feel it, tense and bulg- 
ing, above the convexity of the skull, throbbing and thumping with 
each pulsation of the heart. Convulsions often ensue, particularly in 
children, and these convulsions are very violent, distorting the body 
in every conceivable manner, opisthotonos predominating. The urine 
is either scanty or suppressed. Now the various symptoms, subjective 
and objective, which belong to this condition are, first, jerking in sleep, 
or even when awake; on closing his eyes the patient is very apt to see 
abnormal visions. These usually disappear on opening the eyes. At 
other times he has a sensation as though he were falling; the patient, 
if a child, suddenly arouses from sleep, clutches at the air, and 



SOIvANACE^e. 409 

trembles as if from fear. Sometimes this symptom is due to dreams; at 
other times it comes from severe pain in the head, which, by its in- 
tensity, wakens the child in great alarm. At still other times it re- 
sults from the sensation as if the child were falling. 

Sometimes we find the patients with this cerebral. irritation lying in 
a stupor. They can scarcely be aroused, and when aroused they are 
alwa} r s violent, tossing about, striking those near them and tearing 
their clothes. All these are evidences of excitement, which, if not 
due to actual inflammation, at least approach that condition. 

In inflammation of the brain or its membranes, Belladorina must 
give place to other drugs when exudation takes places, whether the 
meningitis be simple or tuberculous. There is very little relation be- 
tween Belladonna and tuberculous meningitis. Tuberculous menin- 
gitis is slow in its course. Thus we have suggested at once Sulphur, 
Calcarea ostrearum, Apis, and other remedies deeper and slower-acting 
than Belladomia. Then again, when exudation has taken place, as in- 
dicated by the persistence of the rolling of the head and sudden shriek- 
ing, we know that we must resort to other remedies, principally to 
Apis. Bryonia, too, often comes in after Belladonna, when the face is 
flushed red or is alternately red and pale. The slightest attempt to 
move the child makes it shriek with pain. The pupils do not react 
readily to light. The child moves the mouth as though it were chew- 
ing or sucking. The resemblances between the two remedies are so 
great as to make a selection often perplexing. Both remedies have 
haste in drinking water, both have crying out with pain, both have 
aggravation from motion, and both have constipation. At times you 
will find it very difficult to distinguish between the two. 

To separate Belladonna from Aconite is easier. The fevers caused 
by the two drugs are distinguished in the following manner: Bella- 
donna does not produce fever primarily from its action on the sym- 
pathetic nervous system; Aconite does do this. Belladonna acts sec- 
ondarily on the sympathetic and primarily on the cerebro-spinal 
nervous system, hence is of use only when that system is involved, 
which in children occurs very early in the case. In adults it is apt to 
commence as a fever, cerebral symptoms ensuing; thus Bellado?ina 
becomes the remedy. In the beginning of fever, Aconite is preferable 
when there is violent anguish of mind, with restlessness, tossing about, 
fear of death, dry, hot skin, full, bounding pulse, some hallucinations, 
some crying out in sleep, and some muttering or foolish talk which 



4-IO A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

belongs to the fever. These cerebral symptoms result from the high 
temperature and not from direct inflammation of the brain. But sup- 
pose this case goes on until the brain becomes involved. The skin 
becomes so hot that it almost burns the examining hand, or, if you raise 
the bed-clothes, a hot steam seems to come forth from the patient. 
That is the kind of heat that belongs to Belladonna. At other times, 
hot sweat, particularly about the head and face, accompanies this heat. 
You see the sweat standing out in beads on the forehead, and if you 
feel it you will find that it is hot. This is not at all characteristic of 
Aconite. The two remedies may be, however, distinguished by the 
fact that Belladonna has jerking in sleep, hallucinations, visions, and 
courting of death rather than fear of it. This is often the case in 
rheumatic fever. The whole system seems to be involved, producing 
general fever with pain in the joints flying about from place to place. 
This fever is almost always associated with profuse sour sweat, which 
gives no relief whatever. The patient seems to soak everything about 
him with the sweat, and the more he sweats the less sign is there of 
improvement. Aconite does no good here, but Belladonna does. 

When the fever has subsided somewhat, and the sweat still con- 
tinues, Mercurius is the proper remedy to follow. 

In typhoid types of fever, Belladonna is indicated sometimes in the- 
beginning of the disease. It is indicated in the stage of excitement 
when the congestion of the brain predominates. We find furious de- 
lirium, with screaming out and violent efforts to escape from the bed 
or the house. The face is red, either a bright or deep red, bordering 
on purple; the pupils are dilated and the eyes injected. The patient 
is full of fear, imagining that all sorts of accidents are about to happen 
to him. The urine is scanty, and when passed it is usually a bright 
deep yellow, with or without sediment. The feet are apt to be cold. 
The patient now falls into a heavy snoring sleep; this is not a quiet 
sleep, for there is apt to be some evidence of cerebral irritation, such 
as jerking of muscles, twitching of limbs, and crying out. No matter 
how profound the sleep may be, it is never a perfectly quiet stupor; if 
it is, Belladonna is not the remedy. You will see from this that Bella- 
donna is indicated, not from any changes in the brain caused by the poi- 
soned blood, but from changes resulting from congestion or inflamma- 
tion. When the disease has gone so far as to cause alterations in the 
fluids of the body, Belladonna is decreasingly indicated as these 
changes advance. Then you should have recourse to such remedies 
as Hyoscyamus, Rhtis tox., Lachesis, and others. 



SOLANACE^. 411 

Sometimes we have a condition differing from the one already de- 
scribed, in which Belladonna may be the remedy. The face is pale in- 
stead of red. Now this indication is just as characteristic of Bella- 
donna as is the red face. It is usually associated with irritation of the 
brain and starting in sleep. It occurs usually in summer complaint, 
during dentition, and in colic and in similar diseases. 

The pulse is either full and hard, as under Aconite, or it is slow. 
It is slow when the cerebral congestion is great enough to cause some 
pressure on the brain. Here, again, you find an illustration of the 
alternating effects of Belladonna. The pulse may be rapid for a while, 
and then it becomes slow, and so alternates. 

The headaches of Belladonna are nervous and congestive. The ver- 
tigo also is congestive; the patient feels as if he would pitch forward; 
or he suddenly falls backward unconscious. The nervous headaches 
are semi-lateral, right sided, worse from 4 p. m. to 3 A. m., worse from 
lying down; the brain feels as if it were swashing about. The head- 
ache is worse from light, noise or any jarring. Vomiting; can't keep 
quiet; fidgety. The congestive headaches are of a throbbing character, 
with aggravation from inclining the head toward the part of the brain 
most markedly congested. The pains are often of a stabbing, shoot- 
ing character, driving patient almost wild. When the whole head is 
affected, the patient sits up with the head supported so as to keep it 
from bending; accompanying the headache there is generally a red 
face, and violent throbbing of the carotid arteries. The mind is often 
affected; the patient becomes delirious, wild and excited, and has all 
sorts of hallucinations. 

We have already seen how Belladonna may be indicated in inflam- 
mation of the brain. It is also a valuable remedy in inflammation of 
other parts of the body. For instance, we find it to be the best, 
though by no means the only, remedy in otitis media, or inflammation 
of the middle ear. This disease will perplex you at times. The symp- 
toms are very severe. The child puts its hands to its head, and you 
may erroneously presume the trouble to be there. ' The pains are dig- 
ging, boring and tearing in character; they are necessarily so on 
account of the anatomical relations of the parts affected. They come 
suddenly, and are very violent. They seem to shoot into the other ear, 
or into the head, with buzzing and roaring in the ears. Now if you 
examine the ear you will find the membrana tympani bulging outward, 
its blood-vessels very much injected; in fact, it presents a highly 



412 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

inflamed appearance. There is rapid formation of pus, which seeks to 
escape either by bursting the membrane, by the Eustachian tube, or 
through some internal part. In case it takes the latter course, it 
produces alarming if not fatal symptoms. It is your duty to recog- 
nize this disease early, while there is still a chance of saving the ear. 
Belladonna is believed to be our best remedy for the disease in its early 
stages; later, we have other remedies indicated such as Hepar and 
Tellurium. 

Tellurium causes inflammation of the middle ear, with rupture of 
the membrana tympani and pouring out of pus, which may, at first, 
be bland, but soon becomes very offensive, having an odor like that of 
herring-brine. 

In inflammations of the eyes, as in conjunctivitis or sclerotitis, we 
find Belladonna indicated by the suddenness of the attack, by the 
severity of the pains, and by the violence of the symptoms. There is 
great intolerance of light. The eye feels as if enormousl} 7- swollen. 
The conjunctiva is bright red. These symptoms give you a perfect 
picture of Belladonna. It seems to attack the right eye more than the 
left. It is the intense congestion which guides us to the selection of 
Belladonna in eye-affections; the same remark applies equally to neu- 
ralgias in and about the eye. 

Spigelia has many eye-pains like those of Belladon?ia, but they are 
left-sided, and lack the intense congestion. 

Amy I nitrite is similar to Belladonna, being indicated when the eyes 
and face are red. 

Paris quadrifolia is excellent when there are pains as if the eyes 
were drawn back by strings; the eyeballs feel too large (like Spigelia). 

Prunus has a crushing pain, or sensation as if the eyes were pressed 
asunder, or sharp piercing pains through and around the eye. 

The parotid gland is inflamed by Belladomia, especially on the right 
side; there are stitches, extending into the ear; the gland is swollen, 
hot and red; the orifice of Steno's duct is painful, as if abraded; the 
saliva is thick, gluey, yellowish and tenacious; mucus coats the 
mouth and throat with a thick tenacious layer; the tongue is white 
and fissured. 

Belladonna produces inflammation of the throat. The Belladonna 
tongue is usually bright red, the papillae are enlarged or elevated, 
giving it a resemblance to the strawberry (and hence it has been called 
the strawberry tongue). At times you find the dorsum of the tongue 



SOLANACE^. 413 

coated with a thin white layer, through which the enlarged red papil- 
lse show. But, as the case advances, this coating peels off, leaving a 
bright red, highly-inflamed tongue. 

The throat is a prominent point of attack in the Belladonna proving. 
The inflammation which it develops there is of a very common kind. 
Looking into the throat, you find the fauces inflamed and bright red, 
the tonsils, particularly the right one, enlarged, with a tendency 
of the disease to extend toward the left. All these S3 T mptoms have 
the same rapidity of progress that we noticed with the Belladonna 
symptoms elsewhere. There is great contraction of the fauces and 
glottis, so that any attempt to swallow is followed by sudden constric- 
tion of the throat and ejection of the food through the nose and mouth. 
The patient makes an attempt to drink, and the moment the water 
touches the fauces it is ejected, and escapes in any way it can. The 
patient seems to be worse from swallowing fluids, more so, in fact, 
than from either saliva or solids. The tonsils rapidly suppurate; the 
glands in the neck, externally, are commonly involved, and are to be 
felt as hard but very sensitive kernels in the neck. 

Sometimes you find a pearly-white exudate on the fauces, which is 
seen to be mucus and not fibrin. There is, therefore, strictly speak- 
ing, no resemblance between the Belladoiuia inflammation and that 
characteristic of diphtheria or membranous croup, so that when Bella- 
donna is administered in diphtheria it must be indicated on other 
symptoms than those belonging to the membrane. The general char- 
acter of diphtheria is that of blood-poisoning, while Belladomia does 
not poison the blood. When you give Belladonna in diphtheria, there- 
fore, be certain that it is the remedy or you will lose valuable time. 
It may, occasionally, be the remedy in the early stages when the vio- 
lence of the attack calls for it. 

Let me here remind you that Lycopodium affects the right tonsil, 
that it produces high temperature, crying out during sleep, and awak- 
ing from sleep cross and irritable. These symptoms we found under 
Belladonna also; so be sure when you give the latter remedy that 
Lycopodium is not the one that is indicated. 

Then, again, you should think of Apis. Apis is a magnificent rem- 
edy in diphtheria. The exudate is more on the right tonsil; the throat 
is bright red and rosy; the tongue is red and the fever very high; the 
skin is dry and hot, the pulse accelerated, and the patient very rest- 
less. 



414 A CIJNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

But, in tonsillitis or quinsy, Belladonna stands at the head of the list 
of remedies. Here it far exceeds Apis in therapeutic value, because 
it attacks the parenchyma of the organ. The inflammation caused by 
Apis is superficial, only involving the mucous surface. 

In throat diseases Belladonna forms an interesting little group with 
Hepar, Mercurius, Silicea and Sulphur. When, in spite of the exhi- 
bition of Belladonna, pus forms in the tonsil, as indicated by rigors and 
chills and by sharp, lancinating pains with throbbing, you should 
change from that remedy to Hepar. Bven then you may be able to 
prevent abscess- formation. 

You should change to Mercurius if pus has already formed; the 
tonsil is enlarged and encroaches on neighboring parts and the breath- 
ing is labored. When pus has thus shown itself, Mercurius, given low 
and repeatedly, will cause a quick breaking of the abscess, relieving all 
the symptoms. If you give Mercurius at first you will greatly lengthen 
the course of your case. 

Sometimes you must have recourse to Silicea when the abscess has 
discharged and refuses to heal. Pus keeps on forming and grows dark 
and foetid and disagreeable to the taste. 

In some of these cases Silicea fails; then you should interpolate a 
few doses of Sulphur, which generally has the desired effect. It may 
be necessary to have recourse to Fluoric acid. 

There is another remedy that has been used to some extent, namely, 
Amygdala amara. The drug causes a dark red injection of the fauces, 
uvula and tonsils, with sharp pains, causing considerable difficulty in 
swallowing; sometimes they are so severe as to make the patient cry 
out. If these symptoms are present the drug may be used in diph- 
theria. I have myself cured cases of this disease with Amygdala 
amara alone when there were present this dark red color of the throat, 
the sudden sharp pains, and marked general prostration. Amygdala 
develops the prostrated, tired feeling which is incident to the first 
days of diphtheria. 

Belladonna is of use in oesophagitis with sense of constriction; there 
are painful swallowing and breathing. Veratrum viride, Rhus tox. 
and Arsenicum are also remedies sometimes indicated in oesophagitis. 

In gastric symptoms, Belladonna is called for when there are cramp- 
like pains in the stomach, worse during a meal; stitching pains; must 
bend backward and hold the breath; burning. These gastralgic pains 
always go through to the spine. Pressure is a prominent gastric 



SOLANACE^. 415 

symptom; it is worse after eating and comes also at times when walk- 
ing. 

Calcarea ostrearum has pressure as of a stone, relieved from motion. 
Chininum arsenicosum has caused pressure in the " solar plexus " with 
tender spine just behind it. 

Bismuth has gastralgia going from throat to the spine, relieved by 
bending backward. It thus closely simulates the Belladonna case, but 
lacks the extreme nervous and febrile excitement; Bismuth is inclined 
to be cold, with pale face, although the pain may be accompanied by 
anxiety and restlessness. 

In inflammation about the abdomen w 7 e sometimes find Belladonna 
the remedy ; for instance, in peritonitis, whether accompanied by 
metritis or not, and whether or not it is of puerperal origin. The 
symptoms which call for it are: commencing t3anpanites; the abdomen 
is swollen like a drum, and very sensitive to touch, so much so, in 
fact, that the patient wants all the bed-clothing removed. The least 
jarring in the room makes her worse. For instance, if you should un- 
expectedly kick your foot against the bed in walking near her, you 
cause her to wince and complain bitterly of pain. You will also notice 
the pungent heat of which I have already spoken. The abdomen feels 
extremely hot to your hand. On raising the bed-clothes there appears 
to issue forth the hot steam to which reference has already been made. 
There is marked cerebral irritation. The lochial discharge is apt to 
be scanty or suppressed. 

Tilia Europea is a drug that I feel certain has not received due credit 
from the profession. It is useful in puerperal metritis when there is 
intense sore feeling about the uterus; there is also marked bearing- 
down with hot sweat which gives no relief. 

A remedy very commonly used by allopaths is Terebinthina . Now, 
the symptoms which this drug has actually produced are: bearing 
down in the uterine region; burning like fire about the hypogastrium; 
burning on urinating; dark, cloudy, muddy urine. In these cases 
the tongue is apt to be dry and red. 

For this feeling of soreness in the uterus Dr. Jeanes used a prepara- 
tion of honey with salt, Mel cum sale. He used it in the third or sixth 
attenuation. His key-note for the selection of the drug was a feeling 
of soreness in the t^pogastric region extending from ilium to ilium - 
This is an important indication in uterine displacements and in the 
commencement of metritis. 



41 6 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Under Belladonna, the urine is yellow and clear; turbid with red 
sediment, or profuse. There may be involuntary urination in sleep. 
This latter suggests the use of the drug in children. It will not often 
disappoint you when the other symptoms concur. There is not a true 
atony present, but a relaxation of sphincters and an over action from 
the loss of balance of the longitudinal muscular fibres. There is a 
feeling in the bladder as of a ball rolling there (also Lachesis and per- 
haps Lycopodiurri) , tenesmus of the bladder; strangury; dark, turbid 
and fiery red urine; frequent desire to urinate with scanty discharge 
of urine. In enuresis with actual relaxation look to Plantago major, 
Causticum, etc. Belladonna may have to be followed in these cases by 
Calcarea ostrearum, Sulphur or Silicea. Kreosote is indicated in en- 
uresis especially when the patient urinates when dreaming of the act. 
Hyoscyamus should also be considered. 

We have next to speak of the action of Belladonna on the skin. It 
causes at first an erythema, a bright scarlet redness of the skin; the 
skin becomes exceedingly sensitive to the touch. Sometimes, this 
erythema consists in a uniform blush over the entire surface of the 
body such as we have in the Sydenham variety of scarlatina. At other 
times it has an erysipelatous appearance, coming, as it does, in streaks 
which start from some central point and radiate in all directions, the, 
color usually being very bright, the swelling rapid with early involve- 
ment of the cellular tissue beneath the skin, and in some cases rapid 
formation of pus, which burrows deeply into the cellular tissue. Thus 
you have a true picture of phlegmonous erysipelas. With these symp- 
toms you do not often find development of vesicles or pustules. In- 
stead of this you find the surface smooth, shining and tense. Pains 
are violent and sharp. They are of a lancinating and stinging char- 
acter and are usually associated with a great deal of throbbing, par- 
ticularly if the deeper parts are involved in the inflammation. 

If the erysipelas should attack the face, it almost always begins on 
the right side, with a tendency to extend toward the left. There is 
almost always a tendency manifested. Do not confound this cerebral 
irritation with metastasis of erysipelas to the brain. It is a simple irri- 
tation caused either by the amount of fever, by the severity of the 
pain, or by the poisoning of the blood, or possibly all three; but it is 
not a true metastasis. If metastasis should take place, Belladonna 
may still be called for. If, however, Belladonna fail in these cases, we 
have other remedies; for instance, Lachesis, when cerebral metastasis 



SOLANACE^. 4 : 7 

fails to yield to Belladonna, the face is of a purplish or bluish hue 
rather than of the bright or deep red of Belladonna. The patient is 
weaker, the pulse more rapid and lacking in force, and there is more 
drowsiness than we find under Belladon?ia. 

Still another concordant remedy is Crotalus, which is very similar to 
Lackesis — -so similar, indeed, that I cannot give you any points of 
distinction between the two. 

Cuprum is to be thought of for this metastasis, if the patient is 
threatened with convulsions. There are vigorous contractions of the 
flexor muscles. 

Ailanlhus suits when there is profound stupor and the face is livid 
and mottled. Apis and Sulphur also come within this sphere. 

Returning now to the erythema of Belladonna, we learn that when 
the condition becomes general, it suggests the employment of the 
remedy in scarlet fever. In this disease, it is indicated, first of all, 
by this bright rosy hue of the whole body; secondly, by the irritation 
of the brain and this of an active kind, the symptoms ranging from a 
simple starting from sleep or twitchings of individual groups of mus- 
cles to the most violent delirium with shrieking and jumping out of 
bed. The rash itself must be of the smooth kind. Belladonna does 
not cause a miliary rash. Vomiting is violent. Belladomia produces 
vomiting just as severe as that of Ipecacuanha; particularly is it indi- 
cated in cerebral vomiting. Throat symptoms are prominent. There 
is bright red swelling of the throat, the tonsils are glistening, the 
tongue has the strawberry appearance, or if it is coated, the coating is 
thin and the elevated papillae show through. The pulse is full, strong 
and accelerated, and there is great restlessness, as you might expect. 
You ma}' have swelling of the glands, particularly of those about the 
neck. You may have suppression of urine or copious urination. Either 
of these conditions is incident to the Belladonna case. The drowsiness 
or sleep is not that of clearly marked coma. There is not the sleepi- 
ness or stupor that is developed by poisoned blood, in which condition 
the brain is so imperfectly supplied with oxygen that it loses its activ- 
ity. That is not the Belladonna condition. The Belladon?ia sleep may 
be profound; the patient may snore; he may sleep " as heavy as a 
log," but the sleep is not quiet and passive. He cries out in his sleep, 
the muscles twitch, the mouth is in constant motion as if chewing; 
there is grinding of the teeth. In fact there are almost always pres- 
ent symptoms showing that there is irritation of the brain of an active 
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41 8 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

character. When the patient is aroused -from sleep he is violent, look- 
ing around the room wildly, and striking at those about him. When, 
however, the disease from its very onset is of a malignant type, or 
when it becomes so despite Bellado?ina, you cannot change too soon to 
some other remedy. You must at once select another, such for ex- 
ample as Lachesis, Rhus tox., or Hyoscyamus. Lachesis has, in these 
cases, many symptoms similar to those calling for Belladonna. We 
find in both remedies, crying out during sleep, restlessness, irritability 
•on awaking, strawberry tongue, redness of the whole surface of the 
body, suppressed urine, sore throat and vomiting. But wherein do 
they differ ? They differ in the very essence of the disease. In the 
case of Lachesis, the disease is adynamic and the blood poisoning is 
profound. The cerebral symptoms do not develop to a Belladonna 
furore, but there is more stupor. The skin-eruption has not the 
bright erythematous hue of Belladonna, but it is either pale, purplish 
or bluish. It is apt to be irregular, coming out imperfectly. The 
throat shows you not only enlarged glands externally, but swelling of 
the connective tissue all around, in the tissue about the fauces as well 
as in them. The affected parts are rather of a purplish color. If 
there is a tendency to the formation of pus which is offensive Lachesis 
is even better indicated. 

Rhus tox. often precedes Lachesis, particularly when cellulitis is a 
complication and before it has assumed that purplish hue. The in- 
flammation is of a low type. The rash is of the miliary variety (also 
Hyoscyamus, Stramonium, Bryonia and Lachesis). 

Returning again to Belladonna, we find that it sometimes fails in 
cases of the Sydenham variety of scarlatina, although the symptoms 
seem to call for it. The remedies to be thought of in this case are 
these: Sulphur, which, just as strongly as Belladonna, produces a 
smooth erythema of the entire surface of the body, and may, in fact, 
sometimes be indicated in the beginning of the case. 

Calcarea ostrearum, which is complementary to Belladomia, often 
completes what that remedy only partially cures. So in scarlatina, we 
find it indicated when the rash comes out under Belladoyina but begins 
to pale off. The face becomes pale and bloated. The cervical glands 
are swollen. The urine is scant}' or even suppressed, and the brain 
symptoms suggestive of Belladonna may yet be present. 

And Lycopodium which comes in when the child grows stupid and 
yet still awakes screaming in affright, is cross and strikes its at- 
tendants. 



SOIvANACEiE. 419 

Another action of Belladonna on the skin is the production of boils 
or abscesses. You may give it in mastitis or inflammation of the 
mammae. It is here indicated by the violence of the symptoms, by 
the radiating redness, by the throbbing and tendency towards suppur- 
ation. The same symptoms call for it in abscess of any kind and in 
any situation. Even a bubo which is specific in its character may call 
for Belladonna if the symptoms are of the violent character already 
mentioned, and it will here do good service for the time being. We 
also find it the remedy for boils that recur in the spring. 

Belladonna may be used successfully in the summer complaint of 
very young infants. We find it to be the remedy when there is cry- 
ing or screaming hour after hour without any assignable cause. We 
find it also indicated in indigestion of infants, associated with sharp 
pains, suddenly screaming out and bending backward, not forward as 
under Colocynth. Sometimes the transverse colon is so distended that 
it protrudes like a pad in the umbilical region. This symptom some- 
times occurs in lead colic. Then, too, we find Belladoima indicated in 
diarrhoea. It is particularly suited to a dysenteric diarrhoea, that is, 
a diarrhoea from cold with enteritis, the discharges being associated 
with considerable tenesmus (for you must remember that Bellado?ina 
has great affinity for sphincter muscles) , the discharges being slimy 
and bloody. In summer complaint the stools are yellowish or green, 
and contain lumps looking like chalk, consisting no doubt of fat and 
casein. 

You must remember Belladonna as complementary to Chamomilla in 
this colic and diarrhoea of infants. 

In neuralgia, Belladonna is indicated when the pains come on sud- 
denly, last a longer or shorter time, and then as suddenly disappear; 
the pains are lancinating, burning, tearing and shifting. They are 
worse from motion, light, noise, or the slightest jar, and from lying 
down; and are better when sitting up. In prosopalgia the right side 
is mostly attacked, especially the infraorbital nerves, and the face is 
hot and red. In sciatica the pain is worse in the hip-joint at night, 
compelling change of position. All these pains, as well as the fevers, 
are apt to show exacerbation at 2 or 3 p. m., and again at 11 p. m. 
The power of this drug to excite neuralgic pains in any of the spinal 
nerves has led to its recommendation in the atrocious pains which 
mark the beginning of locomotor ataxia. 

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420 A CUNICAI, MATERIA M^DICA. 

Platina and Ferrum carbonicum. The last named has vascular 
excitement, red face, etc., which are very similar to Belladonna. 

Belladonna is very often called for in the treatment of convulsions. 
Epilepsy is readily modified by it, and at times cured. So is that 
dread disease, puerperal eclampsia. And spasms of children during 
dentition, from repelled eruptions, etc., keep the remedy in almost 
daily demand. In all these cases the cerebral symptoms are promi- 
nent. Hot head, flushed face, throbbing carotids, starting from sleep 
in terror, etc., foam at the mouth having an odor of rotten eggs. The 
convulsive movements may be a combination of emprosthotonos and 
opisthotonos; or the patient, usually a child, becomes suddenly rigid, 
stiffens out, with fixed, staring eyes. In puerperal cases the woman 
is unconscious, and each pain re-excites the spasm. Between them 
she tosses about, moaning and crying, or lies in a deep sleep. In 
teething children the gums are swollen and the mouth is hot and dry. 

In epilepsy we should remember Absinthium, which causes conges- 
tion of the cerebral meninges and the medulla and even produces a 
fibrinous exudate under dura mater. Hallucinations are terrible; 
brilliant eyes; epilepsy, followed by obtuse state of the mind, a dazed 
condition. Epileptic vertigo or momentary unconsciousness. Arte- 
misia vulgaris is botanically similar to Absinthium, and helps in epk 
lepsy occurring after fright, and when numerous attacks follow one 
another rapidly. Great restlessness is characteristic of Absinthium, 
Artemesia, Cina, Chamomilla and other members of the order com- 
posite. 

In ailments during dentition compare: Kreosote, child worries all 
night; must be patted and tossed all night; teeth decay rapidly. 
Colchicum, stools changeable; convulsions during teething, reflex from 
abdominal irritation. Cina, convulsions, face pale, child stiffens out; 
restless. Dolichos, gums intensely sensitive; seem to itch. Althusa, 
swollen red gums; vomiting of curdled milk, followed by stupor, etc. 

Glonoiti to Belladonna is similar in child-bed; Chamomilla in chil- 
dren, cross, face red, hot sweat. Opium, dark red face, sopor, espe- 
cially after fright. 

We come now to speak of the action of Belladonna on the female 
genital organs, upon which the drug has a decided action. It causes 
constant and violent bearing down, worse on lying down, and relieved 
by standing. Sei>ia is opposite to this, and Acoriite has bearing down, 
worse from rest and relieved by motion. 



SOLANACE^E. 421 

Under Belladonna the menses are early and copious, bright red, and 
attended with cramp-like tearing pain in the back, arms, etc. ; throb- 
bing headache; most intensely painful congestive dysmenorrhoea; 
bearing down; cutting pain from behind forward or vice versa; men- 
strual flow, which, without any apparent cause, is offensive; lochia 
offensive without apparent cause. Uterine haemorrhages; blood pours 
out and feels hot; uterine haemorrhage with bearing down in the back; 
leucorrhcea with this bearing down; spasmodic contraction of the os 
uteri, which feels hot and very tender; pain in the back as if it would 
break. Labor-pains come and go suddenly; pains violent but inef- 
fective. 

Belladonna may be used during labor when the os does not dilate on 
account of a spasmodic condition of the cervix. The labor-pains are 
violent and cause great distress, and yet the child does not advance. 
The examining finger finds that the os remains rigid and spasmodic. 
A few doses of Belladonna will usually be sufficient to correct the 
trouble. Gelsemium should also be remembered in rigidity of the os 
uteri. 

On the respirator} 7 tract Belladonna has some action. It causes 
cough from tickling in the larynx, as from dust; face red, eyes spark- 
ling; cough dry, hacking, coming in very violent attacks; cough with 
dryness and tightness in the upper part of the chest, worse just after 
lying down in the evenings and at night. The mechanical concussion 
of this cough is more severe than the existing cause warrants, which 
is in keeping with the violence of the drug's action. The sputum is 
composed of blood-tinged mucus. Larynx sore and hot internally, 
worse from pressure. Burning in the chest; sticking pains from 
coughing and motion, but not affected by breathing. The pains are 
worse under the right clavicle. Pressing in the chest and between the 
scapulae, with dyspnoea, walking and sitting. 

Calcarea ostrearum also has cough just after lying down. 

Phosphorus differs from Belladoima in having the irritation lower 
down in the respiratory tract. It has more rawness, and the larynx is 
sore, worse from talking or pressure thereon. In Belladonna it is only 
sore from pressure. 

Under Causticum the cough is tickling; the voice is almost gone; 
there are soreness and rawness of the trachea, but not of the chest. 

Rumex has dry cough from tickling in the supra-sternal fossa, ag- 
gravated by the least cool air or by deep inspiration. 



422 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

With Cepa the cough causes a feeling as if the larynx would split; 
it makes the patient cringe; coryza. 

Lachesis has cough from tickling lower down than in the Belladonna 
case, and is aggravated by the slightest pressure of the clothing. 

Belladonna acts in muscular tissue and also in the joints. It is one 
of our best remedies both in acute and chronic rheumatism. The 
affected joints are swollen, red, shining and often have red streaks 
radiating from them along the limbs.. It is one of our best remedies 
for stiff neck caused by cutting the hair, getting the head wet or sit- 
ting with the head and neck exposed to a draft. Bryonia, Nux vom- 
ica and Guaiacum are nearly related in this affection. 

Belladonna is complementary to Calcarea ostrearum. It is antidoted 
by Cojfea, Nux vomica and Opium. Hyoscyamus antidotes its abuse in 
skin affections and cough. 



LECTURE XL. 

STRAMONIUM AND HYOSCYAMUS. 

Datura Stramonium. 

Stramonium stands between Hyoscyamus and Belladomia. It ex- 
cites the sensorium and perverts its functions. The special senses are 
affected. Thus there is double vision. Objects appear double or 
oblique. The mental symptoms are as follows: the mania or delirium 
is of a wild character, the face being of a bright red; the eyes have a 
wild and suffused look, although they are not so thoroughly congested 
as under Belladomia. The hallucinations terrify the patient; he sees 
objects springing up from every corner; animals of every kind and 
grotesque creatures arise, and terrify him. The patient, if a child, 
cries for its mother even when she is near. The eyes are open and 
the pupils widely dilated. If an adult, he is decidedly loquacious in 
his delirium. At times he manifests a merry mood in his loquacity, 
and at others he has the "horrors." At one moment he will be 
laughing, singing and making faces, and at another praying, crying 
for help, etc. He often has photomania or desire for light. He seems 
to have great fear of the dark. Sometimes he insists upon it that he 
is conversing with spirits. Again the mania assumes a silly character. 
He talks in a foolish and nonsensical manner and laughs at his own 
attempts at wit. The loquacity differs from that of Lachesis. In 
Stramonium the loquacity consists of a simple garrulity, whereas in 
Lachesis it is a jumping from subject to subject. During the delirium 
of Stramonium, as under many narcotics, the patient frequently at- 
tempts to escape. 

Agaricus seems to stand between Stramonium and Lachesis, having 
some resemblance to both. 

A condition simulating that of hydrophobia sometimes calls for 
Stramonium. In this state any bright object causes furious delirium, 
spasm of the throat and horrible convulsions. The dilirium, especi- 
ally in typhoid conditions, is excessive and seems to exhaust the pa- 
tient completely. 

The spasmodic motions of Stramonium are characterized by grace- 



424 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

fulness rather than angularity; they are more gyratory than jerking. 
Especially is this condition noted in young children when there is a 
non-appearance of the eruption during one of the exanthemata. Stra- 
monium acts better on children and young infants than does Belladonna. 
Take, for instance, a case of measles. The rash does not come out 
properly; the child is hot; its face is bright red; it tosses about, cry- 
ing out in a frightened manner as soon as it falls asleep; it knows no 
one; its movements, though convulsive, are not jerking and angular. 
This is a case for Stramonium. 

Similar to Stramonium in these cases is Cuprum metallicum, which 
has, like the former remedy, aggravation on arousing from sleep, and 
also this same terror. It is characterized by the violence of its symp- 
toms. The abnormal movements are decidedly angular. The face is 
apt to be of a bluish color. It is especially indicated when the rash 
has been repercussed and these violent cerebral symptoms appear. 

Another similar remedy to Stramonium is Zincum metallicum. This, 
too, has crying out in sleep and awaking from sleep terrified. There 
is considerable evidence of debility, the child being so weak that it has 
not sufficient strength to develop an eruption. 

Another nervous affection which yields to Stramonium, or is at least 
modified by it, is nervous asthma; the patient can scarcely draw in 
the breath on account of the spasm; there is aggravation from talking. 
Stramonium is also indicated in locomotor ataxia. The patient can- 
not walk in the dark or with his eyes closed. If he attempts to do so 
he reels and staggers. 

Mental abnormalities as to shape seem to be characteristic of the 
Stramonium patient. For instance, he imagines that he is very large, 
or that one arm is very large. Sometimes he feels as if he w T ere double, 
or that he had three legs instead of two. These errors as to shape and 
size in the Stramonium patient bring to mind several other remedies, 
particularly Baptisia, which, however, does not in the least resemble 
Stramonium in other symptoms. It is to be remembered that both of 
these remedies have these illusions as to shape. The Baptisia patient 
feels that he is double, or, what is more characteristic, that his body 
is scattered about, and he must try to get the pieces together. Other 
remedies have this symptom; we find it under Petroleum and Thuja. 
Under the latter remedy the patient imagines that he is made of glass, 
and he walks very carefully for fear that he will be broken. These 
symptoms may indicate the drug in typhoid fever. 



STRAMONIUM. 425 

In erysipelas, with involvement of the brain, you may find Stra- 
monium indicated when the disease assumes an adynamic type. The 
symptoms are very much like those of Rhus tox., but you distinguish 
it from the latter by the violent cerebral symptoms, the delirium, the 
restlessness, and the screaming out as if terrified. And yet with all 
these symptoms there is little or no fever. 

Stramonium may also be called for in the incipiency of scarlatina 
when the rash fails to appear and the brain suffers, but it has less 
fever and throat symptoms than has Belladonna. There may be sup- 
pression of urine, which is especially characteristic of this drug if it is 
free from pain or other discomfort. 

As in all remedies that irritate the brain, we find grinding of the 
teeth. We may also find stuttering, which, by the way, has been 
compared to the spasmodic urination of children, when the least ex- 
citement will cause them to pass urine in little jets; in a similar way 
are the words jerked out. Particularly does the patient find it diffi- 
cult to combine vowels with consonants. 

Another remedy for stuttering or stammering is Bovista. 

The tongue of the Stramonium patient is red or whitish, and covered 
with fine red dots, and is dry and parched. In some cases it is swollen 
and hangs out of the mouth. 

Stramonium may excite a decided nymphomania, during which the 
woman, though very chaste when in her normal condition, becomes 
exceedingly lewd in her songs and speech. She may become verjr 
violent in her manner. Often these symptoms occur in women before 
menstruation, in which case Stramonium acts most admirably. The 
menstrual flow is apt to be very profuse, showing that it is the high 
degree of congestion that produces the nymphomania. There is a 
strong odor about these women, reminding one of the odor of animals 
in the rutting season. 

I would also like to call your attention to the diarrhoea which Stra- 
monium cures. The stools are very offensive, smelling almost like 
carrion. They are apt to be 3 r ellow T ish. They may or may not be 
dark, but the offensiveness is the most important symptom. 

Absence of pain is characteristic of Stramonium excepting in ab- 
scess, particularly when it affects the left hip-joint, in which case it 
may be so intense as to throw the patient into convulsions. 

The antidote for Stramonium poisoning is lemon juice. 



426 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 



Hyoscyamus Nigkr. 

Botanically and, in a measure, therapeutically, Hyoscyamus is simi- 
lar to Belladonna. This interesting drug, though innocuous to some 
animals, is poisonous to fowls, and has received the name of henbane. 

Hyoscyamus seems to be especially adapted to acute mania, to mania 
without any evidence of absolute inflammation, to mania which has 
for its key-note extreme excitation of the sensorium. The patient, 
under such circumstances, has many strange notions, all arising from 
these abnormal impulses. He imagines, for instance, that he is about 
to be poisoned. Possibly he will refuse your medicine, declaring in 
angry tones that it will poison him. Or he imagines that he is pur- 
sued by some demon, or that somebody is trying to take his life. This 
makes him exceedingly restless. He springs out of bed to get away 
from his imaginary foe. The senses, too, are disturbed. Objects 
look too large or else are of a blood-red color. Sometimes objects ap- 
pear as if they were too distinct; that is, they have an unnatural 
sharpness of outline. The patient talks of subjects connected with 
everyday life, jumping from one subject to another pretty much as in 
Lachesis; all this time the face is not remarkably red, possibly it is. 
only slightly flushed. The pupils are usually dilated, sleep is greatly 
disturbed, the patient lies awake for hours. As the mania advances 
he seems to lie in a sort of stupor, and yet it is not a real stupor, be- 
cause the slightest noise rouses him into all these forms of violent 
mania. Every little impression causes excitement of the sensorium. 
Accompanying these symptoms we find characteristic debility, this 
debility showing itself in the great prostration on every attempt to 
move or walk about, and in paralysis of one or more muscles following 
the maniacal attacks. As the sensorium becomes more and more de- 
pressed he answers questions slowly or else gives irrelevant answers. 
Sometimes he will be in a stupor from which he can be readily aroused 
and will answer your questions quite correctly, but he will relapse into 
the stupid state immediately. With this there is a sort of adynamic 
condition of the brain resulting from this prolonged over-excitement, 
and in this condition we still find delirium, but the patient is greatly 
prostrated, stool and urine pass involuntarily, the pulse is no longer 
full and accelerated, but it is quick, rapid and without volume, and 
irregular. Stupor is now complete, sordes appear on the tongue and 



HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 427 

around the teeth, the lungs are engorged, not from a pneumonic pro- 
cess, but because of hypostatic congestion. Associated with this we 
have snoring-rattling during breathing. The mouth is opened, the 
lower jaw dropped, and the patient lies quietly with occasional twitch- 
ing of groups of muscles. This condition will soon be followed by 
death unless relief can be obtained. At other times we find the de- 
lirium returning anew and the symptoms take another form. The 
patients are silly and laugh in a flippant manner. Sometimes, for 
hours at a time, they will have a silly, idiotic expression of the face. 
Again they become exceedingly lascivious, throw the covers off and 
attempt to uncover the genital region. The abnormal movements ac- 
companying these symptoms are rather angular; they are not all of 
the gyratory character significant of Stramonium. 

Still another form in which the cerebral symptoms of Hyoscyamus 
may appear, particularly in women, is jealousy, and also the effects of 
powerful emotions, as disappointed love, fright and other emotions 
that are more or less exciting and at the same time depressing. 

Coming now to inflammation of the brain or meninges, we find 
Hyoscyamus sometimes indicated when we have present some of the 
symptoms already enumerated and in addition to these symptoms relief 
from shaking the head or sitting with the head bent forward. Here 
it is exactly opposite to Belladonna. The patient complains of pulsat- 
ing waves through the head. 

We have a cough quite characteristic of Hyoscyamus. This cough 
comes from elongation of the uvula, the result of relaxation or inflam- 
mation. The uvula hangs down and rests on the root of the tongue, 
causing irritation and the consequent cough. This cough is worse 
when lying down, the patient having almost complete relief wmen sit- 
ting up. It is usually worse at night and also after eating and drink- 
ing and from talking, 

There are two or three remedies to be compared with Hyoscyamus 
here. One of them is Rumex crispus. This is a splendid remedy for 
tickling cough from an annoying tickling in the supra-sternal fossa. 
The patient wants to breathe warm air. Anything which disturbs the 
temperature of the respired air excites the tickling, and hence the 
cough. The tickling may extend down into the chest and still Rumex 
be indicated. 

Natrum muriaticum also has a dry cough from elongated uvula. 

There is another remedy which has the same symptom, and one 



428 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

which has been confirmed, too. It is Ment 'ha piperita. It is inferior 
to Rumex, however. I have heard it said that eating apples will re- 
lieve this kind of cough. 

Hyoscyamus is also to be considered as a remedy for sleeplessness. 
It is useful in the sleeplessness of children when they twitch in sleep, 
cry out and tremble, and awaken frightened. 

It is also a valuable drug in convulsions. It is one of the most re- 
liable remedies we have for epileptic convulsions, that is, if there is no 
other remedy indicated. In the Hyoscyamus convulsion we find the 
patient twitching and jerking. These angular motions that I have 
described seem to be provoked by eating. Especially is this to be 
noted in children; the child will wake up from sleep hungry; the face 
is apt to be of a deep red color, almost on the purple during the par- 
oxysm. There are also frothing at the mouth and biting of the 
tongue. These symptoms are almost always followed by profound 
sleep. Convulsions that are puerperal in origin also call for Hyoscya- 
mus, which may readily be separated from Belladonna and Stramonium 
by the prominence of nervous agitation, reflex excitability, etc. 

In epilepsy compare Cicuta mrosa, which has shocks from the head 
down, staring eyes, screaming, red face, limbs greatly distorted, respi- 
ration greatly impeded. Trembling before and after the spasm and 
great weakness afterwards. See also CEnanthe crocata. 

We have Hyoscyamus indicated also in chorea. The patients are 
very weak with tottering gait. They seem to have abnormal impres- 
sions of distances. They reach for something that seems to be just 
within their grasp, when, in reality, it is on the other side of the 
room. 

Stramoniu?n is also a remedy to be thought of in chorea, particularly 
if the brain is affected. The child awakens from sleep with a scream. 
It sings and laughs without reason. 

Still another remedy is Veratrum viride, which is particularly indi- 
cated when there is great congestion in the nervous centres, and the 
pulse is much over-excited. 

Now let me speak of the fevers of Hyoscyamus. I have already 
given you the symptoms which would indicate the drug in typhoid 
fever. We have to see how we may apply it in the treatment of fevers 
with skin symptoms, as scarlatina. Hyoscyamus is indicated in scarla- 
tina, although not very frequently; yet it may be called for in cases 
that have been spoiled by Belladonna. The rash is of a miliary type 



HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 429 

and is dark or dark red in color. It is rather scanty, too, from par- 
tial repercussion. There are also picking at the bed-clothes, crying 
out in sleep and stupor, all denoting the alarming progress made by 
the disease. 

Stramonium is indicated in scarlatina when the symptoms are vio- 
lent, something like those we have seen in Belladonna. The face is 
very red, the rash seems to be scattered over the surface, the prostra- 
tion is excessive, the skin is apt to be very dry and hot without as 
much of the hot sweat as we have found under Belladonna. If sweat 
does come it does not relieve. 

Now let us compare the three remedies, Belladonna, Stramo?iium 
and Hyoscyamus, one with the other. In general, we find that Bella- 
donna causes more congestion or inflammation of the brain, Stramo- 
nium congestion with more sensorial excitement, and Hyoscyamus 
more nervous irritation and less of congestion and inflammation than 
either of the others. 

The type of the delirium in Belladonna is wild; there is a desire to 
escape; the patient bites and strikes; the face is red and the eyes suf- 
fused with violent throbbing of the carotids. He either complains of 
these hallucinations on closing the eyes or he stares at one point with 
eyes wide open. Then, too, there is sleepiness with inability to sleep. 
If there is stupor, it is rather the result of the congestion and inflam- 
mation of the brain, and is attended with some symptoms of irritation 
so that the patient, when aroused, is violent or he alternates between 
delirium and stupor, there being no evidence of serious blood changes. 

Hyoscyamus has a similar desire to escape; the patient attempts to 
bite and strike those about him; he has the same desire to uncover, 
but he lacks the violent throbbing of the carotids and intensity of the 
redness of the face and suffusion of the eyes. The Hyoscyamus patient 
has a particular aversion to light and has especially marked the fear of 
being poisoned or of being betrayed. Lying quietly in the bed, he 
suddenly sits up and stares around as if looking for some one whom 
he expected to see in the room. At a word from the nurse he lies 
down again and goes off into a sleep. He may expose his sexual 
organs. His wakefulness is very different from that calling for Bella- 
donna. He is nervous, whining, crying and twitching. 

Phosphorus stands nearest to Hyoscyamus in this desire to uncover 
the person. But Veratrum album is also closely allied in nympho- 
mania. 



430 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Hyoscyamus is used very extensively in insane asylums for acute 
non-inflammatory mania. You will always find these patients weak; 
the pulse often lacks volume; they either have no appetite whatever 
or else an enormous appetite. Eating is at once followed by an aggra- 
vation of the symptoms. Allopathic physicians use very largely the 
alkaloid Hyoscyamia. This is very similar to Kali bromatum, having 
the power of exciting the sensorium without inflaming the brain. 
Thus we find Kali bromatum indicated in the acute mania of children 
when they arouse from sleep with screams and imagine that some one 
is going to hurt them. The patient may also have the insane impres- 
sion that he is to be murdered or that his honor is at stake, or that 
those in his house dislike him and intend to do him harm. 

Hyoscyamus is indicated in these cases particularly if they are puer- 
peral in their origin. We also find these symptoms of Hyoscyamus in 
typhoid fevers. The tendency, you will see, is to run into a low t}^pe 
of disease; it is more of an adynamic remedy than Belladonna. In 
typhoid fever you should compare Phosphoric acid, Rhus, Lycopodium 
and Lachesis. But all of these, excepting perhaps Phosphoric acid, act 
more powerfully than Hyoscyamus and hence follow Hyoscyamus well, 
the latter being insufficient. 

Belladonna may be indicated in the beginning of the disease when 
there is the wild and furious delirium. Hyoscyamus comes in later 
when the stupor becomes more marked; when the patient picks at the 
bed-clothes or at his fingers in a somnolent sort of way and occasion- 
ally reaches out as if grasping for something in the air. You will 
find the tongue, in such cases, dry and red; speech, of course, is diffi- 
cult; and, as the case progresses, we have the sordes on the teeth with 
involuntary stool and urine and dropping of the lower jaw. I would 
like to say here, by way of caution, that in some instances, although a 
case for Hyoscyamus is clearly made out by these symptoms, yet it 
does not always act. I cannot tell you why. I can see no cause ex- 
cept that the drug does not act deeply enough. In such cases, I usu- 
ally look up Lachesis, Lycopodium, Muriatic acid and Arsenicum. 

In fevers of this type Stramonium differs from Bdlado?ina and 
Hyoscyamus. The patient sees objects which seem to rise in every 
corner of the room and move towards him. He has a mania for light 
and company, which is just the opposite of Belladonna, is excessively 
loquacious and laughs, sings, swears and prays almost in the same 
breath. The desire to escape is present; there is sudden spasmodic 



HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 43 1 

lifting of the head from the pillow and then dropping it back again; 
he awakens from sleep in fright and terror, not knowing those around 
him; the motions that he makes are quite graceful and easy, although 
they may be violent. At times, the body is bathed in a hot sweat 
which does not give any relief to the patient. The desire to uncover 
is similar to that of Hyoscyamus, but it is more an uncovering of the 
whole body rather than of the sexual organs. The tongue is often 
soft, taking the imprint of the teeth; screaming in sleep, often with 
hiccough; the face is usually bright red, but not as deeply congested 
as in Belladonna. 



LECTURE XLI. 

TABACUM, DULCAMARA, CAPSICUM AND GLONOIN. 

Tabacum. 

Tabacum contains several active ingredients, the most important of 
which is Nicotine. Ever since smoking was an " art," attempts have 
been made to get rid of this Nicotine. Every one acknowledges that 
it has a serious effect on the body. There are three groups of symp- 
toms which may follow the use of tobacco. The primary symptoms 
are the well-known gastric symptoms, deathly nausea and vomiting. 
The patient is deathly pale, does not care whether he lives or dies. 
Sometimes cold sweat breaks out on the body. The secondary effects 
are more remote, coming months or even years after using the weed, 
and these are dyspepsia, amblyopia and also some symptoms of the 
heart. 

These symptoms of the heart I would have you remember. If they 
are not caused by tobacco, Tabacum will be a very valuable remedy in 
their cure. I refer especially to dilated heart when these symptoms 
are present: there are frequent pallor, with lividity of the face; diar- 
rhoea, alternating with constipation; palpitation when lying on the 
left side; muscse volitantes, tinnitus aurium and dry cough, which is 
cardiac in its origin; paroxysms of suffocation, with tightness across 
the upper part of the chest; feeble and irregular pulse; pains like 
those of angina pectoris shoot from the heart down the left arm or up 
into the neck, and involve different plexuses of nerves; the extremi- 
ties are cold and covered with a clammy sweat. Another symptom 
that may come as a secondary symptom of tobacco is neuralgia of the 
face. This symptom, when thus caused, is curable by Sepia, as is also 
the dyspepsia. 

Impotence also follows tobacco, and often yields to Lycopodhmi. 

The tertiary effects of tobacco include apoplexy. 

Tobacco, in its effect on the gastric organs, very much resembles 
Hydrocyanic acid, Veratrum and Camphor. For instance, we find it 
indicated in cholera, when the nausea and cold sweat persist after 
Veratrum, Secale or Camphor has stopped the diarrhoea. This nausea 
is accompanied by burning heat about the abdomen, the rest of the 



DULCAMARA. 433 

body being cold. The patient persists in uncovering the ab- 
domen. 

I would remark here that this kind of sickness suggests Tabacum in 
renal colic or in strangulated hernia. There are this deathly nausea 
and sickness, with slimy stool, from irritation of the bowels. 

The resemblance to Hydrocyanic acid is found in asphyxia. The 
latter drug acts upon the medulla, and, hence, upon the heart through 
the pneumogastric nerves. Consequently, the symptoms you would 
expect it to produce are those of the heart and lungs. We find it pro- 
ducing convulsions, with drawing at the nape of the neck from irrita- 
tion at the base of the brain. Along with this, respiration is irregu- 
lar or gasping, and there is great distress about the heart, with re- 
peated weak ' ' spells ' ' and coldness and blueness of the surface of the 
body. It is well to remember this fact in ursemic convulsions when 
the medula is affected. Hydrocyanic acid is then our only hope. 

Tabacum is used as an antidote to the bad effects of Cicuta virosa. 

The primary effects of tobacco are generally relieved by Ipecac. 

Nux vomica is indicated for the bad taste in the mouth and the head- 
ache worse in the morning from excessive smoking. 

It is said that Plantago major produces a distaste for tobacco. I 
have seen one or two patients who, after taking it, supposed they had 
contracted a dislike to tobacco. 

Dulcamara. 

Dulcamara, or the "bitter-sweet," contains a small quantity of Sola- 
nine, a much smaller quantity, in fact, than an} 7 other member of the 
group. The tender leaves and twigs have been used for the prepara- 
tion of the tincture. Several accounts of poisoning from the berries 
of the Dulcamara have been recorded. The symptoms thus produced 
are hard griping pains in the bowels, followed by unconsciousness and 
spasms which are tetanic, and are accompanied by hot, dry skin, tris- 
mus, loud rattling breathing, and, in one case, death. 

The ordinary symptoms produced by the drug are not so severe. 
We find as the very central point around which all the other symp- 
toms of the drug group, this one: aggravation from cold, damp 
weather or from changes from hot to cold weather, especially if these 
changes are sudden. Thus we find Dulcamara useful in rheumatism 
made worse by sudden changes in the weather; twitching of the mus- 
cles of the eyelids or mouth whenever the weather becomes damp; dry 
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434 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

coryza, sore throat, with stiffness of the neck; colic from cold, 
especially with diarrhoea at night; earache, when it returns with 
every such change in weather. 

Dulcamara has a marked influence on the nervous system; but here 
again its use in practice is often based on the above aggravation. We 
have the tongue paralyzed in damp weather, with impaired speech; 
hyperemia of the spinal cord with the paretic state belonging to that 
disease when caused by lying on damp, cold ground, and intensified 
by every return of damp weather. It is also indicated in paralysis of 
the bladder aggravated by damp weather. 

It is also of use in incipient paralysis of the lungs in old people, es- 
pecially if the symptoms are aggravated by change in the weather. 

Dulcamara has a specific influence on the lining membrane of the 
bladder, causing catarrh of that organ. The urine is very offensive, 
and is loaded with mucus. 

It also exerts a marked action on the skin. Thus, it develops a 
bright red eruption on the surface of the body. Here and there will 
be large wheals, which may be white or red, and along with these 
there is usually burning and itching. 

It is indicated in urticaria traceable to gastric disorder when there is 
relief from cold air. 

The complement of Dulcamara is Baryta carb., which also has aggra- 
vation in cold weather, especially in scrofulous children. 

Capsicum Annuum. 

Capsicum possesses few, if any, of the narcotic properties of the 
Solanaceae, but it has, highly marked, the irritating properties of the 
group in high degree; but little of the drug is required to produce 
this irritation. It is eliminated from the body through the kidneys, 
producing strangury with burning when passing water. This drug 
acts best in persons of lax fibre, rather stout in build, who do not re- 
spond readily to medicine because they are of lax fibre, and also be- 
cause of impaired digestion. 

The Capsicum patient has weak digestion or weak stomach, hence 
the whole man is weak. Such patients are irritable and easily an- 
gered. This is true of either adults or children. They are worse 
from the least draft of air, even though this air be warm. They are 
clumsy in their motions. 



glonoin. 435 

They are subject to chills and fever. The chill commences in the 
back. Although the patient is thirsty, yet drinking causes shivering. 

The Capsicum patient is subject to catarrhal asthma with red face 
and well-marked sibilant rales. He coughs, and a successful cough 
raises phlegm, which relieves the asthma. 

Capsicum has a symptom of the chest not often met with in practice, 
and that is very offensive breath during the cough. 

It also has a well-marked action on the ear, especially on the middle 
ear. It is of use in rupture of the membrana tympani from disease 
when there is soreness or inflammation of the mastoid process of the 
temporal bone. 

For abscess of the mastoid process the preferable remedies are 
Aurum and Nit?ic acid. 

For chronic suppuration of the middle ear you may think of Silicea. 

Capsicum is of importance in diseases of the throat. It is indicated 
in diphtheria or in gangrene of the throat when there are burning 
blisters in the roof of the mouth and when there is an odor from the 
mouth like that of carrion. The throat feels constricted as if spas- 
modically closed. The patient is worse when not swallowing and in 
extreme cases greatly prostrated. 

The most similar remedy here is Cantharis. 

Capsicum is also indicated in elongation of the uvula. 

In dysentery it is indicated when the stools are frequent but small 
and attended with violent tenesmus and burning in both rectum and 
bladder. The stools are bloody and slimy and contain shaggy pieces. 
There is thirst, and yet drinking causes shuddering. 

Glonoin. 

Blood. 
Glonoin. \ Trauma. 

(^ Convulsions. 

Glonoin or nitro-glycerine is considered in this part of the course of 
lectures on account of its symptomatic resemblance to Belladonna. It 
is a ver)' easy drug to study. Though its main point of attack is the 
blood, it does not affect the quality of that fluid so much as it does its 
circulation. It acts very quickly and very violently. The key-note 
to the whole symptomatology of the drug is expressed in this one sen- 
tence : "A tendency to sudden and violent irregula? ities of the circulation . ' ' 



43^ A CUNICAIv MATERIA MEDICA. 

With that for our foundation we can easily work out the other symp- 
toms. The symptoms which are traceable to the irregularities in the 
circulation are these : very characteristic, indeed, is a throbbing head- 
ache. The pain may be in the whole head, or it may be in the fore- 
head, vertex, occiput or any one part of the head. This throbbing is 
not a mere sensation; it is an actual fact. It really seems as though 
the blood-vessels would burst, so violent is the congestive action of the 
drug. The throbbing is synchronous with every impulse of the heart. 
The blood seems to surge in one great current up the spine and into 
the head. The bloodvessels externally become distended. The ex- 
ternal jugulars look like two tortuous cords, the carotids throb vio- 
lently and are hard, tense and unyielding to pressure. The face is 
>deep red. This throbbing is either associated with dull, distressing 
..aching or with sharp, violent pains. 

We find Glo?ioi?i applicable to sunstroke, indicated either by the 
:symptoms already mentioned, or by symptoms which show that the 
prolonged congestion has produced depressing effects upon the brain. 
The face becomes rather pale, the pulse, which was at first full, grows 
soft and feeble, and the respiration labored. There is not as much 
pressure about the chest as about the medulla oblongata, thus inter- 
fering with the nerves of respiration. The eyes are often fixed. The 
patient may even be unconscious. Glonoin, then, we find to be our 
best remedy for the effects of heat, whether the trouble arises from 
the direct rays of the sun, from hot weather or from working in the 
intense heat of a furnace, as in the case of foundrymen and machinists. 
These effects of the sun or heat are not confined to the head alone, 
but may involve the whole body. Thus we note oppression of breath- 
ing, with palpitation of the heart and nausea and vomiting, with white 
coated tongue. This nausea is not gastric in origin, but cerebral, as 
under Rhus tox., Belladonna and Apomorphine. The appetite is gone; 
there is no desire for food; there is a horrible sunken feeling in the 
epigastrium, and often, too, diarrhoea. All these symptoms call for 
Glonoin. 

Still other effects of this congestion are found in the eye. The eyes 
feel as if too large and protrude as though bursting out of the head. 
Glo?win is indicated in eye diseases arising from exposure to very 
bright light, as in the case of one obliged to work at a desk beneath a 
hot, bright light, as a bright Argand burner. If you should examine 
such an eye with the ophthalmoscope, you will find the bloodvessels of 
the retina distended or, in extreme cases, apoplexy of the retina. 



GLONOIN. 437 

Again the effects of the increased blood pressure under Glonoin may 
be noticed in the symptoms of the mouth. For instance, there is diffi- 
culty in conversation from diminished power of the tongue, this due 
to pressure on the cerebral centres. Wine aggravates all these symp- 
toms. Sometimes the congestion is so great as to make the patient 
frantic ; he tries to escape, to jump out of the window. 

Another effect of the cerebral congestion is convulsions. Glonoin 
is an admirable remedy for the convulsions coming on during labor, 
puerperal convulsions. The face is bright red and puffed, the pulse 
full and hard and the urine albuminous. The patient froths at the 
mouth ; she is unconscious. The hands are clenched, the thumbs be- 
ing in the palms of the hands. At other times the hands are stretched 
out as under Secale, and the patient is unconscious. I think that 
Glonoin is one of the best remedies we have for the congestive form of 
puerperal convulsions, that form which is announced by rush of blood 
to the head, especially if there is albuminuria. It is also invaluable 
in congestion to the head from suppressed menses. 

The mental symptoms traceable to this congestion are syncope or 
sudden fainting, the face being pale or often livid, black spots before 
the eyes, sudden onset of unconsciousness, well-known streets seem 
strange to the patient. This last s} 7 mptom is one decidedly dangerous. 
It may be the forerunner of an actual attack. A person who is sub- 
ject to apoplectic congestion is suddenly seized in the streets with one 
of these attacks and does not know where he is. Glonoi?iis the remedy 
for him. 

Another remedy for this loss of location is Petroleum. 

Glonoin is also useful for the bad effects of fear. I mentioned that 
briefly when speaking of Opium. There is horrible apprehension and 
also sometimes the fear of being poisoned. 1ms last symptom places 
it alongside of Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Rhus fox. , Bromide of Potassium 
and Baptisia. 

Another use of Glonoin is its application to trauma. It has been 
found an excellent remedy for pains and other abnormal sensations, 
following some time after local injuries. Long after the reception of 
an injury, the part pains or feels sore, or an old scar breaks out again; 
then Glonoin seems to relieve. 

Natrum sulphuricum should be compared, especially after head in- 
juries. 



438 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

It is necessary for you to remember the distinctions between Bella- 
donna and Glonoin, because they meet in the congestions and inflam- 
mations of the brain in children and old persons. They divide the 
honors in these diseases, because each has a number of confirmed cures. 
We have the cri encephalique in Glonoin which is not so marked under 
Belladon?ia y so it would seem that the Glonoin case is more severe than 
that of Belladonna. The symptoms which would help you to differen- 
tiate the two drugs are these: First, Glonoin; the head symptoms are 
worse by bending the head backward; worse in damp weather; worse 
from the application of cold water, which may even cause spasms; 
better from uncovering; better in the open air; sometimes the patient 
is obliged to get up and walk about despite the soreness that jarring 
causes. A very marked symptom which anticipates puerperal con- 
vulsions, and which is an early symptom in congestion of the brain 
from suppressed menses, and a prominent symptom in the bad effects 
of the heat of the sun, is a feeling as if the head were enormously large. 
The head seems as if it were expanding. Although that symptom is 
found under Belladonna, it is not so characteristic of that drug as of 
Glonoin. 

Now Belladonna has relief from bending backward, from sitting up 
with the head quiet Belladonna usually has relief from covering the 
head, while Glonoin has relief from uncovering, although the latter 
symptom is of less importance than the others. 

The best antidote to Glonoiji, that I know of, is Aconite. 



LECTURE XLIL 



LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM 



Lycopodium clavatum. < 



I. 


Constitution. 


2. 


Blood. 




a. Fevers. 




b. Ebullitions; pulse 




c. Varices. 




d. Typhoid. 




e. Scarlatina. 




f. Diphtheria. 


3- 


Liver. 


4- 


Dropsy. 


5- 


Catarrhs. 


6. 


Kidneys. 



Lycopodium or club moss is a member of the Lycopodiaceae, so 
called from their resemblance to a wolf's foot. It has long been used 
in pyrotechnic displays, for the production of artificial lightning and in 
legerdemain. 

In legerdemain it is used as a coating to the hand, after which that 
member may be dipped into water and removed from thence perfectly 
dry. As a medicine, it was considered wholly inert by members of the 
allopathic school of practice, and was used only as a drying powder by 
nurses. Nevertheless in the experience of some it was found quite 
severe symptoms followed the use of this powder. Others, on the 
contran', used it for months, and years, and declared it to be posi- 
tively inert. Now why was this? The Cryptogamia, unlike other 
plants, instead of seeds, have spores, which are sometimes arranged 
under the leaves, as in the case of Lycopodium. Now these spores 
have a hard, shell-like covering, within which we find a small quan- 
tity of oily substance, which is the active part of the spore. As long 
as the Lycopodium used consisted of unbroken spores it was inert; 
when, however, these were ruptured, it became active and symptoms 
followed its local application. 

In the preparation of Lycopodium, great care should be taken to see 



44° A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

that all the spores are broken. When thus prepared, we have in it a 
truly valuable medicine which Hahnemann proved for us, and one, 
too, which we need in practice almost every day. I love to extol the 
virtues of this remarkable drug, for Hahnemann, with his infallable 
Law, rescued it from its ignominious use as an infant powder, and ele- 
vated it to the highest rank among the antipsorics. 

In order that you may understand the symptomatology of the drug, 
I have arranged the schema which you see before you on the board. 

First of all, we will study the general character of the drug. Lyco- 
podium affects profoundly the vital forces, causing a series of symp- 
toms that indicate it as invaluable in brain fag, typhus, scarlatina, 
etc., when the brain symptoms point to an alarming paralytic state. 

We find it indicated most frequently in emaciated persons who are 
muscularly weak; the mind, however, is well developed. Particularly 
is this noticeable in children. They are precocious and unusually ob- 
stinate. The emaciation is noticed particularly about the upper part 
of the body and neck. There is a predisposition to liver troubles, and 
also to affections of the lungs; the face is often pale and sallow; the 
eyes being sunken and surrounded with dark bluish circles. Often, 
too, the face is furrowed with creases and wrinkles, indicating deep- 
seated disease. The face readily flushes, the cheeks become red. 
This is often so in the evening and after eating. As to temperament, 
the Lycopodium patient is rather impatient and irritable, and easily 
made angry. At other times, sadness or tearfulness is marked. When 
sick, such patients are apt to become domineering and rather imperious 
in manner; or to consider themselves of great importance and those 
about them of no importance, so they order others about with an 
angry vehement manner. As to the intellectual part of the mind, we 
find the memory always weak. Thus we find the drug often indicated 
when there are frequent mistakes in speech. The patient forgets 
words or syllables. He cannot read, for the meaning of certain words 
is confused; he cannot find the right word while speaking, but if the 
subject is very important, so as to call forth his utmost energy, words 
flow with ease. Compare Sulphur, Lache sis, Fluoric acid, Silicea. 

All the symptoms are aggravated from 4 to 8 p. m. Lycopodium is 
not the only remedy that has this. It is also found under Sabadilla, 
Nux moschata and Helleborus. Helleborus bears some relation to Lyco- 
t>odium, not only because of its aggravation from 4 to 8 p. m., but also 
because of the arousing effect of directing the will to the work. 



LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 44 1 

The changes made in the blood by Lycopodium are not numerous. 
In febrile states we sometimes find it indicated by chill coming at three 
or four o'clock every or every other afternoon; this chill being fol- 
lowed by sweat without intervening heat; or the case may be charac- 
terized by chill coining at this hour and sour vomiting, with or with- 
out heat. 

The pulse in Lycopodium is not very characteristic. In the provings 
the pulse is changed very little, except that it is slightly increased in 
frequency towards evening. The arms feel numb, heavy and weak, 
relieved by using them. 

Next, I have to notice varicose veins. Lycopodium, by reason of 
its action on the liver, tends to produce swelling or enlargement of the 
veins, particularly those which are more or less imperfectly supplied 
with valves; so we have varices characteristic of Lycopodium; varices 
in the legs, particularly the right; varices of the genital organs; the 
labia are swollen by varicose veins; this latter condition occurring 
during pregnancy, being a symptom which calls for Lycopodhim; also 
Carbo vegetabilis. 

So, too, we often find naevi modified by Lycopodium. Now, do not 
suppose that every nsevus is curable by medicine, for such is not the 
case. It is, however, your duty to cure them by medicine when you 
can. For this purpose, Lycopodium is one of the remedies. Still 
another remedy, and one, too, which is better than any other, and has 
also produced naevi, is Fluoric acid. 

So, too, carrying out a similar line of symptoms, you will find Lyco- 
podium indicated in bleeding piles, piles which contain a far greater 
quantity of blood than the size of the vein involved would warrant; 
also in piles which do not mature, but which, from partial absorption 
of their contents, remain as hard bluish lumps. 

Then, again, in erectile tumors which have now an increase and 
then a decrease of the amount of blood in them, Lycopodiu?n may be 
useful. 

Lycopodium must have some effect on the blood and on the nervous 
system because of its general use in typhoid states. It is not the 
remedy in the beginning of typhoid fever, but when the disease has 
gone on, despite your treatment, to a state which is very alarming. 
The patient becomes stupid, lies with dropped jaw, half open eyes, the 
conjunctivae being coated with a glazing of mucus and directed into 
vacancy. Passes urine involuntarily. Again, about the fourteenth day 



44 2 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

of the fully- developed fever, when the rash belonging to the disease 
does not appear and the patient sinks into an unconscious state, with 
muttering delirium, picking at the bed-clothes or grasping at flocks, 
distended abdomen, great rumbling of flatus, constipation, sudden 
jerking of the limbs here and there, breathing, snoring and rattling, 
pulse rapid, intermitting; involuntary urination or retention of urine; 
if the urine is passed in bed it leaves a reddish sandy deposit in the 
clothing. Here is a condition of non-reaction which must end fatally 
unless quickly remedied; Lycopodium often does it. 

These indications are very similar to those calling for Calcarea ostre- 
arum. Calcarea ostrearum has been found to be the remedy in thi s 
stage of typhoid fever when the rash does not appear. But Calcare a 
may have either constipation or diarrhoea. Lycopodium always 
requires constipation. Calcarea has more hallucinations. The patient 
sees visions when he closes his eyes; he cannot sleep; although he 
may be fully conscious, yet he is continually frightened by some 
imaginary object. In such cases Calcarea develops the rash and brings 
the patient out of this precarious state. 

In Hyoscyamus the urine leaves streaks of red sand on the sheet. 
The distinction between this remedy and Lycopodium in impending 
cerebral paralysis is chiefly one of degree — the Lycopodium being the. 
deeper acting of the two. Further it has this more pronounced after- 
noon aggravation and less nervous irritability, etc. 

In these typhoid conditions we have an indication for Lycopodium 
in the tongue. The tongue seems swollen and the patient cannot 
protrude it, or when the patient does put it out it rolls from side to 
side like a pendulum. Almost always, too, the tongue is dry and has 
blisters on it. These are symptoms enough to warrant you in the 
choice of Lycopodium. 

In scarlatina, Lycopodium is not indicated by its power to produce 
an eruption and fever similar to those of scarlatina ; it is called for, 
rather, in those cases which do not take a normal course, but which 
go on to a fatal issue by reason of the constitution. You are guided 
here by the typhoid symptoms just mentioned, and also by another 
symptom which anticipates these and leads you to Lycopodium long 
before such serious symptoms appear. I refer to the condition of the 
child after sleep. The child wakens cross and irritable, kicking the 
clothes off and striking every one about it, or it raises up terrified and 
clings to its mother as if for protection against some object of alarm. 



LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 443 

Although this symptom may seem insignificant, it is not so by any 
means. It is the beginning of mischief, and if not checked, stupor 
and impending cerebral paralysis will follow. Here it resembles Cu- 
prum, Belladonna, Stramonium and Zincum, all of which remedies have 
arousing from sleep as if frightened. The element of irritability and 
the absence of symptoms characteristic of the other drugs lead you 
to Lycopodium. 

Related remedies having more of the element of irritability are 
Chamomilla, Arsenicum, Kali carbonicum. 

Lycopodium is often needed when the child becomes suddenly obsti- 
nate; breathes rapidly in sleep; worries, cries; muscles become flabby; 
it is unable to walk any more. 

We may make another use of this symptom. Sometimes children 
have a disease called " gravel," in which lithic acid is passed in suffi- 
ciently large quantity in the urine as to cause pain on passing water. 
They awake from sleep screaming out with pain and kicking at all 
around them. Here Lycopodium is indicated by both the subjective 
and the objective symptoms; it is related to Sarsaparilla. Zingiber, Pul- 
satilla, Arnica, Prunus spinosa, etc., should be compared in ischuria. 

Often, too, when Lycopodium is indicated in scarlatina, you will find 
that one or the other parotid gland is inflamed and discharging puru- 
lent matter. 

Probably the very best remedy in the materia medica for parotitis 
accompanying scarlatina is Rhus tox. The next best is Calcarea ostre- 
arum, and next to that Lycopodium. Lachesis is only indicated when 
the swelling is purplish and the pus is not laudable but thin, excoriat- 
ing and ichorous. 

Lycopodium is often overlooked in diseases of the e3 T e, when, never- 
theless, it is here a very useful remedy, although indicated principally 
in cases that have become chronic. You may use it in granular lids, 
which are dry and smarting, in retinitis pigmentosa and even in cata- 
ract. It will also cure styes, especially occurring near the inner 
canthus. 

In diphtheria, Lycopodium is to be thought of when the diphtheritic 
deposit is most copious on the right side of the throat, with a tendency 
to spread toward the left. There is a constant desire to swallow, 
amounting almost to spasm of the throat, with violent stinging pains. 
The patient is worse from swallowing drinks, especially cold drinks. 
You often find the symptoms aggravated from four to eight p. m. 



444 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

The cervical glands are swollen. Generally, when Lycopodium is the 
remedy in either scarlatina or diphtheria, the nose is invaded by the 
disease. The patient cannot breathe through his nose. The tonsils 
are very much swollen, as is also the tongue, so that he is obliged to 
open the mouth and protrude the tongue in order to get breath. Some- 
times, after you have given Lachesis, the membrane goes to the right 
side. Then Lycopodium comes in as a substitute. 

Arum triphyllum and Nitric acid are very similar in diphtheria of the 
nose. Phytolacca, dark red throat, worse on the right side, but there is 
inability to swallow hot drinks. 

Next we come to the action of Lycopodium on the liver. Lycopodium 
acts very strongly on this organ, producing quite a number of symp- 
toms. First, beginning with the mouth, we find the tongue coated, 
sour or, exceptionally, putrid taste in the mouth on arising; violent 
hunger, almost amounting to canine hunger; yet a few mouthfuls of 
food seem to produce fulsomeness, as though the patient were " full 
up to the throat," quickly followed by hunger again; distress in the 
stomach immediately after eating, ?iot some little time after, like Nux 
vomica; cannot bear the pressure of the clothing about the waist, here 
being somewhat like Lachesis; but it is distinguished from Lachesis in 
that the latter has the sensitiveness all the time, but Lycopodium only 
after a meal. The region of the liver is very sensitive to touch. Some- 
times there is a feeling of tension there, and this feeling of tension is a 
subjective symptom which leads you to the choice of Lycopodium in 
chronic hepatitis when abscesses have formed. The diaphragm is 
very apt to be affected in this state. There is a feeling as though a 
cord were tied around the waist. There is marked collection of flatus. 
Possibly that is the reason why a small quantity of food fills the 
patient up. This flatulence tends upwards rather than downwards; 
rumbling of wind in the splenic flexure of the colon, with distention 
of that portion of the intestinal tract. There is great fermentation in 
the intestines, this being followed by discharge of flatus, and even by 
diarrhoea. The bowels are usually constipated, however, with in- 
effectual urging to stool. After stool there is a feeling as of a great 
quantity remaining unpassed. 

Now these symptoms, especially if associated with ascites, will lead 
you to the choice of Lycopodium in that disease known as cirrhosis of 
the liver. 

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LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 445 

analogues, one of which is Nux vo??iica. Nux may be distinguished 
from it by the following: Although Nux vomica has sour taste in the 
mouth, aggravation in the morning and fulness after eating, yet the im- 
mediate distress is more prominent under Lycopodium. In the accumula- 
tion of flatus, of the two remedies Nux has more pressure downwards, 
giving frequent urging to stool and pressure on the bladder. Both 
remedies have prominently constipation, with ineffectual urging to 
stool. The difference between the two remedies is this: Nux vomica 
has this ineffectual urging from its fitful action; under Lycopodium it 
arises from contraction o*f the sphincter ani. 

Sulphur is also similar in the accumulation of flatus and in the sour 
and bitter taste; but the characteristic place for the accumulation of 
flatus in Sulphur is in the sigmoid flexure, and is referred by the pa- 
tient to the left groin. 

Momordica balsamica is another remedy that has incarcerated flatus 
in the splenic flexure. Cepa has pain in the region probably due to 
the same cause. 

Raphauus is also to be thought of in cases with accumulation and 
retention of flatus. Dr. James B. Bell, of Mass., one of our most emi- 
nent surgeons, performed an operation on the abdomen. The patient 
was decidedly tympanitic, and yet he passed no flatus whatever, 
although the bowels moved. That s3^mptom is under Raphauus. Dr. 
Bell gave that remedy, and the patient recovered. 

Next we come to the dropsies curable by Lycopodium. We find the 
remedy indicated in dropsies, particularly in the lower half of the 
body. The upper part of the body is emaciated, the muscles of the 
arms and chest are shrunken, the abdomen is distended, and the legs 
swollen and covered with ulcers, from which serum continually oozes. 
Now, there are three remedies which may be given when ulcers form 
on the legs in dropsy. They are Rhus lox., Lycopodiuin and Arse?iic. 
The cause of the dropsy indicating Lycopodium is liver disease. It has 
also been used successfully for hydropericardium in heart disease after 
the failure of Arsenic. 

We next come to the catarrhs of Lycopodium. Lycopodium may be 
thought of in catarrh affecting the nasal mucous surface, particularly 
when the nose is "stuffed up" and the child cannot breathe. The 
child starts up from sleep rubbing its nose. 

Yeu may also think of it in bronchial catarrh, whether the larger or 
smaller tubes are involved, when there is accumulation of mucus, as 



446 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

indicated by rales, rattling breathing, cough and dyspnoea and waving 
of the alse nasi. 

It may also be given in hectic fever with suppuration of the lungs, 
particularly when the right lung is worse than the left. 

It is also useful in pneumonia when the hepatization is so extensive 
that the patient has great difficulty in breathing, and there is alternate 
contraction and dilatation of the alse nasi. It may also be employed 
in typhoid pneumonia, the symptoms agreeing, and also for the bad 
effects of maltreated pneumonia, particularly if suppuration of the 
lungs impends. 

I come now to the action of Lycopodium in the muscular and fibrous 
tissues. It weakens the muscles and so becomes of use in delicate 
persons whose muscles are poorly developed. The arms feel weak and 
heavy, but that this weakness is mainly functional is shown by the 
fact that the patient when he tries to use them, finds that he can work 
quite well with them. The limbs easily go to sleep, with numbness 
and formications. These sensations accompany rheumatism, neural- 
gia, etc. Lycopodium is found effective in chronic rheumatism and 
gout w T hen the pains are worse from damp weather and relieved by 
slow motion and warmth, and the characteristic gastric and urinary 
symptoms are present. The right side is principally the seat of 
trouble. 

In diseases of the kidneys we find Lycopodium indicated for a trou- 
ble to which I have already referred, the presence of lithic acid in the 
urine, and also in renal colic affecting the right side. 

There is one symptom for Lycopodium that I would yet like to add, 
a symptom not uncommon in typhoid fever, pneumonia, and scarla- 
tina, and that is coldness of one foot while the other is warm or even 
hot. This symptom may appear insignificant on paper, but I can 
assure you that it is of inestimable value in practice. 

Sulphur has coldness of one foot, but it is usually the left foot that 
is affected. 

Lycopodium is complementary to Lachesis. 



LECTURE XLIII. 

THE UMBELLIFERiE, THE BERBERIDACEiS AND 

SPIGELIA. 

The Umbeeeifer^e. 

The Umbelliferse are an order of plants which have a marked action 
on the nervous system, developing in some cases symptoms akin to 
hysteria. They also affect the glandular system, producing either en- 
gorgement or atrophy of glands. They all act on the mucous mem- 
branes, producing catarrh, and some of them act upon the skin, de- 
veloping pustular eruptions. The remedies obtained from this order 
are as follows: 

Conium maculatum, 
Cicuta virosa, 
CEnanthe crocata, 
Phellandrium aquaticum, 
Petroselinum, 
Asafoetida, 
Ammoniacum gummi. 

We will now proceed to consider the one first mentioned on this 
list. 

Conium Macueatum. 

Conium maculatum acts as a depressor of the cerebro-spinal system. 
It develops a paretic state which spreads from below upwards, the 
lower part of the body giving out before the upper. When the drug 
is taken in poisonous doses we find at first a difficulty in walking, as 
though the legs could not be moved. As the action of the poison in- 
creases, other and more vital organs are involved. The lungs are 
attacked; there is dyspnoea; the pulse is irregular, showing the fitful 
action of the heart muscle. Up to this time the mind is perfectly 
clear. Finally unconsciousness ensues, and the patient dies from pa- 
ralysis of respiration. 

We may utilize Conium in those exhausted states of the system re- 
sulting from old age. It may also be used after severe diseases, as 



44-8 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

diphtheria and typhoid fever, and for the sequelae of that vice of vices, 
masturbation. In the paralyses of Conium, sensation is but little in- 
volved. Its analogues here are Gelsemium and Cocculus, which pro- 
duce functional motor paralysis and are prominent remedies in post- 
diphtheritic paralysis. 

In the treatment of the effects of sexual excess, we find Conium of 
great utility by reason of its mental symptoms. It produces a perfect 
picture of hypochondriasis. The patient is melancholy, averse to 
society, yet fears to be alone. Conium may also be given when this 
mental condition arises from celibacy. 

Zinc oxide is here very similar to Conium. The latter is a depress- 
ing remedy, while the former is irritating as well as weakening. 

You may use Conium in vertigo, when it is the result of cerebral 
anaemia and when it is characterized by exacerbations on turning over 
in bed. It is often associated with a numb feeling in the brain, as if 
that organ were stupefied. 

Acting as Conium does upon the glandular system, we would ex- 
pect it to be a scrofulous remedy. It is indicated in scrofulous oph- 
thalmia; a characteristic symptom calling for it in this trouble being 
intense photophobia disproportionately severe to the degree of inflam- 
mation present. In addition to this there are ciliary neuralgia and 
prosopalgia, usually on one side, and worse from cold, under the in- 
fluence of which the cheek becomes of a dark red color and swells. 

Conium affects the wax in the ears, increasing it in quantity and 
making it a dark color, something like chewed-up paper. 

The proper treatment in these cases is to remove the accumulation 
of wax by careful syringing, and then give Conium to prevent its for- 
mation anew. 

Conium does not act very prominently on the chest. However, we 
find it useful in consumptives when they find it impossible to expec- 
torate the sputum; they must swallow it again. It is especially use- 
ful for tormenting night cough, from tickling as from a dry spot in 
the larynx, which is relieved as soon as the patient sits up in bed. 
There is scarcely any cough during the day. 

Conium weakens the heart, causing the pulse to be one moment full 
and regular and the next soft, weak, and irregular. This symptom is 
not an uncommon indication for Conium in aged people. 

The use of Conium in glandular diseases and in malignant forms of 
tumors comes from its power of producing enlargement of the glands, 






UMBEIvLIFER^. 449 

adenomata. The glands affected are of a stony hardness. These in- 
durations are quite common in the mammae, in the testicles, and in the 
uterus. Usually, there is little or no pain; although, sometimes, there 
may be darting pains. Conium is indicated in the beginning of scir- 
rhus. It is also indicated after contusions or bruises when induration 
is the result. 

There is an inflammation of Conium which closely simulates that of 
malignant disease. In the mouth it gives us a picture of noma; the 
tongue and mucous surfaces are swollen, with offensive discharge; the 
parts have an ashy, grayish hue, and may even be gangrenous. There 
is great difficulty in swallowing, with spasm of the throat. 

In cancer of the stomach, there is vomiting of blood, and of a gray- 
ish-black substance which is made up of decomposed blood and broken- 
down gangrenous tissue. 

Conium is complementary to Nux vomica in constipation, especially 
when there is faint feeling after stool. 

Ammoniacum Gum mi. 

Ammoniacum gummi is a gum obtained from a very large tree grow- 
ing in Arabia. It has gained quite a reputation as a cure for diseases 
of the eye. I have used it successfully in asthenopia, when the eyes 
smart and burn, especially if used at night by artificial light. The 
eyes become injected, and often throb, especially in the inner canthus 
of each eye. It thus stands between Belladonna, which is used for 
affections of the eyes from overwork when there is great congestion, 
and Ruta, which is indicated for irritability of every tissue of the eye 
from overwork or from using the eyes on fine work. 

Asafcetida. 

Asafostida is a gum having a decided alliaceous odor. It is espe- 
cially useful in two classes of disease: First, in nervous diseases de- 
veloping a perfect type of hysteria; it acts upon the muscular fibres, 
producing a reverse peristaltic action in the oesophagus and intestines. 
Thus, it causes a sensation as though a ball started in the stomach 
and rose into the throat; this being provoked by over-eating, by mo- 
tion, or by anything that can excite the nerves. It produces a burst- 
ing feeling, upwards, as though everything in the abdomen were com- 
ing out at the mouth. This is common in colic from hysteria, after 
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45° A CUNICAI, matkria medica. 

belching of wind of a strong rancid taste, and is associated with an 
empty gone feeling in the stomach at n a. m. like Sulphur. 

The second action of Asafoetida is upon the bones. It produces 
periosteal inflammations, resulting in ulcers, especially upon the shin 
bones. A characteristic of these ulcers is an intolerance of all dress- 
ings. The parts around are exceedingly sensitive to the application 
.of even charpie. 

We find Asafoetida curing hysteria arising from the sudden suppres- 
sion of discharges. 

Asafoetida produces inflammations of the eye. Thus it may be in- 
dicated in iritis after the abuse of mercury, especially when it is of 
syphilitic origin, with burning, throbbing pains, and soreness of the 
bones around the eyes. The nearest remedy here is Aurum, which 
has relief by warmth. Asafoetida has relief from pressure on the eye- 
ball itself, which Aurum has not. 

Phellandrium aquaticum we find to be indicated in headache which 
involves the nerves going to the eye. There is a crushing feeling on 
the top of the head, with burning of the eyes and lachrymation. 

Phellandrium also causes sharp pains in the course of the lactifer- 
ous tubes when the child nurses. 

Petroselinum comes into use in urethral disease, especially in gonor- 
rhoea, when the inflammation has travelled back, and the patient com- 
plains of pain at the root of the penis. There is a sudden irresistible 
desire to urinate, and itching deep in the perineum. 

Coniiun causes chronic cystitis, with intermittent urination. The 
urine flows and stops. That symptom of the drug I have utilized in 
the treatment of enlargement of the prostate in old people. 

iETHUSA CYNAPIUM. 

sEtkusa cynapium is a frightful poison, having narcotic properties 
as well as paralyzing effects. The principal use we make of the drug 
arises from its action on the stomach. It produces a deathly nausea 
and sickness, with vomiting. In the case of a child the vomit con- 
sists of curdled milk, which is often green. After vomiting, the child 
falls back exhausted and goes to sleep. It awakens hungry, eats and 
vomits again. The face is pale, and there are dark rings about the 
eyes. The analogue here is Antimonium crudum, which differs from 
sEthusa in having a white-coated tongue. Calcarea oslrearum or Cal- 
carea acetica, has vomiting of curdled milk, and the child is apt to have 
diarrhoea with sour-smelling stools. 



THE BERBERIDACE^E. 451 

Cicuta virosa, another member of the order, when taken in any 
quantity produces congestion at the base of the brain and in the me- 
dulla oblongata. At first, the patient is rigid, with fixed staring eyes, 
bluish face and frothing at the mouth and unconsciousness. Next, 
there passes a shock, or series of shocks, from the head through the 
body. The jaws are locked, the patient bites the tongue. These spas- 
modic symptoms are followed by profound exhaustion. These symp- 
toms indicate Cicuta in epilepsy, spasms from worms, and also in some 
forms of puerperal spasms. 

We notice, too, that Cicuta, in addition to these symptoms, develops 
phenomena which resemble the remote effects of concussion of the 
brain. The pupils are dilated; there are vertigo and headache, and 
sometimes epileptiform convulsions. 

Cicuta also attacks the skin, producing a pustular eruption, with 
yellowish honey-colored scabs, particularly about the mouth, and 
matting the whiskers. It has even cured two cases of epithelioma 
when the cancerous growth was covered by these honey-colored scabs. 

Next, we will study the 

BERBERIDACE^E. 

Of this order we have time to study but two drugs, namely, Berberis 
vulgaris and Podophyllum peltatum. 

Berberis Vulgaris. 

Berberis vulgaris belongs to this order along with Caulophyllum and 
Podophyllum. It contains an alkaloid called Berberina, which is also 
found in Hydrastis Ca?iadensis, Zanthorriza, Menispeimum Cana- 
dense, Coptis root, etc. Some chemists have even asserted that what is 
sold as Muriate of Hydrastine is not Hydrastine at all, but Muriate 
of Berber ine. This Berberiue, when given in large doses to animals, 
produces restlessness, convulsive trembling, thirst, diarrhoea and, 
finally, paralysis of the posterior extremities. Man is far less readily 
poisoned by it than are the lower animals. In the old school it is used 
as an antiperiodic and also as a bitter tonic. 

Berberis vulgaris acts more on the kidneys and bladder than on any 
other parts of the body; next to these the liver, and, lastly, the 
mucous membranes. It also affects the vital powers and damages nu- 
trition, as shown by the sunken face and excessive prostration. 

First of all we will consider the kidney symptoms as the most 



45 2 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

important. Just as I would recommend Digitalis for several diseases 
when the heart symptoms decide for it, so would I recommend Ber- 
beris in certain affections, as peritonitis, metritis, etc., when marked 
by the Berberis kidney symptoms. We find in the renal regions stick- 
ing, digging, tearing pains, worse from deep pressure, for they are 
evidently in the kidneys themselves. These tearing pains extend 
down the back and into the pelvis along the course of the ureters. 
There is a sort of tensive, pressive pain across the small of the back, 
which feels stiff and numb; pains of a sticking or tearing character 
radiate from the kidneys down into the small of the back. Another 
symptom which seems to be peculiar to Berberis is a bubbling feeling 
as if water were coming up through the skin. It is a peculiar symp- 
tom, and one that may point very strongly to Berberis as the remedy. 

doming next to the bladder, we find here very marked cutting 
which extends down the urethra, and burning pain even after urinat- 
ing. The urine itself presents marked characteristics. We find it 
yellow, turbid and flocculent. Sometimes there is whitish sediment, 
later becoming red and mealy. With these urinary symptoms are the 
tearing pains just mentioned. Now, whenever you have these renal 
and vesical symptoms, you must think of Berberis, whether the trouble 
be inflammation of the uterus, of the bowels, of the peritoneum, or of 
any other part of the body. The face is usually expressive of deep- 
seated disease, being sunken and worn looking. General prostration 
is great. 

Sometimes the same condition obtains in liver affections. You find 
very characteristically sticking pain under the border of the false ribs 
on the right side. These pains seem to shoot from the hepatic region 
down through the abdomen. These symptoms may well be indicative 
of gall stone colic. 

The stools of Berberis are accompanied by violent burning in the 
anus, as if the surrounding parts were sore; frequent or constant de- 
sire for stool. These symptoms have suggested the use of Berberis in 
fistula of the anus. 

In fistula compare Silica, Sulphur, Ignatia and Calcarea p/ws., the 
latter when lung symptoms are present as the result of an operation for 
removal. 

You may also use Berberis in complaints of females, when the leu- 
corrhcea or menstrual difficulty is associated with the peculiar urinary 
symptoms of the drug. 

Berberis is to be studied alongside of Pareira brava. The difference 



THE BERBERIDACE.E. 453 

between the two drugs is this: in the latter drug the pains go tearing 
down the thighs, while in the former they seldom go further than the 
hips, and the patient is unable to urinate unless he gets down on his 
hands and knees. Urine ammoniacal. 

We may also use Berberis in disease of the joints, when accompanied 
by the tearing and burning pains and the bubbling sensation just 
mentioned. It is also a very useful drug in rheumatism or gout, 
when characteristic urinary symptoms are present. This places it by 
the side of Lithium carb. , Benzoic acid, Calcarea ostrearum and Lycopo- 
dium. 

Benzoic acid is useful in gout and in rheumatism with urinary 
symptoms, when the urine smells strong, like that of the horse. 

Calcarea ostrearum has very offensive urine, with a white instead of 
a turbid deposit. 

Lycopodium is useful in rheumatism or gout when the urine contains 
a lithic acid deposit. 

Podophyllum Peltatum. 

Podophyllum peltatum is the mandrake or May-apple, a plant that 
grows to the height of some two or three feet, with leaves spread out 
like an open hand. It is found mostly on the borders of woods. The 
parts used in medicine are the roots and fruit of the plant. When 
applied externally, Podophyllum produces a rawness of the skin, re- 
sembling intertrigo. If the powdered plant gets into the eyes it pro- 
duces a severe inflammation and even a perforating ulcer of the cornea. 

The central point of attack of the drug, however, is in the abdomen. 
Shortly after it is taken there follow diarrhoea, colicky pains, the well- 
known morning stool pouring out like water from a hydrant, preceded 
by retching and vomiting and spasmodic contraction of the stomach, 
making the child scream out; a diarrhoea such as would make us 
think of Sulphur, Dioscorea, Bryonia, Natrum sulph., and a few other 
remedies. The stools are renewed immediately by eating, like Croton 
tig Hum, etc. 

In addition to its intestinal action we find it acting on the liver, and 
here is the main use that is made of the remedy. It is indicated in 
the torpid or chronically congested liver. The liver is swollen and 
sensitive, and friction over the right hypochondrium relieves this sen- 
sation. The face and sclerotica become tinged yellow. There is bad 
taste in the mouth, evidently arising from the degeneration of food in 
the intestinal tract. The tongue is coated yellow or white, and takes 



454 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

the imprint of the teeth. The bile may become inspissated in the gall 
bladder, forming gall-stone; thus we find Podophyllum indicated in 
that tormenting disease, bilious colic. The stools are of the nature 
already mentioned; or they are constipated and clay-colored, showing 
the absense of bile. These symptoms of Podophyllum much resemble 
those of Mercurius. They have won for the drug the name of vege- 
table mercury. It is much less injurious, however, than is Mercury. 

In constipation of bottle-fed babies Podophyllum will sometimes 
relieve. The stools are dry and crumbling. 

Of the remedies having the symptom, the tongue takes the imprint 
of the teeth, Mercurius stands at the head of the list. Next to that 
we have Podophyllum, and then Yucca jilamentosa, and, finally, Rhus, 
Stramonium and Arsenicum metallicum. 

Podophyllum also produces prolapsus recti with the diarrhoea. The 
rectum protrudes before stool (JVzcx vom. after), especially in the morn- 
ing. Podophyllum also seems to have the power of producing and cur- 
ing prolapsus of the uterus with attendant symptoms of bearing down 
in the hypogastric and sacral regions worse from motion, and neural- 
gia in the right ovary, extending down the anterior crural nerve, 
backache, retarded menses, thick transparent leucorrhcea and often 
coexisting with these, prolapsus recti. 

As concordant remedies to Podophyllum in this prolapsus we have 
Nux vomica and Sepia, the indications for which I have already given 
you in a former lecture. 

Very few would think of Podophyllum as a remedy for tonsillitis and 
yet it has some very clear cut indications in this affection. The trouble 
is apt to start in the right side and extend to the left, like Lycopodium. 
There is great dryness of the throat, aggravation from swallowing 
liquids and in the morning and pain going into the ear. 

Podophyllum is a valuable remedy during dentition. It does not 
seem to act on the brain, yet it causes reflex cerebral irritation, whether 
this be from the abdominal symptoms alone or from the teeth. The 
symptoms which indicate it in addition to those already given are 
moaning and whining during sleep, not crying out with a sharp, sudden 
noise, as under Belladonna, but a sick cry; the child grates its teeth; 
the head is thrown back and rolled from side to side. 

Next we find Podophyllum indicated in fevers, usually of a remittent 
type, particularly in bilious remittent fever. The drug does not pro- 
duce many characteristic symptoms during the chill, but during the 
fever the patient is sleepy and sometimes delirious. 



LECTURE XLIV. 

MINERAL KINGDOM. 

I propose now to begin the study of the drugs obtained from the 
mineral kingdom. I have placed on the board {see next page) for 
your study the elements, arranged in order according to some of their 
relations, just as we find them in chemistry. I wish to explain here 
the general idea of the relation of drugs, and especially of those be- 
longing to the mineral kingdom. If you consult chemistry you will 
find that the elements hold to each other an electrical relation. They 
hold to each other a relation of polarity as positive electric and neg- 
ative electric. Certain of these elements are emphatically negative, 
and others are just as positively positive. Some of the elements, as 
gold, silver, etc., hold a middle relation, being rather neutral. These 
I have placed at the neutral point of the magnet. The advantage of 
this method of study will be seen as we proceed. The negative elec- 
trics are known to be conductors of light, the positive conductors of 
heat. The extreme effects in this respect are noticed at either pole, 
diminishing as we approach the curve of the magnet. Another fact 
which is well worth knowing is this general statement: the electro- 
negatives act on the bowels in the morning, and the chest in the after- 
noon: that is, they act upward on the body during the day. Exactly 
the opposite holds true with the electro-positive. These act on the 
chest in the morning, and on the bowels in the latter part of the day. 
Most of you are acquainted with the morning diarrhoea of Sulphur, 
which hurries the patient out of bed. You know how the asthma of 
that remedy increases in the afternoon. Taking the remedies at the 
other extreme, we have the Kali salts as examples; you know that 
they have aggravation of their chest symptoms in the forenoon, and 
of their bowel symptoms in the afternoon. This is, of course, a very 
general statement, but it may be of great use to you in enabling you 
to differentiate between drugs. Let me illustrate. You have a case 
of scrofula and you are obliged to decide between Sulphur and some 
salt of lime. You will be astonished to see how similar are many of 
the symptoms of these two drugs. The very fact of the diarrhoea 



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A CIvINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 



Elect?'o- 



Electro+. 



Oxygen. 
Ozone. 
Nitric ac. 
Amyl nitr. 



Sulphur. 
Selenium. 
Sulph. ac. 
Carboneum sulph. 



Fluoric ac. 

Iodine. 

Spongia. 

Bromine. 

Chlorine. 

Muriatic ac. 

Cyanogen. 



Carbo veg. 

Carbo an. 

Graphites. 

Petroleum. 

Cosmoline. 

Silicea. 



Phosphorus. 
Phosphoric ac. 
Arsenicum alb. 
Arsenicum iod. 
Tellurium. 
Antimon. crud. 
Antimon. tart. 



Aurum. 
Argent urn. 
Mercury. 
Thallium. 
Cuprum. 



Antozone. 



Hydrogen. 



Ammonium. 
Kalium. 
Natrum. 
Lithium. 



Calcarea. 
Baryta carb. 
Strontia carb. 



Zincum. 

Magnesium. 

Cadmium. 

Alumina. 

Plumbum. 

Stannum. 



Ferrum. 
Manganum. 
Niccolum. 
Kobaltum. 



MINERAL KINGDOM. 457 

coming in the morning or afternoon, insignificant as it may appear 
under other circumstances, serves as a differentiation between these 
two drugs. Now in making this statement I do not mean that be- 
cause Sulphur produces a morning diarrhoea, that it must always be 
the remedy when that symptom is presented; but I do mean that when 
you are compelled to decide between two remedies having opposite 
directions in action, this relation becomes of great importance. As 
you approach the remedies or chemicals at the neutral point of the 
magnet, you find these effects less marked, until, finally, they are un- 
noticeable. 

There is another fact which we may learn from this arrangement of 
drugs. You notice that here we have oxygen and sulphur. They 
are chemical elements, which are placed near together in chemistry, 
and are similar not only as chemicals but also as medicines. Next on 
the list we have nitrogen, which is used in medicine in the form of 
Nitric acid. Below this we have a list of remedies which constitute a 
group in chemistry known as the halogens; they consist of Fluorine, 
Fluojic add, Iodine, Bromine, and Spongia. The latter drug is placed 
here not as a chemical substance, but as a drug which owes its medic- 
inal properties to the iodine and bromine which it contains. It is of 
practical value to remember these drugs in this connection, because 
they are not only chemically similar, but they are also similar as 
medicines. Moreover, this grouping of remedies enables you to keep 
in mind a group of remedies from which you may choose one to suit 
your case. I have introduced cyanogen here because it holds import- 
ant chemical and medicinal relations to the halogens. Below we have 
the carbon group, Carbo veg., Carbo animalis, Anthrakokali , the dia- 
mond, and Graphites. I have also placed in this group Petroleum and 
Cosmoline or petroleum jelly, two oily substances, rich in carbon, and 
having many resemblances to the pure carbons. 

In a future lecture I shall give you the characteristics which 
belong to all the carbons, so that you can say here is a patient who 
needs some preparation of carbon, which shall it be? This you de- 
termine in the same way as you selected one of the halogens. Next 
we have a group composed of Phosphorus and its acid and Arsenicum. 
Below, we have Tellurium, Antimonium crudum and Antimoniu7n 
tariaricum, which is similar enough to the sulphide to be placed along 
side of it. This group of drugs possesses many similarities. Phos- 
phorus and Arsenic are continually placed in contrast in the physician's 
mind, and it is often difficult for him to decide which he shall give. 



45§ A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

The Antimony preparations are similar in form and isomorphous 
with Sulphur and Selenium. There is another fact which we may 
borrow from chemistry, and that is that substances of similar crystal- 
line structure have similar medicinal effects. These substances often 
replace each other in chemistry. I give you these facts so that you 
may have a rational conception of drugs, not as mere individuals, but 
as consistent with nature and with themselves. Here below we have 
the noble metals, gold and silver. Then we may go up on this side 
tracing the drugs through the same relation we did on the other. 
Every one knows how closely related, chemically and medicinally, are 
Barium and Strontium. This relation is very much like that of simi- 
larity in origin. They are not apt to follow one another well. Here 
are Sulphur and Sulphiiric acid; suppose you are going to decide be- 
tween them and suppose it to be a perplexing case. You say ' ' I will 
give Sulphur, and if he is not better to-morrow I will give Sulphuric 
acid.''' That is bad practice. It would be much better to say that I 
will give Sulphur to-day and Calcarea to-morrow. Why ? They are 
similar drugs, but entirely foreign in their family relations and origin. 
Why do I dwell on these two relations ? Because I want you to dis- 
tinguish between that which is the same and that which is similar. 
Ignatia and Nux vomica are too much as though they were the same 
thing. Ignatia and Zinc are concordant remedies which are similar 
but which are not identical. You note that I have placed hydrogen 
above all the potash salts. You notice that here is placed antozone. 
Ozone is negative oxygen, and antozone is positive oxygen. Ozone 
exists in the sea-air and how many times do you send your patients to 
the sea-shore for relief. We may derive a hygienic fact from this 
statement; if I have a patient who is something of a Sulphur patient, 
I would think that sea-air would do him good because sea-air is rich in 
ozone, and ozone in a general way suits his condition. On the other 
hand, if he belongs more to the " salt" class of drugs I would not send 
him to the sea-shore. I would send him where antozone exists, as in 
fogs. We will now proceed to study the drugs derived from the min- 
eral kingdom. The remainder of the hour I will devote to the consid- 
eration of Selenium. To-morrow we will study the king of remedies, 
Sulphur. 



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Selenium. 



f Arum tri. < Cinch. 

Selenium. \ Caust., Carbo v., Phos., Spong. ^J^' 
! Sulphur. <F g * s 

Selenium is isomorphous with Sulphur and resembles it both chemi- 
cally and medicinally. We find it producing very little effect on the 
blood and lymphatic vessels, but it acts on the nervous system. We 
often find it the remedy in nervous diseases. It seems to produce a 
weakness or general debility involving all parts of the body. This 
debility is expressed by easy fatigue from any exertion or labor. If 
the patient sits up a little too late at night, or exerts his mind a little 
too much, he is exhausted the whole of the next day and is thereb}^ 
unfitted for either mental or physical work. Particularly is he weak- 
ened from hot weather. It is evident that the hot weather weakens 
him. This is further shown by the fact that he becomes stronger as the 
sun sinks and the temperature with it. He is sluggish on account of 
this debility. He wants to sleep from sheer exhaustion, and yet he is 
always worse after sleep. He cannot bear any nervous exhaustion, 
consequently he is made worse by seminal emissions, whether volun- 
tary or involuntary. As a result of the seminal loss, the next day he 
is irritable, suffers from mental confusion, headache, almost paralytic 
weakness of the spine, involuntary escape of prostatic fluid, dribbling 
of semen during sleep, and after stool and urination. Now you will 
notice at once the resemblance of the drug to Sulphur. Both have 
bad effects of mental exhaustion and loss of sleep, and both have in- 
voluntary emissions and prostatorrhoea. The distinction lies in the 
fact that Selenium has more of the relaxation. Here you find two 
substances suitable in similar conditions, and yet the shade of differ- 
ence is sufficient to enable you to know which one is the more useful 
for your case. Both have impotence. With Sulphur there is more 
coldness and shrivelling of the genital organs. With Selenium there 
is more of this total giving up or relaxation, so that semen dribbles 
away involuntarily. 

We may be called upon to use Selenium for the sequelae of typhoid 
fever. When the patient begins to walk about, there is such great 
debility of the spine that he fears that he will be paralyzed. Again, 



460 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

you see the great similarity between Sulphur and Selenium. Sulphur 
is invaluable in the exhaustion consequent upon protracted diseases. 
This again we have in Selenium. In Selenium, such characteristic 
Sulphur symptoms as flushes of heat on the least motion are lacking. 
Sulphur has more of that gone weak feeling in the forenoon, which is 
not marked under Selenium. 

We find Selenium also indicated in headache of nervous origin. 
The pain is of a stinging character, and is usually situated over the 
left eye, and it is worse from the heat of the sun. Notice again how 
hot weather influences the Selenium patient. The headaches return 
quite periodically every afternoon, and are increased by any strong 
odor, as the odor of tube-roses, musk, etc. This headache is evidently 
nervous because it is associated with profound melancholy and profuse 
flow of clear limpid urine. You often find this last symptom in hys- 
terical patients. Other remedies, however, have it in more marked 
degree, as, for instance, Gelsemium, Ignatia, Lac defloratum, Moschus, 
etc. 

Again, another indication of the nervous origin of this headache is 
seen in the fact that the patient is worse from drinking tea and from 
certain acids, notably lemonade. Even tamarind-water aggravates. 
Here again we have resemblances to the Sulphur, in the periodical re- 
turn of the headache. With Sulphur, however, it does not return 
every afternoon, but every week; nor has this remedy the aggrava- 
tion from tea, although it has from coffee. 

You will find both remedies indicated in the headache of drunkards 
and of those who have been guilty of debauchery. The Sulphur head- 
ache is worse from all forms of alcoholic drinks. The Sele?iium head- 
ache is sometimes improved by brandy, as are also the gastric symp- 
toms. You will find that the patient has a longing for brandy. Now 
this is not the drunkard's craving. It is the result of a peculiar weak- 
ness in the stomach, a feeling as if the patient wanted something to 
stimulate him, and brandy is desired, as it has a temporary palliating 
effect. The same symptom you find under Staphisagria and Hepar 
sulphur, both of which have that great relaxation and dragging or 
want of tone in the walls of the stomach and consequent insufficiency 
in the secretion of gastric juice. 

Seleniwn comes to us well-recommended, in a peculiar form of con- 
stipation, though it failed me in the one case in which I used it. The 
constipation for which it is indicated is one purely due to atony of the 



MINERAL KINGDOM. 46 1 

intestinal tract. Peristaltic action is almost nil, so that faeces become 
impacted. The faeces are hard and dry from absorption of their mois- 
ture, and require removal by artificial means, yet Selenium is said to 
tone up the rectum and prevent the recurrence of this symptom. The 
same symptom is found under Alumina, Opium, Plumbum and Bryonia, 
but these are probably not indicated so often during convalescence. 

Another peculiarity of Selenium which qualifies its symptoms is the 
character of the sleep. The patient sleeps in cat-naps. He awakens 
often in the night, or is easily aroused by any slight disturbance. He 
awakens at precisely the same hour every morning before his usual 
rising time, when all his prevailing complaints are worse. Here again 
it resembles Sulphur. These "cat-naps" are characteristic of Sul- 
phur. The true Sulphur sleeplessness is this : The patient is aroused 
from sleep and is then wide awake. He has not this periodical hour of 
awakening each morning, which calls for Sele?iium. 

Another resemblance between the two drugs you will find in affec- 
tions of the skin. Selenium is useful in skin diseases, particularly 
when there is itching in the folds of the skin as between the fingers, 
and about the joints, particularly the ankle joint. The itching may 
also occur in small spots and is associated with tingling, here again 
showing involvement of the nervous system. The hair falls off, not 
that of the head, the eyebrows and whiskers, but of other parts of the 
body. You will find on the scalp an eczematous eruption which oozes 
a serous fluid after scratching. Here, again, it bears a striking re- 
semblance to Sulphur, but is distinguished from that remedy if the 
patient is old enough to describe his case, by this tingling in spots. 

We sometimes find, although not often, that Sele?iiu?n, like Sulphur, 
is indicated in chronic affections of the liver. Especially is it called 
for in enlargement of the liver with loss of appetite, particularly in 
the morning; there is white coating on the tongue, thus separating it 
at once from Sulphur. Then, too, with loss of appetite, Sulphur has 
increase of thirst, which is lacking in Selenium. There are sharp 
stitching pains in the hepatic region, worse on any motion and worse 
on pressure and sensitiveness of the liver. Now if there is a peculiar 
fine rash over the hepatic region, Selenium is the only remedy you 
can think of to suit your case. 

Selenium has a very marked action on the larynx and lungs. Sev- 
eral animals were poisoned with Selenium. It produced inflammation 
of the lining membrane of the larynx and congestion of the lungs with 



462 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

exudation into the pulmonary substance. Post-mortem examination 
showed the mucous membrane to be congested, with dark purplish 
spots here and there through it. Oozing of blood and frothy serum 
followed the incision of the knife. I have used Selenium successfully 
in the hoarseness of singers, particularly when the hoarseness appears 
as soon as they begin to sing. It may also be used when hoarseness 
appears after long use of the voice. There is frequent necessity to 
clear the throat by reason of the accumulation of clear starchy mucus. 
These symptoms point suspiciously towards incipient tubercular laryn- 
gitis. Here Selenium is grouped with Arum triphyllum, Spongia, 
Causticum, Carbo veg. and Phosphorus. 

Arum triphyllum has entirely different effects, but it bears a strong 
symptomatic resemblance to the throat symptoms of Sele?iium. It is 
also useful for the hoarseness of singers and orators, but especially in- 
dicated when the voice suddenly gives out during use. For example, 
the patient is talking in a sort of monotone when the voice suddenly 
breaks and goes up to a higher key. 

The antidotes to Selenium are Pulsatilla and Ignatia. China and 
wine are inimical to it. The debility caused by Selenium, so says 
Hahnemann, is very much increased by the use of Cinchona. Now the 
emaciation caused by Selenium is very similar to that of Cinchona. We 
have debility and emaciation from loss of animal fluids, a condition 
also found under Cinchona; yet the two drugs are inimical. 



LECTURE XLV. 



SULPHUR. 



Sulphur. 



V 

Calc. ostr. 



V 

Aeon. 



V 

Aloes. 



Psorinum. 

Merc, Nitric ac, Lach. 
Nux, Puis., Bry. 
Bapt., Arsenicum. 
Calc. ostr., Lye, Silic, 
Aconite, Bell., Bry. 
Phos., Ant. t. ; Ars. 

Merc. 



Sepia. 



> Nux, Puis. 

Sulphur is an element with which you are all familiar. You must 
be careful, if }^ou prepare the medicine yourself, that you obtain it 
perfectly pure. The sublimed Sulphur that you buy in the shops is 
very impure. It contains some of the ox} T gen acids of Sulphur, some 
Selenium, and often, too, Arsenic. When chemical substances are 
associated in this way in nature, it is a fact that they must be related 
medicinally. There is also a relation between the plant and the soil 
in which it grows. Thus, Belladonna, which grows in lime earths, is 
related medicinally to Calcarea. The Agaricus will never grow where 
there is coal. You will find no relation between Agaricus and the 
carbons. Cistus Canadensis grows where there is mica, consequently 
you may expect some relation between that drug and Magnesium. 

Sulphur may be said to be the central remedy of our materia medica. 
It has well-defined relations with nearly every drug we use. The great 
utility of Sulphur arises from this peculiarity, it is our mainstay in 
defective reaction. When the system refuses to respond to the well 
selected remedy, it matters not what the disease may be, whether it is 
a disease which corresponds characteristically with the symptomato- 
logy of Sulphur or not, it will often be the remedy to clear up the case 
and bring about reaction, and either itself cure the case or pave the 
way for another drug which will cure. This qualit} T of Sulphur arises 
from its relation to what Hahnemann called psora. Hahnemann 
taught what is practically true, that when a disease is suppressed (and 



464 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDIC A. 

a disease is suppressed when it is driven from the surface to the in- 
terior of the body), there is formed a constitution or dyscrasia which 
will afterwards modify every abnormality from which the patient may 
suffer. For instance, an eruption on the skin is dried up or is driven 
in by some external application. Afterwards (it may be some time), 
another disease appears, not necessarily as a skin affection, however. 
Pathologically, it may be entirely different from it. For instance, as 
the result of exposure to cold, the patient contracts pneumonia. This 
condition due to the suppression of the eruption so modifies the disease 
that it is not curable until that same eruption is reestablished on the 
skin. Then you will be amazed to see how promptly the remedy that 
before refused to act now cures the case. Many times has Sulphur 
restored such suppressed diseases, and in this fact lies its wide applica- 
tion in practice. Particularly is it applicable after the suppression of 
itch. 

Sulphur is especially adapted to persons of rather light complexion 
who are easily angered, although dark-complexioned persons may also 
yield to its influence if they exhibit Sulphur symptoms. It is one of 
our mainstays in the treatment of the negro. Whether this is owing 
to the rapid growth of scrofula in that race or not, I caraiot say. It 
is also suited to persons who are subject to skin affections, particularly 
to those who have harsh, rough skin, which very readily breaks out 
with eruptions of various descriptions, varying from a simple erythema 
to a positive eczema. There is apt to be also an offensive odor from 
the body. This odor may arise partly from uncleanness, for the typi- 
cal Sulphur patient is not very fond of water. Bathing aggravates his 
complaints. There is, moreover, a positive distaste or dislike for 
water. This peculiar disagreeable odor or exhalation from the skin is 
not removed by washing; hence, you must consider it to be for the 
most part an abnormality arising from impure excretions from the 
skin. The patient is rather of coarse fibre. His hair is harsh and 
coarse. There is craving for alcoholic drinks, especially those of the 
coarser type, as beer, ale, whiskey, etc. 

The patient walks rather stooped from weakness of the spine. 
Then, too, as I have already said, he fails to react to the apparently 
indicated remedy. 

In defective reaction, Sulphur does not stand alone. I have already 
spoken of the value of Psorimim in this connection. Cuprum should 
also be thought of. We also have Laurocerasus in chest affections, 



SULPHUR. 465 

particularly in diseases of the lungs which do not respond to treat- 
ment; Valerian and Anibra grisea in nervous diseases; and Carboveg., 
particularly in abdominal affections and in the collapse which is 
marked by cold breath, cold knees, etc. 

Now, let me speak of the action of Sulphur on the circulation. In 
almost every instance in which it is the remedy you will find deranged 
circulation. It seems to act more prominently on the venous circula- 
tion, producing a sort of plethora. But this is not a true plethora. 
It is the result of irregularities in the distribution of the blood, by 
which certain parts of the body become congested. These conges- 
tions, generally speaking, are such as occur particularly from abdom- 
inal troubles, especially fulness of the portal system, a very common 
trouble nowadays. Especially is Sulphur indicated in plethora that 
has arisen from sudden cessation of an accustomed discharge, particu- 
larly a hemorrhoidal flow. For example, piles have suddenly stopped 
bleeding, and fulness of the head, with distended blood-vessels, fulness 
of the liver, etc., show that congestion of these parts has resulted. 
Sulphur will, in these instances, ease the congestion and restore the 
accustomed discharge. Then you may proceed with Sulphur or with 
some other remedy, according to the indications of the case, to cure 
this abnormal discharge in the proper way. 

The congestion of the head, for which Sulphur is indicated, is ac- 
companied by roaring in the ears indicating that there is congestion 
about the auditory nerves — redness of the face, worse in the open air 
and better in the warm room, and heaviness and fullness almost to 
bursting. The patient feels worse when he stoops. 

Sulphur is frequently indicated in congestion of the chest with or 
without haemoptysis. There is great difficulty in breathing. The pa- 
tient feels oppressed and wants all the doors and windows opened. 
These symptoms are accompanied with violent palpitation of the heart, 
resulting from the endeavor of that organ to compensate for the in- 
creased supply of blood to the thoracic cavity. 

If I may be allowed to use the expression, there is too much blood in 
the heart. The blood rushes into that organ and is not removed by 
its contraction rapidly enough. This is a very common symptom in- 
dicating Sulphur, and especially calls for it when the patient is dis- 
turbed at night with sudden rush of blood to the heart, with violent 
palpitation, gasping for breath, feeling as if the patient would suffocate 
if fresh air is not obtained. These symptoms may also be experienced 
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466 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

during the day from ascending a height or from exercise where the 
heart is called upon to do extra work. Often the patient feels as if 
the heart were too large for the thoracic cavity, a symptom also belong- 
ing to Glonoin, Eupatorium perfoliatum and Grindelia ivbusta. 

As further evidence of the irregular distribution of the blood in Sul- 
phur, we have redness of the various orifices of the body, a very strong 
characteristic of the remedy. The lips are of a rich red color. This 
symptom often indicates Sulphur in pneumonia, scarlatina, dysentery 
and anaemia. Redness of the ears may be noticed even when the rest 
-of the body is not abnormal in color. With this last indication, Sul- 
phur has often prevented earache in children. With this indication it 
lias often prevented erysipelas. We also find this redness along the 
borders of the eyelids, giving them an appearance as if they had been 
painted. We find redness at the anus, with soreness of the part, a 
symptom which is particularly useful in the diarrhoea of children. 
The child screams with pain when the bowels are moved. That symp- 
tom alone may frequently lead you to decide that Sulphur is the rem- 
edy. The same is also true of the vulva, which is found to be red. 

Another and very common expression of the irregularity in the cir- 
culation is flushes of heat, not only the flushes of heat that occur at 
the climacteric for which Sulphur is so frequently indicated, but the. 
flushes of heat which may occur in any disease and do occur during 
convalescence. The "flush" is followed by more or less moisture, 
which gives relief. To be purely characteristic of Sulphur, this must 
be associated with other symptoms, such, for instance, as sensation of 
heat on the top of the head. The feet, in such cases, are apt to be 
cold and the patient complains of weak feeling in the epigastrium, 
especially in the forenoon from ten to twelve. While you often cure 
flushes of heat with Sulphur when this symptom is absent, you never 
fail if you have the heat on the top of the head, cold feet and sinking 
feeling in the epigastrium. In the flushes of heat at climaxis you may 
also think of Lachesis, Sulphuric acid, Nitrite of Amyl and Kali bichro- 
micum ; in the weak faint feeling at n A. m., Phosphorus, Hydrastis, 
Asafoetida, and Zinc. 

Another illustration of the action of Sulphur on the circulation is 
shown in the fever of the remedy. Sulphur is not particularly indi- 
cated in typhoid or septic conditions. There is no indication that Sul- 
phur makes changes in the structure of the blood such as belong to 
scarlatina, typhoid fevers and the septic conditions generally, so that 



SULPHUR. 467 

from this fact we could not give Sulphur. There are other reasons 
than the septic changes that enable us to prescribe Sulphur with suc- 
cess. It is indicated when the fever is of a remittent or continued 
type. It may be used after Aconite for the pure synochal fever when, 
despite the use of that remedy, the dry, hot skin remains and there is 
no reaction or no critical sweat, which will give the necessary relief. 
Hour after hour, day after day, this fever continues ; hence its name, 
continuous. Or it may be what has been termed a ' ' continuous remit- 
tent ; " that is, there is an exacerbation each evening and a slight fall 
towards morning, the fever never going away entirely. You may give 
Sulphur when this fever approaches the typhoid condition, led by these 
indications : the patient begins to be drowsy with his fever. His 
tongue is dry and red at the edges and tip, and he responds to your 
questions very sluggishly and slowly. He is literally burning up with 
fever. The consumption of oxygen of the system is producing these 
symptoms. Sulphur acts marvellously in these cases. 

Sulphur may also be indicated in intermittent types of fever. It is 
not a specific for intermittent or malarial fever, and yet it has periodi- 
city in its symptoms. Here you must select it from the well-known 
symptoms, torpor with slowness in answering questions, chills that 
will not stop despite your well-selected remedy, particularly if the in- 
termittent assumes the remittent type, or, more frequently, if the re- 
mittent type commences and runs into the intermittent. It may also 
be called for in malarial neuralgia occurring mostly in the face and re- 
curring quite periodically and resisting other remedies. Here, too, you 
must remember Cinchona, Arsenicum and Chininum sulph. 

In these fevers I would have you place Sulphur alongside of two 
other remedies, which usually follow that remedy because in their 
symptomatology they suit a more advanced case. These two remedies 
are Baptisia and Arsenicum. Baptisia typifies a fever which is de- 
cidedly typhoid in its tendency. The torpor does not stop with this 
sluggishness in responding to questions, but it goes on to stupor, so 
that the patient even falls asleep while answering you. The tongue 
becomes of a brown or blackish hue down its centre and sordes form 
on the teeth. The discharges from the mouth and from the bowels 
have an offensive odor; the face has a besotted look; the blood is 
actually decomposed from septic poisoning or from the prolonged 
high temperature. 

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468 A CIvINICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

calling for either Sulphur or Aconite. It has some symptoms which 
remind you of the latter remedy, notably, restlessness; full, bounding 
pulse; hot, dry skin; anxiety and fear of death; yet beneath all these 
symptoms, there is evidence of prolonged tissue-changes. The inflam- 
mation is going on to destruction of the parts involved, whether the 
disease be typhoid fever or a simple inflammatory affection from cold 
as in gastric catarrh. The symptoms are aggravated after midnight; 
there is burning thirst with tendency to drink little and often, or burn- 
ing thirst with refusal to drink water because it aggravates these 
symptoms, especially the burning like coals of fire in the part affected. 
With all these symptoms the brain may remain perfectly clear. 

Next, we come to the consideration of the action of Sulphur on the 
lymphatic system, including under this head the glands and the ves- 
sels themselves. Sulphur is our mainstay in scrofula, which is, as you 
know, an affection involving this lymphatic system. It is the prince 
of remedies here. It is especially useful in the very commencement 
of the disease, when its first evidences are presented, particularly in 
patients having the temperament which I have already described to you 
as characteristic of the Sulphur patient. The patient sweats about 
the head, particularly during sleep. There is a marked tendency to 
eruptions such as crusta-lactea, boils, and, in older children, acne. In 
the case of children, the head is large in comparison with the rest of 
the body. The fontanelles, particularly the anterior, remain open too 
long from defective osseous growth. There is tendency to bone affec- 
tions, to caries, and, particularly in early childhood, to rickets and to 
curvatures of the spine. The child has a voracious appetite. This it 
expresses by greedily clutching at all that is offered it, whether edible 
or not, as if it were starved to death. There is defective assimilation. 
Glands are so diseased that, while sufficient food is taken into the sys- 
tem, it is not appropriated to the nourishment of the body, so that the 
child is always hungry and yet emaciated. The child looks shrivelled 
and dried up, like a little old man; the skin hangs in folds and is 
rather yellowish, wrinkled and flabby. All these are precious symp- 
toms for the exhibition of Sulphur. You may occasionally have to 
use Sulphur in the beginning in a sort of negative condition. You 
are certain from a majority of symptoms that you have a case of scrof- 
ula, and yet no particular remedy appears to be indicated. Then 
you should give Stdphur, which develops the symptoms and shows 
you what you have to contend with. 



SULPHUR. 469 

In marasmus of children you may give Sulphur when many of the 
symptoms already mentioned are present. The child is ravenously 
hungry, especially at 11 A. m. Now, in regard to this eleven-o'clock 
hunger, I would say that if you want to use Sulphur successfully in 
these cases, you must also have these symptoms present: hunger at 11 
A. m., heat on top of the head and cold feet. If you have these three 
symptoms present, Sulphur never fails you. If there is heat on the 
top of the head alone, you must think of Calcarea or Phosphorus. 

Another affection of which I wish to speak under the head of the 
lymphatic system is tuberculosis, not that I wish to say that scrofula 
and tuberculosis are identical, but that the lymphatic vessels have con- 
siderable to do with the spread of tubercle. Sulphur is a valuable drug 
in tuberculosis, no matter what part of the body it may invade. It is 
especially useful in tubercular hydrocephalus. Here it has done good 
work, not in the third stage, when the case is nearly hopeless, but in 
the commencement of the pathological process, when there are violent 
convulsions, sudden flushing of the face; the child cannot hold its head 
up from weakness of the cervical muscles. The child wants to lie with 
its head low. That symptom expresses a great deal, because, when 
the head is low, there is less effort of the neck required to hold the 
head up. The child cries out in its sleep. Often, on falling off to 
sleep, there is sudden jerking of one or both legs. It cries out in sleep 
as if frightened. The face is red and the pupils are dilated. This is 
not a case of Bellado?ina. Belladonna ca?i?iot, never did, and never will 
cure tubercular meningitis. The symptoms tend to appear more or less 
periodically. Associated with these few cerebral symptoms you will 
have very many general symptoms, some of which I have already men- 
tioned, and some of which will be spoken of before the end of the lec- 
ture. When I give you these symptoms in different groups, I do not 
wish to convey the idea that these symptoms indicate the drug only 
when they occur in their respective groups. 

In tuberculosis affecting the lungs, Sulphiir is indicated only in the 
beginning. I would here caution you as to how you use the drug. If 
carelessly or wrongly given, it may precipitate the disease which it was 
your desire to cure. You must not repeat your doses too frequently, 
and you must never give it unless you are certain that it is the remedy, 
for the tendency of Sulphur is to arouse whatever lies dormant in the 
system. The particular indications for Sulphura.ro. these: the body 
feels too hot. The patient wants the windows open, no matter how 



470 A CUNICAIv MATERIA MEDICA. 

cold the weather may be. There are frequent flushes of heat, empty 
feeling in the stomach, heat on top of head, cold feet, etc., palpita- 
tion of the heart on ascending, pain through the left chest from the 
nipple to the back. Now you may, in this condition, give Sulphur as 
high as you choose, one, two, or three doses and await results. Watch 
your patient carefully, and in many instances a cure will result, but 
not in all. 

In tuberculosis affecting the mesenteric glands Sulphur is indicated 
by the symptoms that I have already mentioned under emaciation and 
scrofula. 

You may also find Sulphur indicated in hip-joint disease, and in 
white swelling, both of which are probably of tubercular origin. You 
will be aided in your selection of the drug by the general symptoms. 

In these tubercular troubles you may compare with Sulphur, Calcarea 
ostrearum and Phosphorus. Both of these remedies are suited to scrofu- 
lous children, generally after Sulphur. They are indicated more by 
the general character of the patient than by the brain symptoms alone. 
All three remedies, as you know, have the same imperfect growth of 
tissue. The Sulphur patient is apt to be thinner than the one of Cal- 
carea ostrearum, but Calcarea especially suits a fat, flabby, apparently 
well-nourished child ; the paleness and the softness of flesh show you^ 
that the growth of fat has been obtained at the expense of other tissues. 
The sweat of the Sulphur patient has an offensive odor ; with Calcarea 
the sweat is on the scalp, and is cool. 

Calcarea phosphorica gives you these symptoms : There is a tendency 
to emaciation rather than obesity ; the abdomen may be large, but is 
more apt to be flabby ; the fontanelles, especially the posterior, remain 
open too long. 

Still another remedy is Apis. You know that Apis is one of the 
best remedies in tubercular meningitis. It is very similar to Sulphur. 
Both remedies are indicated in cerebral symptoms arising from the 
repercussion of some eruption — Sulphur, if it is a chronic eruption, 
and Apis, if it is an acute one. Even here they collide. The best 
distinction to make is this : Apis is indicated when there is well-marked 
effusion on the brain ; the patient cries with a piercing shriek. Then, 
again, the restlessness of the two remedies ought to be compared. 
With Sulphur, the patient does not sleep at all, or starts up from 
sleep suddenly, or sleeps in cat-naps. In Apis, we have this picture : 
the child is sleepy ; it suddenly awakes from sleep with a shrill cry ; 
it may be wholly or partly conscious ; it is sleepy, but cannot sleep. 



SULPHUR. 471 

Sulphur acts as powerfully on the nervous system as it does on the 
circulation. It affects the brain, producing first some alterations in 
the functions of that organ. For instance, it may be useful in hys- 
terical states, when the general symptoms of Sulphur are present ; when 
the patient has the insane idea that she is very wealthy ; she tears up 
her clothes regardless of the consequences ; she plays with and examines 
old soiled rags with pleasure, evidently regarding them as objects of 
beauty. At other times there is profound melancholy, with disposition 
to do nothing at all ; she is perfectly listless. This is not the indiffer- 
ence of Phosphoric acid, but listlessness or torpidity that is ver}^ com- 
mon in hypochondriasis. At other times the patient is affected with a 
religious mania ; even this mania is remarkably egotistic, the patient 
fears that she will not be saved ; she is anxious about her own soul, 
but perfectly indifferent concerning the salvation of others. At other 
times the patient is intolerably irritable and peevish ; this is particu- 
larly true with children. 

• Again, Sulphur may be indicated in hydrocephaloid. I have tested 
it fully in this condition, and know it to be invaluable. For instance, 
hydrocephaloid comes on during the course of cholera infantum. The 
little patient lies almost in a stupor. The face is pale, and bathed in 
a cold sweat, particularly the forehead. Do not mix the case up with 
Veratrum ; that drug is not indicated. The eyes are half open, and 
you find the pupil reacting very sluggishly to light, the urine is sup- 
pressed (a very alarming symptom); the child occasional^ twitches or 
jerks one or the other limb, and may now and then start up from sleep 
with a cry. This is a condition in which you will find Sulphur to act 
like a charm, and that, whether the diarrhoea continues or not. There 
is no remedy which can take its place. The violent rolling of the 
head, the suffused face, or the crying out of Belladonna are not present, 
nor is there the cri encephalique belonging to Apis, but there is a group 
of symptoms peculiar to Sulphur. 

Sulphur acts on the spine, producing several conditions there ; first 
of all, it is useful in spinal irritation. On pressing between the ver- 
tebrae you notice that the patient winces. Sulphur may also be used 
in spinal congestion, when the trouble results from suppression of the 
menses, or, still more characteristically, from the suppression of a 
hemorrhoidal flow. The back is so sensitive that any sudden jarring 
of the body causes sharp pains along the spine ; there is dry heat, par- 
ticularly in the small of the back, and this is often associated with cold 
feet. 



472 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

We also find it indicated in paraplegia, or paralysis of both legs. 
Sulphur has produced this, and it can cure it. I do not think that 
Sulphur is well indicated in far advanced cases resulting from either 
sclerosis or softening of the cord, or from chronic inflammation of its 
meninges ; but it has done good work in paralysis of both legs, with 
total retention of urine, and numbness extending up to the umbilicus. 
When the urine is drawn by the catheter it is found to be turbid and 
highly offensive. Now Sulphur must be given persistently in these 
cases. I must say that it will not always cure, for many cases are in- 
curable, but it will cure some cases in which the central cause of the 
trouble is not so chronic, and in which the alterations in the structure 
of the cord are not so profound but that they can be removed. 

General weakness of the spine, not classed under any particular 
name, has been sometimes cured by Sulphur. The patient has the 
characteristic stoop-shouldered appearance. The chest feels empty 
and weak; it tires him to talk; there is weakness in the epigastrium 
during the forenoon. We may also use Sulphur when these symptom's 
occur during convalescence from various acute diseases. 

We next have to speak of the action of Sulphur on the muscles, 
ligaments, tendons and joints. Sulphur is indicated in acute and 
chronic rheumatism, particularly the latter, when the inflammatory 
swellings seem to ascend; that is, they begin in the feet and extend 
up the body. The pains are worse in bed, and at night. The patient 
uncovers on account of burning heat of the feet. Especially do we 
find Sulphur useful during the course of acute inflammatory rheuma- 
tism for that annoying symptom, jerking of the limbs on falling asleep, 

We may also use it in synovitis, particularly after exudation has 
taken place. Sulphur here produces absorption, and very rapidly, too, 
particularly in the knee. 

We come next to study the action of Sulphur on the serous mem- 
branes. I have already spoken of its use in tubercular meningitis, so I 
now speak of its action on the pleura. We find Sulphur indicated in 
pleurisy, particularly when you have that sharp stitching pain through 
the left lung to the back, worse lying on the back, and worse from the 
least motion. It is also useful in cases that refuse to respond to the 
well-chosen remedy, particularly when there is well-marked pleuritic 
effusion. Apis is also to be thought of in this condition. 

In peritonitis Sulphur is indicated more by the general symptoms 
than by those directly referable to the affected part itself. 



sulphur. 473 

We next come to the action of Sulphur on the mucous membranes. 
Here we will consider its use in catarrhs and pneumonia. We find 
Sulphur indicated first of all in conjunctivitis. It is especially useful 
when the trouble has resulted from a foreign body in the eye, particu- 
larly after Aconite fails. It is also useful in scrofulous inflammations 
of the eye, especially with the characteristic tendency of this remedy to 
congestion. The eyes are red and injected, and there is a feeling as of 
a splinter of glass in the eye. The inflammation is worse in hot 
weather. During the winter the child is comparatively free from 
trouble. This symptom then is due to the relaxing influence of heat. 
The child is worse when near a hot stove. With the above symptoms 
to guide us, we may also use Sulphur in keratitis. Also when the 
condition results from the injury or irritation of some foreign body as 
a grain of sand or a cinder, and Aconite has failed to cure. 

In nasal catarrh or coryza we find Sulphur indicated in those who are 
subject to catarrhs, especially chronic catarrh, when scabs form in the 
nasal cavity, the nose bleeds readily, and is swollen, the alse especially 
are red and scabby, this redness at the outlet of the nose being quite 
consistent with the Sulphur condition. The nose is "stuffed up" 
while in doors, but when the patient is out in the open air, breathing 
is unobstructed. 

Coming next to the throat and lungs, we find Sulphur indicated in 
laryngitis and also in bronchial catarrh. Hoarseness is present, and 
this makes the voice very deep, a sort of basso profundo. In other 
cases there is aphonia, which is worse in the morning. The more 
chronic the case is the more is Sulphur indicated. 

In bronchitis, especially chronic bronchitis, Sulphur is indicated 
when there seems to be an enormous and persistent accumulation of 
thick muco-pus. The patient suffers from spells of suffocation, with 
palpitation of the heart. He must have the windows open. The 
cough is worse when he is lying in a horizontal position, and may then 
be so violent as to cause nausea and vomiting. Sulphur may some- 
times prevent pneumonia by relieving the lungs of that hyperemia 
which necessarily precedes the deposit of plastic matter. If in the 
very beginning you give Sulphur you will prevent the disease, provid- 
ing, of course, that remedy is indicated. If you are too late to prevent 
it you may still use Sulphur when exudation has commenced — that is, 
in the beginning of the stage of solidification. Even then it will 
modify the course of the disease. Again you may give it in torpid 



474 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

cases to bring about a reaction when resolution will not take place 
rapidly enough, and you fear the formation of tubercles. You may 
also use it in pneumonia with typhoid tendency, with slowness of 
speech, dry tongue, etc., and also at the later stage of pneumonia 
when the lungs refuse to return to their normal condition and you 
fear the breaking down of lung tissue. All sorts of rales may be 
heard in the chest. Expectoration is muco-purulent, the patient has 
hectic type of fever, loses flesh, etc. Sulphur will save the patient. 
But you should not give it after tubercles have formed. The proper 
remedy then is Lachesis. Sulphur is indicated only in the early stages 
of phthisis. It is seldom indicated in the advanced stages. But in 
the very incipiency, when you have an increase of blood in the chest, 
beginning dulness on percussion in the apex of either lung, diminished 
respiratory movement in the upper portion of the chest, Sulphur will, 
by equalizing the circulation, cure the case. 

In affections of the bowels we find Sulphur a very useful remedy. 
You may give it in diarrhoea when these characteristic symptoms are 
present: the stool changes frequently in color, at one time it is yellow, 
at another slimy, and at another watery. It may contain undigested 
food, especially in the case of scrofulous children. It is particularly 
worse in the morning, driving the patient out of bed. 

You may also use it in dysentery, particularly after the tenesmus 
has ceased, and mucus and blood are still being discharged. It is 
necessary that you distinguish several other remedies from Sulphur in 
moving diarrhoea. 

In the first place, Bryonia, which is useful for early morning diar- 
rhoea, which comes on as soon as the patient begins to move about. 

Natrum sulphuricum is similar to Sulphur, and is oftener required 
in scrofulous cases. It also has diarrhoea in the morning after getting 
up and moving about, but the stool is associated with a great deal of 
flatus. 

Another remedy is Rumex crispus, which has exactly the same symp- 
tom as Sulphur — early morning diarrhoea, hurrying the patient out of 
bed. But it is indicated after catarrhs, with the characteristic cough 
of Rumex. 

Still another remedy that is not infrequently confused with Sulphur 
is Podophyllum. This has early morning diarrhoea, hurrying the 
patient out of bed. Like Sulphur, the stools are of a changeable color. 
It differs from Sulphur in that the diarrhoea continues through the 



sulphur. 475 

whole day, although worse at noon. Then, too, with Sulphur you 
will almost always find the tendency to soreness and rawness of the 
anus. 

Phosphorus has morning diarrhoea, with green, painless stool. 

Dioscorea also has morning diarrhoea, but it is associated with grip- 
ing, colicky pains, pretty much of the same character as those calling 
for Colocynth, but they are apt to fly off to other parts of the body, and 
contrary to Colocynth the patient must bend backwards. 

I wish now to say a few words about the skin symptoms of Sulphur. 
I have referred to them already in brief, so that I am only supple- 
menting what has already been given to you. You will remember 
that the skin is apt to be harsh, rough, coarse, and measly in the 
genuine Sulphur patient. There is very little tendency to perspira- 
tion, or if there is perspiration, it is only partial, and offensive, sour, 
or musty. There is tendency to the formation of acne, principally on 
the face. Pustules form here and there over the body, which heal 
very slowly, indeed. Freckles are spread plentifully over the face, 
hands, and arms. There is also a tendency to intertrigo; soreness and 
rawness appear wherever there is a fold of skin, in the groin, mammae, 
or axillae, or in the folds of the neck. 

We find Sulphur indicated in that affection known as itch. Now, 
Hahnemann was the author of the theory that the suppression of itch 
by external salves, as by sulphur ointment, is responsible for the ap- 
pearance of many other diseases. He cited hundreds of cases to prove 
his assertions. Some years after this announcement a Corsican found 
the little sarcoptis homines burrowing beneath the skin and laying its 
eggs in these burrows. He showed this to be the cause of the itch, and 
then thought he had effected the complete destruction of the psora 
theory. But there is another side of the story. A man who is a victim 
of the "itch" goes along the street and meets two friends, A. and B., 
with both of whom he shakes hands, and A. contracts the disease while 
B. escapes. Now, there must be a difference in the constitutions of 
these individuals, or they would both have taken the itch or both 
escaped it, for they were both exposed to the same extraneous influ- 
ences. A.'s system must have been unsound or he could not have taken 
it, for the itch insect cannot find a suitable dwelling-place in a healthy 
organization. So, after all, the Corsican's discovery did not overthrow 
Hahnemann's psoric theory. The term psora is an unfortunate one, 
but it serves to indicate the constitution which favors the growth of 
the sarcoptis. 



476 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Sulphur is a valuable remedy in this affection, because it conforms 
so closely to the symptoms of the disease. It has itching in the bends 
of the joints and between the fingers as soon as the patient gets warm 
in bed. The skin becomes rough and scaly, and little vesicles form. 
As the disease progresses, you find occasional pustules appearing here 
and there over the eruption. Now, in order to rid your patient of this 
sarcoptis, wash the parts thoroughly in warm water with soap, and 
then have him rub the skin thoroughly with a common crash towel. 
Then apply the oil of lavender, which will kill both the eggs and the 
fully-developed insect without suppressing the disease. Then you may 
give Sulphur or some other indicated remedy internally. If Sulphur 
has been used externally and the itch suppressed, you may have other 
remedies to choose from. 

Give Mercurius when pustulous and eczematous eruptions complicate 
the case. 

Give Sepia particularly when constitutional symptoms appear. 
There are occasional large and well-formed pustules, which develop 
into an impetigo. 

Causticum is especially useful when itch has been suppressed by oint- 
ments of either mercury or sulphur. 

I next wish to say a few words about the action of Sulphur on the 
digestive apparatus. Sulphur is useful in disorders of the stomach, 
liver and intestinal canal. It may be indicated in dyspepsias of many 
varieties. The particular indications of the drug may be set down as 
these : first, in a general way, you find it indicated in patients who 
suffer from abdominal plethora or passive congestion of the portal 
system, as indicated by a sensation of tightness or fulness in the abdo- 
men, with feeling of repletion after partaking of but a small quantity 
of food. The liver is congested, enlarged and sore on pressure. The 
bowels are constipated, with frequent ineffectual urging to stool, and 
with haemorrhoids which are the direct results of this abdominal ple- 
thora. Constipation frequently alternates with the diarrhoea. In 
these cases the diarrhoea is not apt to be the early morning diarrhoea 
of Sulphur. This remedy may also be the remedy for gastric ailments 
arising from the suppression of an eruption, whether that be erysipelas, 
eczema, itch or the like. 

Dyspepsia of drunkards, after excessive use of brandy and beer 
rather than wines, sometimes calls for Sulphur. Here, too, you often 
find the enlarged or congested liver. 



sulphur. 477 

Sulphur is also indicated in dyspepsia from farinaceous food. It 
seems as if in every case of disease of the liver in which Sulphur is in- 
dicated, the patient cannot digest farinaceous food, which calls upon the 
pancreatic juice and bile as well as upon the gastric juice itself. The 
patient vomits a great deal. He cannot take any milk. If he attempts 
to do so he vomits it at once. That, as you know, is a common symp- 
tom in drunkards. The vomited matters are apt to be sour and mixed 
with undigested food. In addition to these symptoms you find all sorts 
of abnormalities of appetite. The patient is hungry at ten or eleven 
o'clock in the forenoon, even after eating a moderate breakfast. He 
has goneness, faintness or gnawing feeling in the epigastrium, as if he 
must have food or sink. When he gets the food and relieves his 
hunger, he begins to feel puffed up. He feels heavy and sluggish, and 
so low-spirited that he scarcely cares to live. It will be well to remem- 
ber that Stilphur is indicated not so much in the beginning of these 
affections as after Nux vomica. You find almost exactly the same 
symptoms under Nux. When that remedy only partially relieves, 
Sulphur comes in to complete the cure. 

Lachesis should be used in the enlarged liver of drunkards when the 
case has gone on to a low grade of symptoms, especially if inflamma- 
tion ensues and abscess forms in the liver. 

If the liver wastes away, secondarily to the congestion, we must de- 
pend upon the other remedies, the most important of which are Phos- 
phorus and Laurocerasus, the former especially if there is fatty degen- 
eration of the liver substance. 

Next, a word or two in regard to Sulphur in diseases of the sexual 
organs. There is a trio of medicines, Nux vomica, Sulphur and Cal- 
carea, which are useful in cases of masturbation and excessive venery. 
Beginning with Nux you note some improvement in the patient; by 
and by you will find symptoms of Sulphur presenting themselves. If 
Sulphur fails after producing partial relief, Calcarea completes the 
cure. The symptoms calling for Sulphur are these: you will find the 
patient weak and debilitated, having many of the gastric ailments that 
I have mentioned, particularly faintness, flushes of heat, cold feet and 
heat on the top of the head. There is frequent involuntary emission 
of semen at night, exhausting him the next morning. The seminal 
flow is thin and watery, and almost inodorous, and has lost all its 
characteristic properties, being nothing more than a shadow of the 
normal seminal secretion. The genital organs are relaxed; the 



478 A CWNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

scrotum and testicles hang flabbily; the penis is cold, and erections are 
few and far between. If coitus is attempted, semen escapes too soon, 
almost at the first contact. The patient suffers from backache and 
weakness of the limbs, so that he can scarcely walk. He is, of course, 
low-spirited and hypochondriacal. 

You may find Sulphur indicated in gonorrhoea, whether the dis- 
charge be thick and purulent, or thin and watery, when there are 
burning and smarting during urination, and when there is this bright 
redness of the lips of the meatus urinarius. Sulphur may also be used 
when phimosis occurs, especially when there is inflammation and in- 
duration of the prepuce. 

Sulphur also acts on the female genital organs. The main symptoms 
it produces are those which come from congestion of these organs. 
They are associated with flushes of heat and abdominal plethora; there 
are bearing down and weight in the uterine region, a feeling of fulness 
and heaviness there, standing is a very annoying position to her, and 
there is burning in the vagina, often in association with pruritus and 
appearance of papules on the mons veneris. 

The nearest remedy to Sulphur here is Aloes, which produces pre- 
cisely the same symptoms, the same bearing down, the same fulness of 
the abdomen from abdominal plethora. Sulphur has, in addition to the 
above symptoms, aversion to washing. Aloes acts more on the rectum 
than on any other portion of the alimentary tract. There is a constant 
desire for stool. When stool is expelled it is accompanied by a great 
deal of flatus. The haemorrhoids of Aloes protrude like bunches of 
grapes, and are always relieved by cold water. 

In closing my remarks on Sulphur, I want to mention two or three 
uses you can make of the crude article. Sulphur has in its totality of 
symptoms a perfect picture of cholera Asiatica. It suits the incip- 
ient symptoms. It bears a resemblance to the course of the disease, 
and also to the subsequent symptoms. We have, then, in Sulphur a 
true prophylactic of that dreaded epidemic. It may be used by plac- 
ing a little flowers of sulphur inside of the stockings, as recommended 
by Dr. Hering several years ago. This sulphur is absorbed, as shown 
by the exhalation of sulphuretted hydrogen with the sweat. 

Flowers of sulphur burnt in a closed room may be used as a disin- 
fectant. 



LECTURE XLVI. 

THE CARBON GROUP. 

Carbo animalis (contains phosphate of lime). 

Carbo vegetabilis (contains carbonate of potash) 

Graphites (contains iron). 

Aniline sulphate. 

Carboneum (Lampblack). 

Coal gas. 

Bisulphide of Carbon. 

I invite your attention this morning to the medicines obtained from 
the carbon group. Carbon in its purity is found only in the diamond. 
We have it comparatively pure, however, in lampblack, or Carboneum. 
Carbon will necessarily be somewhat different in its action, according 
to the source from which we obtained it. Hahnemann used princi- 
pally three carbons, Carbo animalis, Carbo vegetabilis and Graphites. 
The first he derived from the animal kingdom, the second from the 
vegetable, while the last was an artificial product found principal^ 
lining the interior of large iron retorts. Carbo animalis is obtained 
principally from bones. It contains some phosphate of lime. Carbo 
veg. contains some carbonate of potash. It is obtained principally 
from a variety of the beech- tree. Graphites is always contaminated 
with more or less iron. Hence you see that these are not pure carbons. 
I have also placed on the board the Sulphate of Aniline, which behaves 
like a carbon and is a carbonaceous compound. Then, too, we have 
Carboneum and Carbonic oxide. Carbo?iic acid gas does not seem to 
possess active medicinal properties. It is not very poisonous. Its 
main deleterious effects are due to deprivation of oxj^gen. Carbonic 
oxide is much more poisonous, producing death, not only by suffoca- 
tion, by displacing the needed oxygen, but by another remarkable 
peculiarity. It has the property or peculiarity of displacing oxygen 
from the blood and taking its place there. You know that oxygen 
is carried along in the blood by the red corpuscles. Carbo?iic oxide has 
the power of supplanting the oxygen in these structures. For a time, 



480 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

it seems to act like oyxgen, but soon its poisonous properties are mani- 
fested with all the inevitable results of asphyxia. Coal gas, which 
we obtain by slow combustion of coal, and the illuminating gas used 
in our large cities, are of this character. They produce serious effects 
when taken in large quantities, especially when the subject is deprived 
of the ordinary atmosphere. It is said that this coal gas is beneficial 
in the treatment of whooping-cough. I have known of but one case 
thus treated, and that one died. Bisulphide of Carbon, which has also 
been proved, has some valuable symptoms. 

Now, all of the carbonaceous substances have some properties in 
common. For instance, they all have a tendency to relieve putrescence 
or putrid discharges or putrid exhalations from the body and offensive 
sores. You all know the mechanical properties of charcoal, what an 
absorbent it is, and how it can purify the atmosphere or substances 
that are undergoing decomposition. The animal charcoal, which is 
more porous, is here more effectual than the vegetable. If you bury 
a dead rat or mouse in charcoal for several months, you will not find 
any odor from decomposed tissue at the end of that time, but only a 
clean white skeleton. But this property, I would have you know, is 
not entirely mechanical. In the potencies, it may .be exemplified in 
the human system. Now I do not mean that potentized charcoal will 
remove the odor from a decomposing animal, but I do say, that in a 
potentized state it exerts similar effects on the human system. 

All the carbons act also on the skin, producing excoriations and inter- 
trigo. They affect the glands also, causing enlargement and indura- 
tion of the axillary and other lymphatic glands, even as in the case of 
Carbo veg. and Carbo animalis, simulating cancerous enlargement and 
infiltration. They all affect the mucous membranes, producing catarrhs 
of the nose, throat and lungs, and also of the bowels. They all tend 
to produce asphyxia. We find this prominently in Carbo veg., less so 
in the Carbo animalis, and very marked in Aniline and Carboneum. 
Carbojieum may produce asphyxia with convulsions simulating those 
of epilepsy. Coal gas and Carbonic oxide, too, are calculated to pro- 
duce dyspnoea from deprivation of oxygen. We find, also, that all 
the carbons act on the veins, producing varicose veins. We find, too, 
that all the carbons tend to produce flatulence This is one of the 
reasons why I object to toast as an article of diet for the sick. Toast, 
when the bread is nicely dried through by gentle and continuous heat, 
is very beneficial, but when it is charred, it tends to produce flatulence. 
The flatus is offensive and has an odor like that of rotten eggs. 



THE CARBON GROUP. 



481 



Carbo veg. 



V 

Kali c. 



V 
Phos. 



Carbo Vegetabilis. 

Ars., China, Phos., Phos. ac. 
In collapse, Camph., Veratr. alb. 
Caust., Kalic, Sulph. 

I Ant. tart., Amnion, c. 
<{ Baryt. c, Mosch., Nitr. 



Paralysis of 
lunsrs 



ac. 



( Lauroc, Lach., Opium. 



Bry., Nux v., Puis., etc. 



As I have already intimated to you, Carbo veg. contains some car- 
bonate of potash. It is also a fact worthy of note that Kali carb. is 
complementary to Carbo veg. , especially in lung and throat affections 
and also in dyspepsia. Carbo veg. is also complementary to Phos- 
bhorus, here, too, in chest affections, in the throat more than anywhere 
else and, in excessive debility, particularly in the threatened paralysis 
of the whole system as a sequel to severe disease. The drug is anti- 
doted by Arsenicum and Camphor, and holds an inimical relation with 
Causticicm. The inimical relation between Carbo veg. and Causticum 
is not so marked as that between the latter remedy and Phosphorus. 

Carbo veg. is especially indicated in patients who are advanced in life, 
and, consequently, debilitated. It is called for in weak, delicate per- 
sons who are old dyspeptics, especially if they have abused their 
digestive organs by debauchery. 

In analyzing the drug we will speak first of its effects on the blood. 
We find Carbo veg. indicated in affections in which the composition of 
the blood is decidedly changed. There is decided sepsis or blood 
poisoning in many of the diseases in which Carbo veg. is the remedy. 
We find the drug indicated in haemorrhages, haemorrhages, too, of a 
very low type. Thus we give it in epistaxis or nose-bleed when the 
face is pale and sunken and almost hippocratic. The blood flows 
persistently for hours, perhaps for days. It is dark and rather fluid. 
It is apt to occur in old and rather debilitated persons and during the 
course of diphtheria. You find nearly the same symptoms under 
Camphor and Mercurius cyanatus. 

We also find Carbo veg. indicated in haemorrhages from the lungs, 
not only in haemoptysis but also in bronchorrhagia. In these cases 
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482 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

the patient suffers from great anxiety and yet without any particular 
restlessness. The anxiety is very evident in the face and in the efforts 
at breathing, but there is no particular restless tossing about. The 
patient complains of burning pain in the chest. Carbo veg. is to be 
used especially in well advanced cases of lung degeneration. The 
pulse in these cases is apt to be intermittent and thready, the face is 
pale and often covered with cold sweat. The patient wants to be 
fanned, because fanning brings more air to the lungs. 

These same symptoms indicate Carbo veg. in haemorrhages from the 
uterus, whether metrorrhagia or menorrhagia. Here, again, you find 
marked burning pains across the sacrum and lower portion of the 
spine. If the haemorrhage continues any length of time you will 
notice the same trouble in the chest, with the difficulty in breathing 
above mentioned. 

Carbo veg. will here work hand in hand with Cinchona and Arseni- 
cum. Arsenicum is useful in these persistent haemorrhages of a low 
type, depending upon some degeneration in the organ affected. Both 
it and Carbo veg. have these violent burning pains. With the Arseni- 
cum, however, you have, as a distinction which applies in all con- 
ditions, irritability of fibre and mind, which is not the case with 
Carbo veg. Carbo veg. is a torpid, sluggish remedy, while Arsenicum^ 
has irritability, with restless tossing about, anxiety, etc. 

Ipecacuanha should also be remembered in haemorrhages, especially 
in haemorrhages from the lungs and uterus, when the patient takes 
long breaths, as if panting. Unless there is present coldness, amount- 
ing almost to collapse, you may prefer to begin with this drug rather 
than with Carbo veg. or Cinchona. 

Next we find Carbo veg. useful in varicose veins which occur on 
either the arms or legs, or even on the female genital organs. These 
varicose veins tend to ulcerate. They are bluish or livid, looking as 
though the blood had long remained in them. In the resultant vari- 
cose ulcers you will find very similar symptoms to those in other 
ulcers in which Carbo veg. is the remedy; burning pains, and mottled 
appearance of the surrounding skin as though the smaller veins had 
become enlarged. Bcchymoses are seen beneath the skin. The 
ulcers have a decidedly indolent appearance. 

Carbo veg. is also useful in ulcers other than varicose when they are 
of a very low type. The}^ are flat, tending rather to spread on the 
surface than to dip deeply into the parenchyma. They discharge not 



THE CARBON GROUP. 483 

a laudable pus, but instead, that which is ichorous, corrosive, thin, 
burning and offensive in character. The burning is worse at night, 
depriving the patient of sleep and keeping him in torture the whole 
night. Even in cancerous ulcers, as in ulcerating scirrhus, you will 
find Carbo veg. useful. 

It may also be administered in carbuncle, particularly when the af- 
fected parts are bluish or livid, and when the discharges are offensive 
and associated with burning pains. In these cases it is not only your 
duty to give it internally, but also to apply it externally as a plaster. 
It tends to prevent decomposition of fluids, sweetens the sore and so 
prevents poisoning of the system. The same is true for gangrene. 
When carbuncles or boils become gangrenous, Carbo veg. may be indi- 
cated. In these cases it is distinguished from Arsenicum by the absence 
of this extreme restlessness. 

In febrile conditions, Carbo veg. is useful for the typhoid and inter- 
mittent types of fever, for collapse during fever, and for yellow fever. 
It is a preventive of yellow fever just as Sulphur is of cholera. If all 
the ejecta of the patient are buried in charcoal, the spread of the disease 
will surely be prevented. When the disease is fully established, Carbo 
veg. is of no more use than Sulphur is during the course of cholera. 

The intermittent type of fever in which you may employ Carbo veg. 
is of a low grade. The case is one of long standing, and has been 
abused by quinine. There is thirst during the chill. The feet are 
icy-cold up to the knee, a very characteristic symptom of Carbo veg. 
When the heat comes, it is in burning flashes. The sweat is either 
sour or else exceedingly offensive from alterations in the discharges of 
the skin. During the apyrexia the patient is pale and weak. Memory 
is weak ; the mind seems to be befogged. The patient is decidedly 
low-spirited and melancholy. 

In the hectic type of fever, Carbo veg. is indicated by pretty much 
the same symptoms as those which I have already mentioned. It is 
particularly useful for hectic fever dependent upon long-lasting suppu- 
ration, whether due to abscess in the lungs, or in the hip-joint, or 
about the vertebrae. Menyanthes is the remedy in quartan fever when 
the legs below the knees are icy-cold. 

You know that abscesses accompanying diseases of the spine may 
have to be opened. Sometimes surgeons are afraid to do this before 
they have prepared the system for it, because reaction is so slow that 
the patient may not survive. The danger from opening these abscesses 



484 ; A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

may be greatly lessened by the use of Carbo veg. or Cinchona, accord- 
ing to the particular indications. 

In collapse from various causes you may use Carbo veg. There is 
decided lack of animal heat. The nose, cheeks and extremities are 
cold. It is indicated in the late stages of typhoid fever; after pro- 
tracted loss of vital fluids, as after long-lasting haemorrhages; during 
cholera Asiatica; during pneumonia; and, in fact, in any form of dis- 
ease in which these symptoms appear. The body may be icy-cold, 
especially about the extremities; the breath is cool; the pulse is 
thread-like, scarcely perceptible and intermittent. The lips may be 
bluish from cyanosis. Breathing is very weak and superficial; the 
patient may be either conscious or unconscious. Now, Carbo veg. in 
just such cases comes in as a savior, and rescues many a case that 
would otherwise die. 

There are other remedies similar to Carbo veg. in collapse. Camphor ; 
especially, is similar to it in cholera Asiatica, but it is indicated rather 
in the beginning of cholera without any vomiting or diarrhoea; when 
the poison seems to have depressed or shocked the nervous system, so 
that the patient is icy-cold, dry or in a cold sweat; the tongue is cold. 
If he can speak it is in a squeaky or in a high-pitched voice, or else it 
is a husky, toneless voice. Camphor, in such cases, brings about 
reaction very quickly. Carbo veg. would be indicated in the later 
stage, when the prostration is the result of the drain on the system by 
the alvine discharges. 

Veratrum album is also similar to Carbo veg. in collapse. It has 
cramps in the calves of the legs, the thighs and the chest, and char- 
acteristically cold sweat on the forehead. 

I wish next to say a word about the action of Carbo veg. on glands. 
The glands, especially the mammae, become indurated. There are 
burning pains in the swollen glands, with tendency to suppuration. 
When they do suppurate, the discharged pus is not of a laudable char- 
acter. 

We find Carbo veg. indicated in catarrhal troubles which are pro- 
voked by warm moist atmosphere, such as we have in this latitude 
with southwest or southerly winds. The patient is worse in the even- 
ing or less characteristically in the morning. He has aphonia recurring 
regularly each evening, painless or associated with raw feeling down 
the larynx and trachea. There is dry tickling cough, at times quite 
spasmodic in character. 



THE CARBON GROUP. 485 

It is here analogous to Phosphorus, and is often preceded or followed 
by that remedy. The Phosphorus aphonia is associated with rawness 
of the larynx, and is worse in the evening. 

In the morning aphonia, Carbo veg. is more closely allied to Sulphur, 
which has loss of voice, particularly in the morning. 

Still another concordant remedy is Causticum, which is suited to 
laryngeal catarrh in singers with rough hoarse voice, associated with 
tracheo-bronchial catarrh, and rawness and burning under the sternum. 
This group is found under both remedies. The main difference is 
that Causticum has hoarseness worse in the morning, and Carbo veg. in 
the evening. Causticum has aggravation in dry, cold weather, and 
Carbo veg. in a damp warm atmosphere. 

Another remedy is Eupatorium perfoliatum, which I use for hoarse- 
ness with soreness in the larynx, trachea and bronchial tubes. The 
hoarseness is worse in the morning, and is apt to be associated with 
aching all over the body. 

Carbo veg. may also be used in asthma, particularly in the asthma 
of old people and of people who are very much debilitated. They 
look, during the asthmatic attack, as if they would die, so oppressed 
are they for breath. They are greatty relieved by belching wind. It 
is especially indicated in asthma which is reflex from accumulation of 
flatus in the abdomen. 

It may also be used in threatening paralysis of the lungs in typhoid 
fever, after pneumonia, and in old people. The "paralytic catarrh " 
of old people calls for Ca?'bo veg. There are loose rattling rales when 
the patient coughs or breathes, a marked symptom of emphysema. 
The bronchial tubes are greatly dilated. In addition to this you will 
find coldness, symptoms of collapse, etc. 

The nearest approach to Carbo veg. in emphysema is Ammonium 
carb., which, like Carbo veg., has blood poisoned by carbonic acid, 
giving you the coldness, blueness, etc., incident to that condition. 

In threatened paralysis of the lungs, we have a great many reme- 
dies to consider, most of which I will reserve until we come to speak 
of Phosphorus, which stands very close to Carbo veg. Then, too, you 
should also remember Mochus and Antimouium tartaricum. 

A?iti??io?iiu?7i tartaricum applies when there are loud rales heard in 
the chest. It seems as if there was an immense amount of mucus 
there, and yet the patient can scarcely raise any of it. The extremities 
are cold and blue from the cyanosis developed by the blood poisoning. 



486 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

The patient^soon becomes drowsy and passes into a stupor from which 
he can be aroused, but into which he readily relapses. You should 
also remember Antimonium tartaricum when, in the course of lung 
affections, whether there be bronchiectasia or catarrh on the chest in 
children (and here it is especially called for), the cough ceases or be- 
comes more rare and yet there is no diminution in the mucus-pro- 
duction itself. Your practiced ear placed on the chest detects just as 
copious an J exudation, and just as much rattling of phlegm in the 
lungs, and yet the child does not cough so frequently. The mother 
thinks the child is better, but in reality it is worse, for the lungs are 
losing their power. 

Carbo veg. is an excellent remedy for the terrible dyspnoea of chronic 
aortitis, especially when the patient has become very anaemic, drop- 
sical, etc. Here you should compare Arsenicum, Cuprum and 
Lachesis. 

Still further, I want to speak of the action of Carbo veg. on the 
stomach and bowels. We find it here, rivalling other well-known 
remedies in dyspepsia or indigestion, and those of a rather low type, 
too. We find it indicated, too, for the bad effects of debauchery, for 
excessive indulgence in table luxuries, and for bad effects from wines 
and liquors and all kinds of dissipation. As a result of dissipation, we 
may have just such symptoms as call for Carbo veg.; headache, par- 
ticularly in the morning when the patient awakens from sleep, having 
spent the best part of the night carousing; dull headache referred to 
the back part of the head, with a great deal of confusion of mind. 
There is humming or buzzing in the head as though a hornet's nest 
had taken its place there. The patient feels worse in the warm room. 
The pain also seems to go from the occiput through the head and into 
and over the eyes, with dull heavy aching in that region. There are 
nausea and usually a sort of burning distress and weakness referred to 
the epigastrium. He is unable to take any fat food, whether meat, 
gravy or fried food. He cannot drink milk because it produces flatu- 
lence. After eating the stomach feels heavy, as if it were dragged 
down. The abdomen is distended with flatus and both belchings and 
borborygmi are offensive. The wind belched has a rancid or putrid 
taste, and a decidedly offensive odor when passed from the bowels. He 
suffers from constipation with piles. The piles get worse every time 
he is on a spree; oozing of moisture from anus; perineum, sore, 



THE CARBON GROUP. 4.87 

itching.* Sometimes they protrude and are bluish, they are so dis- 
tended with blood. At other times, he has morning diarrhoea with stool 
which is very watery and thin and accompanied by a great deal of 
straining. We find Carbo veg. particularly indicated here after the 
failure of Nux vomica. The patient is peevish, easily angered. Vertigo 
reflex from the gastric disturbance is present. It is especially worse 
after a debauch and excessive indulgence in high living. It is often 
associated with syncope, especially at meals or after eating. 

The nearest concordant remedy here is Arsenicum. Both remedies 
have bluish protruding piles, both have burning in the epigastrium, 
both have anxiety, and both are suitable for the bad effects of ice- 
cream, and ice-water in hot weather. The difference may be expressed 
in these few words : Carbo veg. is torpid, Arsenicumis always irritable ; 
of the two remedies, Carbo veg. has the burning most marked espe- 
cially in internal parts, as in the stomach. 

Nux vomica impinges on Carbo veg. in the bad effects of over-eating 
and high living. As I have already said, Carbo veg. comes in when 
Nux has ceased to act. The Nux toper is a thin, spare, yellow, wiry 
fellow. That of Carbo veg. is sluggish, stout and lazy. 

Next we are to distinguish Carbo veg. from Cinchona. This is easily 
done, because the two drugs meet only in the flatulent dyspepsia and 
in debility. Cinchona is suited to a peculiar functional debility, when 
the system is devitalized by loss of animal fluids. Carbo veg. is the 
better remedy when the debility arises from organic causes, and we 
have a picture of collapse with hippocratic face and coldness of the 
body, particularly of the knees. Both remedies produce great flatu- 
lence. Cinchona, however, does not have the rancid belching with 
burning. Belching temporarily relieves the symptoms in Carbo veg. 
In Cinchona they sometimes seem to be worse therefrom. 

Lycopodium also typifies perfectly this state of tympanites. The 
abdomen is enormously distended. The distinction to be made is this : 
Carbo veg. produces more flatulence of the bowels, Lycopodium more of 
the stomach. Again, Carbo veg. produces rancid belching, or else 
passage of offensive flatus, with bitter taste in the mouth. Lycopodium 
has more of a sour taste with its belching. 

* Perineum, moist, raw, oozing, etc.; Amnion, c, Alum, Natr. m., CARBO V., 
Carbo a., NITR. AC, Graph (and cracked), SuivPH., Rhus tox., Arsenic, Ant. 
cr. (mucous piles), THUJA (offensive oozing), SIIylCEA (moist), Sulphuric 
acid, Capsic, Petroleum (see also Fissures), Borax (slimy, purulent oozing), 
Sepia (oozing). 



488 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Carbo veg. may be indicated in dysentery. Here it is called for in 
very severe cases. There are burning pains situated deep in the 
abdomen, usually in one or the other of the bends of the colon. The 
abdomen is greatly distended and tympanitic. The pulse is weak and 
intermittent. The discharges from the bowels are horribly offensive 
and brown, watery and slimy in appearance. You see what a desper- 
ate case we have here, one that calls for great skill in prescribing. 
Here you must distinguish between two other remedies and Carbo veg., 
namely, Arsenicum and Cinchona. 

Arsenicum helps when there is, as I have said, that irritability of 
fibre. The patient is just as sick and just as near death's door as is 
the Carbo veg. patient, but he is restless, and complains of burning 
thirst and yet exhibits an intolerance of water. The discharges from 
the bowels are about the same in character under the two remedies. 
Arsenic, however, has less tympanitic distension of the abdomen. 

Cinchona and Carbo veg. are also similar in these cases. Both have 
these dark offensive fluid discharges, both have the distension of the 
abdomen, both have great weakness and hippocratic face. With Cin- 
chona, however, the movements from the bowels are provoked by every 
attempt to eat or drink. Belching gives but temporary relief . Again, 
the flatus is not so offensive as with Carbo veg. , nor are the burning 
pains so marked as under Carbo veg. or Arseyiicum. 



Carbo animalis. 



LECTURE XLVIL 

CARBO ANIMALIS, GRAPHITES AND PETROLEUM. 

Carbo Animalis. 

Bromine. 

Sepia, Natr. m. 
{ Silic, Phos. 
I Badiaga. 

[ Merc, iod., Nitr. ac. 
Calc. phos. 

Carbo animalis and Carbo veg. do not follow each other well. 
They are so far inimical that one may not be given with benefit after 
the other. They are too nearly alike. Carbo animalis contains some 
phosphate of lime. Carbo animalis is complementary to Calcarea phos- 
phor ica, especially in affections of the glands. 

Carbo animalis is suited to old persons and to those who are greatly 
debilitated by disease, especially when there is a predominance of what 
is known as venous plethora. You find such patients particularly in- 
clined to blueness of the skin. The hands and feet readily become 
blue, with distended veins showing through the skin. They become 
ill from very slight causes. The cheeks often get bluish. Both 
remedies are indicated in decomposition of tissue of the body, as in 
gangrene and ulcerations of the surface or of internal parts, with 
putrid discharges. Both, too, are indicated in weakness of the digest- 
ive organs, both are indicated for the bad effects of loss of animal 
fluids, particularly during lactation. 

Now, as a general distinction between the two drugs, you may re- 
member this: although both drugs act on the glands, the predomi- 
nance is in favor of the Carbo animalis for glandular affections. For 
instance, we find it indicated in induration of glands, of the axillary 
glands and of the glands in the groin, particularly in syphilitic or 
gonorrhoeal patients. These buboes are hard like stone; Carbo animalis 
is especially useful when these have been opened too soon, and when 



49° A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

there is a gaping wound which has partly healed, leaving the sur- 
rounding tissues of an almost stony hardness. 

Badiaga rivals Carbo animalis in just these cases, particularly in in- 
durated buboes that have been maltreated. 

Again, we find Carbo animalis indicated in cancer more frequently 
than Carbo veg.; particularly is it useful in cancer of the breast or of 
the uterus. In mammary cancer you have the glands indurated in 
little nodes; or small circumscribed portions which are as hard as stone. 
L<ater the skin around the induration becomes bluish and mottled, 
thus showing you the characteristic effect of Carbo animalis in produc- 
ing venous stasis. The axillary glands on the affected side become 
indurated and there are burning, drawing pains through the mammae. 
In the case of cancer of the uterus there are induration of the cervix, 
metrorrhagia, and burning pains extending down the thighs, and thin, 
offensive vaginal discharge. 

In affections of the digestive organs, Carbo a?iimalis differs from 
Carbo veg. in this: we find that under Carbo animalis there is goneness 
and empty feeling in the pit of the stomach, not relieved by eating, 
and in this respect it is very similar to Sepia. 

We find these symptoms indicating Carbo a?iimalis in preference to 
Carbo veg. in the weakness of nursing women ; we notice that every 
particle of food taken distresses the stomach, just as we found under 
Carbo veg. , but with Carbo animalis there is coldness about the stomach, 
which is relieved by pressing firmly with the hand or by friction over 
the abdomen, thus showing you the weak debilitated condition in 
which the patient is, who requires this remedy. Carbo veg. has drag- 
ging heaviness about the stomach to distinguish it. Both remedies 
have piles with this weak digestion, but there is oozing of a thin, 
inodorous fluid from the rectum in Carbo a?iimalis which does not 
exist as markedly under Carbo veg. 

Both drugs meet again in affections of the chest. We find them both 
indicated in the late stages of pneumonia, bronchitis, or of phthisis 
pulmonalis, when there is destruction of the lung tissue and decom- 
position of the fluid which is expectorated. It is just here that you 
are most liable to make a mistake in selecting one drug for the other. 
Carbo animalis has this symptom to distinguish it, suffocating hoarse 
cough producing shaking of the brain as though the brain were loose 
in the head. And a cold feeling in the chest. Expectoration is 
green, purulent and horribly offensive, and conies generally from the 



CARBO ANIMALIS. 49 1 

right lung, in which you probably will find by examination, a cavity. 
As soon as the patient closes his eyes he feels as if he were smothering. 

Other remedies having cold sensation in the chest are: Bromine, Paris 
quad, and Camphor. 

The Carbo veg. cough is spasmodic, with deep, rough voice or else 
with aphonia. There is decided burning in the chest and expectora- 
tion is profuse, particularly in the bronchitis of old people. It is 
yellow and very foetid, more so than in Carbo animalis. The patient 
has dyspnoea, worse on turning over in bed and on dropping off to 
sleep. There is a great deal of rattling in the chest. 

Carbo animalis is more useful than Carbo veg. in constitutional 
syphilis, and for this reason: while both may be indicated in consti- 
tutional or tertiary syphilis, after the abuse of mercury, particularly 
when the glands are affected, and there is great emaciation, Carbo 
a?iimalis is indicated more by these symptoms: it has coppery- red 
blotches on the skin, particularly on the face. That you know to be 
the characteristic hue of syphilitic eruptions. In this respect it re- 
sembles Mercurius bin., Nitric acid and Badiaga more than it does 
Carbo veg. 

In debility, we find Carbo veg. always superior to Carbo animalis. 
There are very few characteristic S3^mptoms indicating the latter as a 
remedy in the last stages of typhoid fever, pneumonia and scarlatina. 
The only difficulty you will have in deciding between the two drugs 
will be in the debility attendant upon lactation. 

In affections of the ears we find Carbo veg. and Carbo animalis 
again meeting. Thus, we find both drugs causing otorrhoea. The 
discharge is thin, ichorous, bloody and excoriating in both remedies. 
With Carbo animalis there is also associated a swelling of the perios- 
teum behind the ears over the mastoid process. Here it is similar to 
Nitric acid, Aurum and Capsicum. With Carbo veg. we find this 
otorrhoea particularly as a sequel to exanthematous diseases, as measles 
and scarlatina. There is no swelling of the periosteum back of the 
ear. Both remedies are indicated in deafness. Carbo animalis has 
this peculiar symptom: they cannot tell whence sound comes. Carbo 
veg. is indicated in deafness when the ears are too dry from the absence 
of the cerumen or wax, or when there is discharge of offensive ceru- 
men. 

In eye affections we find Carbo animalis indicated when the patient 
is far-sighted; while walking along the street objects seem to him to 



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A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 



be far off . The eyes seem as if they were loose in their sockets. This 
feeling is due to relaxation in the connective tissue similar to that 
found in the brain. Old people have dimness of sight on attempting 
to read, but this is relieved by rubbing the eyes. 

Carbo veg. is indicated when the patient is near-sighted; objects 
have to be placed near to the eye to be seen. This symptom is worse 
after exerting the eyes or after using them steadily for any length of 
time. 

Graphites. 



Graphites. 



V V 

Arsenicum. Ferrum. 



r Sepia, Pulsatilla. 
Kali carb., Phosphorus, Calcarea ostr. 
Sulphur, Iyycopodium,Silicea, Hepar. 
Phytolacca. 

Mezereum, Petroleum, Iris, Rhus. 
Mercurius, Antimon. crudum. 
Staphisagria. 
Ratanhia, Pseonia, Nitric acid. 



Graphites. \ 



Slight erethism; then weak, relaxed, anaemic; chlorotic. 

Fat, chilly, costive; lymphatic glands swollen. 

Skin: cracked, rhagades, fissures, herpes, eczema, oozing 

of scanty gluey humor. 
Cicatrices are softened. 
Mucous membranes: scanty secretion, cracks, fissures, etc. 

Graphites is not a pure carbon. Even the purest specimens of it 
contain some iron. You will note that I have placed beneath it two 
complements, namely, Arsenicum and Ferrum. It has many symp- 
toms in common with Ferrum, acting complementary to that drug, and 
many more allying it to Arsenicum. 

It is a relative of frerrum, principally in that class of symptoms be- 
longing to anaemia or chlorosis of females, such as irregularities in the 
distribution of the blood, and pallor of both skin and mucous mem- 
branes. 

It is complementary to Arsenic in many of the skin symptoms, in 
affections of the glands, burning in internal parts, etc. Besides these 
complementary remedies, Graphites has quite a number of concordant 
remedies. It is antidoted by Arsenicum, and in some of its gastric 



GRAPHITES. 493 

symptoms by Nux vomica. Arsenicum, you thus see, holds two rela- 
tions to Graphites; one of antidote and one of complement. It is com- 
plementary in one series of effects, and antidotal in another. It 
antidotes especially the mental symptoms of Graphites. 

The Graphites patient is sad and full of grief, particularly if a 
female. She has an anxious, apprehensive state of mind. She has 
forebodings of some imaginary accident or mishap which is about to 
take place; and this makes her anxious and restless; impelling her to 
move about from place to place; she cannot be kept quiet. It is this 
group of symptoms which Arsenicum antidotes. We find this anxious, 
apprehensive state of mind in Graphites to be a very important symp- 
tom. You all know how important in making a homoeopathic pre- 
scription the mental symptoms are. We find this apprehensiveness, 
this low spiritedness, qualifying many of the Graphites conditions. 
We see it in the chlorosis, in the skin symptoms, in the inflammations 
of the eye, etc., as you will discover later on. 

We find Graphites acting best in constitutions in which there is a 
tendency to obesity. This obesity, I would have you remember, is not 
the healthy, solid flesh, that belongs to a full-blooded, strong, hearty 
individual, but it is of the kind which you find under Calcarea ostre- 
arum, showing improper nutrition. The two remedies run close 
to each other in these fat but unhealthy individuals. The Graphites 
constitution is also one in which there is deficient animal heat, owing 
to the defective oxygenation of the blood. These patients are always 
cold, whether they are in or out of doors. The circulation is at first 
excited, followed b5^ loss of energy and consequent venous hyperaemia. 
Syncope readily occurs, with great anxiety. Motion is impaired and 
tissues are relaxed, but paralysis is not complete. In the case of 
chlorosis, the Graphites patient has these symptoms: there is a ten- 
dency to rush of blood to the head, with flushing of the face, exactly 
like that which belongs to Ferrum. The patient feels a sudden shock 
about the heart, and this is followed by rush of blood to the head. 
She thinks she has heart disease. On lying down at night, she ex- 
periences throbbing all through the body. That is not due to true 
plethora. The blood is decidedly "watery," and, if you were to ex- 
amine it microscopically, you would find an excessive number of white 
blood corpuscles. The menstrual flow in these cases is too late, too 
pale and too scanty. The mucous membranes are apt to be pale, just 
as you find under Ferrum. The lips are pale. There is leucorrhoea, 



494 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

which is watery and quite profuse, sometimes excoriating the parts over 
which it flows. 

Now, you may say, how are we going to distinguish this from Pul- 
satilla? Iyike Graphites, Pulsatilla has late and scanty menses, with 
pale or dark flow in chlorotic or anaemic patients; also in patients who 
are apt to be chilly, and who are low-spirited, crying at every im- 
aginary trouble. How will you distinguish between these remedies ? 
The main distinction lies in this: the Graphites patient always has 
some skin symptoms to aid us, Pulsatilla scarcely any. The Graph- 
ites patient has a rough, harsh, dry skin, with very little tendency to 
sweat. lyittle pimples, whether containing pus or not, appear on the 
body, and are apt to be worse at the menstrual periods. While in 
Pulsatilla there is strong tendency to diarrhoea, in Graphites there is 
strong tendency to constipation. These symptoms are sufficient to 
always enable you to distinguish between these two closely allied 
remedies. 

Next, as most important in our study of Graphites, I wish to call 
your attention to the action of the remedy on the lymphatic glands, 
and also upon the skin. It produces enlargement of the lymphatic 
glands, of the neck and of the axillae, and also of the inguinal and of 
the mesenteric glands. This, together with marked skin symptoms, 
calls frequently for its use in scrofula. Now, we find it running par- 
allel with Calcarea ostrearum, Sulphur and Silicea in scrofulosis, par- 
ticularly of children. We find the abdomen large and hard. The 
children thus affected suffer from diarrhoea, with stools which are. thin, 
offensive and contain partially digested food. 

In inflammation of the eyes, of a scrofulous character, we have no 
remedy, not even Calcarea, Sulphur or Arsenic, that excels Graphites. 
The cornea is apt to be covered with superficial ulcers, or again, it 
may be inflamed. There is thickening of the eyelids, particularly 
along the edges, which are covered with scurf or scales. The lids may 
be agglutinated or not, but the grand characteristic which makes the 
choice of Graphites certain is this: the blepharitis is worse in the 
angles of the eye, in the canthi. If there is tendency for the edges of 
the lids to crack and bleed, you need not hesitate to use Graphites. 
The thickening of the cartilages of the lids may be so great as to pro- 
duce ectropion or entropion. Then, too, the eyelashes become wild, 
turn in towards the ball of the eye and irritate the conjunctiva. 
Hardened styes may appear along the edges of the lids. Graphites 



GRAPHITES. 495 

also affects the vision. Letters appear double and run together. An 
eczematous eruption appears about the eyes, on the cheeks, on and 
behind the ears, on the top of the head and down the occiput. It may 
also be scattered here and there over the surface of the body, particu- 
larly in the bends of the joints. Behind the ears it assumes the form 
of intertrigo, being moist and sticky. If the child lies on its ear, the 
ear will be glued fast to the head. Sometimes you find Graphites in- 
dicated in phlyctenular ophthalmia. Little vesicles form on the 
cornea and on other parts of the eye, producing profuse, burning 
lachrymation. These tears are mixed with pus, which is thin, and 
excoriates the cheek over which it flows. The discharge from the 
nose, which is partly from the eye by the way of the puncta lachrymali, 
is also thin and excoriating, and you find cracks and crusts around the 
nostrils quite in harmony with the condition of the borders of the eye- 
lids. 

I would now like to mention briefly a few of the distinctions between 
Graphites and its allied remedies. Petroleum or coal-oil is similar to 
Graphites in many of its' symptoms. It has an eruption very much 
like that of Graphites and is particularly indicated when the most 
marked symptom is an intertrigo behind the ears. If the child is old 
enough, he will also complain of aching and other painful symptoms 
in the back of the head. The main distinction between the two reme- 
dies is that Graphites pictures more of a herpes and Petroleum a pure 
eczema. 

In prescribing Calcarea ostrearum the local symptoms, particularly 
those of the eyes, do not help you much. They are too general. 
They are just the symptoms of scrofulous ophthalmia. But you would 
be aided in your selection of the drug by its general sj^mptoms, sweat 
of the head and cold, damp feet which are not prominent under 
Graphites. You may also remember that Calcarea ostrearum is the 
best remedy for the results of scrofulous ophthalmia, rather than the 
acute symptoms themselves. It is best suited to the opacities of the 
cornea and the thickening of the lids. 

Arsenicum has the same burning, excoriating discharge from the 
eyes, but is distinguished by this: the lids are spasmodically closed. 
Otherwise the symptoms are provokingly similar. 

Sulphur will help you when the edges of the lids are redder than 
natural, while under Graphites the edges of the lids are paler than they 
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496 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDIC'A. 

Euphrasia is useful in phlyctenular ophthalmia with excoriating dis- 
charge, etc. But although the discharge is excoriating under Eu- 
phrasia it is also thick and purulent, while under Graphites it is thin. 

Mercurius is also useful in scrofulous cases, especially when the 
patient is worse at night and from the heat and glare of the fire. 
Mercurius is decidedly preferable if syphilis complicates scrofulosis. 

Hepar is very similar indeed to Graphites. It is preferable when 
there is throbbing in and about the eye. Now even if the child is 
not old enough to describe its symptoms you will notice from its 
actions that there is pain and you will see evidence of the formation of 
pus; for instance, suppurating styes form on the lids. Hepar suits 
the suppurative process better than does Graphites. You will also 
notice that the Hepar child will not allow anything to press on the 
eye, because the parts are so sensitive. 

Graphites is said to prevent the return of erysipelas when that dis- 
ease becomes constitutional. The affected parts feel hard and tough, 
and if it be the face that is involved, are very much distorted. There 
are burning, stinging pains, as we found under Apis. It usually com- 
mences on the right side and goes to the left. It is particularly useful 
when Iodine has been abused. 

Still further, you must remember the use of Graphites in the re- 
moval of cicatrices. This remedy seems to have the property of causing^ 
the absorption of cicatricial tissue. It was long ago noticed in workers 
in graphite, that wounds on the hands healed and the cicatrices disap- 
peared very rapidly. Dr. Guernsey has made use of this property of 
the drug for the removal of cicatrices that form after mammary abscess. 
Professor Korndoerfer greatly relieved a child's eye by the remedy. 
The child had been operated on, and cicatrices formed which contracted 
more than the surgeon expected they would. Graphites so far relieved 
the case that the parts assumed their normal position. 

We next have to speak of the action of Graphites on the digestive 
organs, and here it is allied particularly to the other carbons, Carbo 
veg. and Carbo animalis. We find the patient complaining of disagree- 
able taste in the mouth in the morning, as though he had been eating 
eggs. This symptom is more marked here than in any other carbon. 
The patient is worse from all meats. This symptom you find under 
Pulsatilla, Ferrum, and, in fact, under all chlorotic remedies. 

Sweet things nauseate and disgust the patient. After eating, the 
stomach becomes distended with wind. There is burning pain in the 



GRAPHITES. 497 

stomach; also a crampy, colicky pain — a real gastralgia, in fact. The 
patient wakes up at night gasping for breath; sudden dyspnoea, which 
is temporarily relieved by eating. The gastralgia is also relieved by 
eating. In this respect it again resembles Petroleum, Chelidonium and 
Anacardiwn, all of which have a similar modality. The abdomen is 
greatly distended from flatulence, and with this distended abdomen we 
have rush of blood to the head. The liver is apt to be hard and en- 
larged, with extreme tenderness to the pressure of the clothing after 
eating. The bowels are usually constipated. The characteristic stool 
is covered with mucus or contains shreds of mucus. That is a very 
characteristic symptom of Graphites, and of Cascarilla also. The 
patient suffers from haemorrhoids, which burn and sting; the anus is 
so extremely sore that the patient is very much annoyed when sitting. 
Fissures form in the anus. Graphites is here one of our best remedies. 

Now we have several similar remedies here. First, Lycopodium. 
This has distension after eating, with great accumulation of flatus, 
but the flatus is not rancid or putrid, as it is under Graphites. That is 
a sufficient distinction between the two remedies. 

Again, we have this list of remedies: Ratanhia, Pcsonia, Nitric acid 
and Silicea. Ratanhia is an excellent remedy for fissure of the anus, 
and is to be recommended when there is great constriction of that 
orifice. Stools are forced out with great effort and the anus aches and 
burns for hours afterward. 

Pcsonia is also useful for fissures of the anus with a great deal of ooz- 
ing, thus keeping the anus damp and disagreeable all the time. This 
is associated with great soreness and smarting, and enormous haemor- 
rhoids. 

Nitric acid is also a remedy for fissure of the anus, particularly when 
there is a feeling as if there were splinters or sticks pricking the anus. 

Now Graphites is distinguished from all these by the fact that they 
have more or less tenesmus or constriction of the anus, while Gi'aphites 
has little or none. 

Silicea is also a remedy for fissure of the anus. The patient tries to 
force a stool, but it partly decends and then slips back again. 

Now the mucous membranes: Graphites is useful in nasal catarrh 
when there is an extreme dryness of the nose. You often find this in 
scrofulous cases. This alternates with the discharge of lumps, or 
clinkers, as they are sometimes called. At other times, the discharge 
is very offensive and bloody. You notice how the offensive character 
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49$ A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

of the discharge shows itself in these carbons. The borders of the 
nostrils are sore and scabby, and crack readily. Here you have a re- 
semblance to Antimonium crudum, to Calcarea and to Arum triphyllum . 
The sense of smell is too acute. The patient cannot bear the odor of 
flowers. There is a cracking or roaring in the ears when swallowing 
or chewing. This tells you that there is catarrh of the Eustachian 
tubes. On examining the ear with the speculum, you will find the 
membrana tympani not perforated, but quite white. The ears are apt to 
be dry, and there is a lack of natural secretion (just as you found 
under Carbo veg.) } with hardness of hearing, better from riding in a 
carriage. It is not the riding that improves the hearing but the noise 
made by the carriage. 

Graphites may also be used in chronic sore throat with sensation as 
of a lump in the throat. This is worse after empty swallowing. Here 
it is similar to Sulphur and Calcarea ostrearum. 

The cough of Graphites is not very characteristic. It is a dry cough 
with a great deal of strangling, making the face red and the eyes water. 
It is worse during deep inspiration. 

On the male genital organs. Graphites acts quite prominently. We 
find it producing uncontrollable sexual excitement and violent erec- 
tions. The most important symptom of Graphites is impotence. 
There is a want of sensation during coition with no discharge or 
semen. 

It also acts on the female organs. We find affections of the left 
ovary with enlargement of that gland, and with scanty delayed menses, 
chilliness, constipation and coexistent eruptions. The uterus is dis- 
placed under Graphites. The os is far back and presses against the 
posterior wall of the vagina, hence the remedy is. indicated in anteflexion 
and in anteversion. With this, there is bearing down extending into 
the hypogastrium. The leucorrhcea is watery and profuse, sometimes 
coming in gushes. Often, with these symptoms, there exists an ecze- 
matous eruption about the vulva. 

Petroleum. 

This is a highly carbonaceous oil, but it is not pure carbon. Medi- 
cinally, it stands somewhat between Sulphur and Phosphorus on one 
hand, and Graphites and Carbo veg. on the other. We find that those 
who work in coal-oil are subject to eruptions on the skin. Thus a 
wheal appears across the face or body looking like a hive, and this 



PETROLEUM. 499 

itches and burns. Then, again, a vesicular eruption appears there 
which develops into a perfect picture of eczema, forming thick scabs 
and oozing pus. The skin soon grows more harsh and dry, and there 
form deep cracks and fissures which bleed and suppurate. These 
symptoms make Petroleum an excellent remedy for eczema wherever 
it may appear. We find it useful in rhagades, particularly when they 
occur in winter, when the hands chap, crack and burn and itch intol- 
erably. Sometimes ulcers develop. 

Again, Petroleum has been used in sprains of joints, especially in 
old rheumatic patients. It is particularly indicated in rheumatism, 
when the knees are stiff, this stiffness being associated with sharp 
sticking pains in them and with stiffness of the neck and cracking 
sounds when moving the head, owing to roughness of the muscular 
fibres. 

Next we find Petroleum to be remembered in diseases of the mucous 
membranes. It may be used successfully in ozaena. Here the dis- 
charge is quite in agreement with the character of the eruption. 
Scabs and purulent mucus are discharged from the nasal cavities. 
The nose is sore and the nostrils are cracked as in Graphites. The 
post-nasal space is filled with purulent mucus, causing much hawking. 

Then, too, we find the eyes affected under Petroleum. It is espe- 
cially useful in blepharitis marginalis. It is also indicated in inflam- 
mation of the lachrymal canal, when suppuration has commenced and 
a fistula has formed. This tendency to the formation of fistula is also 
seen in the gums, anus, etc. It is a general characteristic. 

The cough of Petroleum is also to be remembered. It is a dry teasing 
cough which comes on when lying down at night. We often find that 
cough in children with a diarrhoea which, however, appears only dur- 
ing the day. 

Next we find Petroleum affecting the sweat itself, producing profuse 
offensive sweat in the axilla and on the soles of the feet. 

The only important chest symptom of Petroleum is cold feeling about 
the heart. This symptom is strong under Natrum mur. , which has it 
very well marked, especially when exerting the mind. It is also 
found under Kali chloricum, Graphites, Kali nitricum, Carbo animalis 
and Kali bichromicum. 

Next we study Petroleum in its action on the stomach and bowels. 
It produces nausea and vertigo with vomiting of bile, worse in the 
morning, worse from riding in a carriage and worse during pregnancy. 
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Petroleum produces a diarrhoea which is somewhat akin to that of 
Sulphur. The stools are offensive and watery, and often contain un- 
digested food. They come early in the morning and are associated 
with emaciation of the body. They differ from Sulphur in coming on 
also during the day. We have another diarrhoea curable by Petroleum, 
and that is a diarrhoea with disordered stomach made worse by the use 
of cabbage, sauer-kraut and cole-slaw. There is offensive stool with 
great flatulence, #nd belching of gas, tasting of cabbage. 

Petroleum also acts as a nervous remedy. We sometimes find it in- 
dicated in typhoid fever, when there is a slight delirium. It also pro- 
duces forgetfulness. The patient loses her way in well-known streets. 
If this symptom has been produced by exposure to great heat, then 
you should give Glonoin. 

Another mental symptom curable by Petroleum is she imagines that 
she is double, or that somebody is lying beside her. This symptom 
has been utilized in this way: a lady in childbed imagined that she 
had had two babies, and she was very much concerned as to how she 
could take care of them both. Petroleum cured her. 

Petroleum has also been used as an antidote to lead poisoning. 



LECTURE XLVIII. 



HALOGENS. 



I 

Halogens. -J 



I Highly irritant to the mucous membranes. 



Spasm of the glottis. 
Pseudo- membranes. 
I Glands, etc. 



Halogens. < 



Bromine. -I 



Phos., Ant. tart. 

Carbo an. 

Aeon., Spong., Hep., Kaol. 

Kali brom. 



>Amon. c. 



Fluorine. 



f Merc, Phos., Sulph., Calc. ostr. | >Sulph. 



Iodine. -{ 



Ars., Calc, Arg. n. 



Spong., Hep., Kaolin. 
[ Ant. tart. 



>Starch. 
>Hepar. 
>Arsen. 



Chlorine. 



To-day we begin the study of the chemical elements termed halo- 
gens; Iodine, Bromine, Fluorine and Chlorine are the elements in this 
group. As a group the halogens may be remembered by this great 
characteristic symptom, they all act upon the larynx and bronchial 
tubes, and in fact upon mucous membranes generally. They are de- 
cidedly irritating to the mucous membranes, producing violent inflam- 
mation, rawness and excoriation, as anybody can testify who has once 
inhaled the fumes of Chlorine, Iodine or Bromine. They all produce 
spasms of the glottis and this is most marked in Chlorine, although 
they all have it. They all tend to produce pseudo-membranous forma- 
tions on the mucous membranes. All excepting Chlorine tend to pro- 
duce croupous membranes; Chlorine tends more to diphtheritic than 
pure croupous membrane. All of the halogens act upon the glandu- 
lar system, producing enlargement, induration and even abscess in 



502 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

glands. Thus we find them all useful in scrofulosis, especially Iodine, 
which leads the list. Cyanogen also belongs to this group chemically, 
although it is properly considered as belonging to organic chemistry. 
It has many similarities to these drugs, and, like Chlorine, is useful in 
diphtheritic deposits. Thus we use Hydrocyanic acid and Amygdala 
Per ska (which contains Hydrocyanic acid) for diphtheritic so re- throat, 
and we may use the Cyanide of Mercury, for some of the worst forms of 
diphtheria. The same is true to a less degree of Cyanide of Potassium. 
These general characteristics of the halogens lead you at times to say: 
"This patient needs one of the halogens, which shall it be?" To 
answer that question we must study these four elements separately 
and by comparison. 

Bromine. 

I will first call your attention to Bromine. Bromine produces a 
rather peculiar effect on the sensorium, causing a sort of vertigo, 
which is worse from running water. Anything moving rapidly pro- 
duces this vertigo. It is associated with a peculiar anxious state of 
mind. Now this anxiety belongs to all of the halogens. It hardly 
originates in the mind, probably coming from some defect in the body, 
itself. It is a common symptom in heart and lung affections, and it is 
probably thence that the symptom springs. This anxiety is expressed 
in this way: the patient expects to see objects jumping about or he 
feels as if on turning his head he must see something or some one. 
This is an effect of Bromi?ie, and those of you who are familiar with 
Bromide of Potassium will recognize whence it gets its anxiety. The 
vertigo is relieved by nose-bleed, showing at once that it is congestive 
in character. Another symptom indicative of congestion under Bro- 
mine is this: after dinner there is sensation deep in the brain as 
though a fit of apoplexy were impending. The patient feels as if he 
would lose his senses. 

The Iodine mental condition is more marked than that of Bromine. 
It is a decided erethism, during which the patient is very excitable and 
restless, moving about from place to place, now sitting here, now sit- 
ting there; he fears that every little occurrence will end seriously. In 
his anxiety he shuns every one, even his doctor. He has a great 
dread of people. At times he becomes quite excited and delirious, with 
vertigo, red face and anxiety. In children with tabes mesenterica 
here is a characteristic irritability, screaming when looked at. 



HALOGENS. 503 

Next, the lymphatic system. Like all the other members of this 
group, Bromine attacks the glands and causes enlargement and indu- 
ration of the glands. Hence it is called for in scrofulosis. It is par- 
ticularly suited to scrofulous patients, children usualh 7 , when the 
parotid gland or glands are indurated, when there is a tendency to 
suppuration, with excoriating discharge, persistent hardness of the 
gland around the opening, and undue amount of warmth or heat in 
the gland. I have merely mentioned the parotid gland for purpose of 
illustration. Bromine also affects the mammary gland, for cancer of 
which it has been a very useful remedy. You may perhaps remember 
that I told you the other day that it was similar to Carbo animalis. 
Like Carbo animalis, it has induration of the glands in the axilla with 
burning pains. But ' Bromhie also has cutting pains. The breast is 
hard and on palpation, a dull subdued sort of throbbing may be felt in 
it. Sometimes the drawing or cutting is so marked that it feels as if 
a string were pulling from the gland into the axilla, a symptom more 
often calling for Croton tiglium or Paris quad. 

The testicles are acted upon by Bromine. We find them swollen, 
hard and perfectly smooth and unduly hot. The pain is worse from 
jarring. You will find that glandular affections yield to Bromine, 
especially in persons of light complexion, with fair skin and light blue 
eyes. I mention this symptom here to make use of it in a few 
moments as a symptom of comparative value. I do not mean to say 
that every scrofulous child with blue eyes must have Bromine, but I 
do mean that this symptom is of use to enable us to distinguish 
Bromine from the other halogens. 

The tonsils, too, are affected in Bromine. Thus we find them deep 
red and swollen and covered with a network of dilated bloodvessels. 
They are worse when swallowing, and are accompanied usually with 
swelling of the glands externally. There is a feeling of rawness in 
the throat with this tonsillitis. This, too, as you know, is common 
enough in scrofulous children. Many have a strong temptation to ex- 
cise the tonsils, but this is not good practice, for you can often cure 
this trouble by internal medication. In some cases, this enlargement 
of the tonsils may be looked upon as a forerunner of tuberculosis. 

We find Bromine indicated in enlargement of another gland, namely 
the thyroid gland, and curing what has been termed bronchocele or 
goitre. 

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504 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

membranes. Beginning with the nose, we find that it is useful in coryza 
or in nasal catarrh, when the discharge is profuse, watery and excori- 
ating. The nostrils, alternately, seem to be stopped up. There is 
peculiar headache associated with this coryza, a heavy pressure in the 
forehead which seems to be pushing the brain down and out at the 
root of the nose. The nose is very sore inside and also around the 
alae. This is a smarting soreness, just such as you would expect the 
fumes of Bromine to cause. Later, ulcers form in the nose, with the 
escape of crusts or scabs, which are blown out and which are always 
blood} 7 . Every attempt to blow the nose is followed by a discharge of 
crusts and blood. This you know is common enough with scrofulous 
children. 

Coming now to the throat and lungs, we find Bromine indicated in 
spasm of the glottis, sometimes called laryngismus stridulus. This is 
a very difficult disease to cure. It is often central in its origin. It 
commences by sudden closure of the glottis. The child turns blue in 
the face, and its body becomes convulsed. One spell ceases only to be 
followed by another. In the second stage, general convulsions appear, 
followed by emaciation. The trouble may be reflex from dentition, or 
from indigestion, or from enlargement of the thymus gland. If it 
can be found to be the result of enlargement of the thymus gland, then^ 
Iodine is clearly indicated. When it has been caused by retarded 
dentition, I think that Calcarea phosphorica promises better than any- 
thing else. Dr. Dunham records a case that had been given up by an 
allopathic physician, but, knowing the symptoms of Chlorine, which, 
above all other remedies, will produce this spasm of the glottis, he 
generated some Chlorine, and allowed the child to inhale the fumes, 
with almost instantaneous relief and final cure. All the halogens are 
useful in this condition, but Chlorine is here the best of them all. Their 
symptoms differ but little so far as the local symptoms are concerned. 
We may also think of Sambucus, Antimonium tartaricum, Belladonna, 
Lachesis, Arsenicum and, in some cases, Phosphorus. 

Lachesis is particularly indicated when the patient awakens from 
sleep with it. 

Ignatia, whenever a cross word or correcting the child brings on the 
spasm. 

Another remedy is Cuprum, especially when the spasms are general 
and the child clenches its thumbs. 

Ipecacuanha may be of some use in some cases, but I have no con- 
fidence in it. 






HALOGENS. 505 

Nor have I in Sambucus, because, under Sambucus, I think the 
trouble is more in the chest, whereas, with Cuprum, the halogens, Cal- 
carea phos., Lachesis and Belladonna, the trouble is in the larynx 
itself. 

This spasm of the glottis often comes in the course of croup, in 
which disease Bromine may be the remedy when inspiration seems to 
be exceedingly difficult; the child is suddenly aroused from sleep as if 
choking. These symptoms are relieved by a drink of water, which 
seems to quiet the spasmodic condition. In membranous croup Bromine 
is indicated by the following symptoms in addition to the spasm already 
referred to: the child has at first a deep, rough voice, which, in the 
evening, amounts almost to aphonia. It cries with a hoarse, husky 
voice. The membrane seems to come up from the larynx into the 
throat. Every inspiration provokes cough, especially every deep in- 
spiration. Breathing is hoarse, rasping and whistling, as though the 
child were breathing through a sponge or through some loose metallic 
substance which is vibrating. This is caused by the vibration of 
membrane as it is deposited more or less uniformly over the interior of 
the larynx. Later, there is rattling in the larynx. When the child 
coughs it seems as if the larynx were full of the loose rnucus. 

Antimonium tartaricum is very similar to Bromine in croup. It has 
rattling and wheezing, extending down the trachea as well as in the 
larynx. 

Now, I wish to say a few words about other remedies in connection 
with croup, especially concerning Aconite, Hepar, Spongia and Kaolin. 
Kaolin is a kind of porcelain-clay, a combination of lime and silica, and 
has proved very useful in membranous croup. The relation which 
these remedies hold is this: Aconite is useful in the beginning of croup, 
whether spasmodic, catarrhal or membranous. It is indicated by the 
child suddenly arousing from sleep as if it were smothering. There is 
great restlessness. The skin is hot. There must be some anxiety present. 
Breathing is dry. There is no sound of mucus. Soon the child seems 
better and falls asleep, only to be aroused again. Arnica is especial^ 
indicated in these cases if the symptoms have followed exposure to 
drjr, cold winds. Do not stop your remedy too soon. If you do, 
while the child will be better in the morning, the symptoms may 
return with renewed violence the next night, and, before you know it, 
the mucous membrane of the larynx and trachea will take on fibrinous 
exudation and 3^ou lose your patient. 



506 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

You will need to change to Spongia when you have these symptoms 
present: breathing during inspiration is hard. and harsh, as though the 
child was breathing through a sponge. The cough has a decidedly 
hard, barking, ringing sound. As yet the sputum is scanty. Spongia 
follows Aconite, especially after exposure to dry, cold winds, and in 
light-complexioned children with blue eyes. The symptoms are 
usually worse before midnight. Suppose this fails you, then you may 
have recourse to Hepar sulpharis calcarea. 

Hepar usually is worse after midnight and towards morning. The 
cough has the same harsh, croupy sound, but there is a great deal of 
moisture with it. This is the indication for Hepar. It, too, is worse 
from exposure to dry, cold winds. Sometimes all these drugs fail, 
and we have to resort to the halogens, especially to Bromine and Iodine. 

I have already given you the symptoms of Bromine; let me tell you 
how to distinguish it from Iodine. Iodine is particularly indicated after 
the failure of Hepar, when the membrane has formed; inspiration is 
exceedingly difficult, both from spasms of the throat and occlusion of 
the lumen of the larynx by the membranous formation. Inspiration 
is wave-like or in jerks. The cough is moist but harsh, just as you 
found under Hepar. The voice is almost extinct from the hoarseness. 
The child grasps its throat to relieve the pressure, throws its head far 
back so as to straighten the route from the mouth to the lungs and 
favor the passage of air. It is particularly worse in the morning. Iodine 
is especially adapted to dark-complexioned children with dark hair 
and eyes. This in itself is a great distinction between Iodine and 
Bromine. That is why I spoke of the use of Bromine in light-com- 
plexioned children, because this fact has been proven to be a good dis- 
tinction between these two drugs, and hence, as a comparative symp- 
tom, is one of great value to you. Iodine is particularly adapted to 
cases that come from damp weather. Long- continued damp cold 
weather will produce just such a cough as Iodi?ie will cure. Do not 
change the remedy in these cases too often. Do not change your 
remedy on account of alarming symptoms that spring up, unless you 
are certain that they indicate a cha?ige. 

Kaolin has been used successfully for membranous croup even when 
the membrane dips down deep into the trachea. There is extreme 
soreness of the chest. The patient does not want anything to touch 
him. He will not permit you to use steam or hot cloths, because the 
chest is so sore. 






HALOGKNS. 507 

Returning to the study of Bromine, we find it useful in affections of 
the lungs. It is indicated in asthma, when the patient feels as if he 
could not get air enough into his lungs, consequently he breathes very 
deeply. The explanation of this lies not only in the lungs, but also in 
the constriction of the glottis. Although the patient expands his chest 
well, air does not go in on account of the narrowness of the opening 
in the larynx. It is especially indicated in asthma coming on, at or 
near the seashore. 

We also find Bromine useful in pneumonia, particularly when it 
affects the lower lobe of the right lung, hence lobar pneumonia. We 
often find nose-bleed as a concomitant symptom when Bromine is indi- 
cated in these cases. The patient also has the symptom just mentioned 
under asthma, "seems as if he could not get enough air into the 
chest; " while there seems to be plenty of mucus, the patient does not 
appear to be able to expectorate it. 

We also find Bromine indicated in tuberculosis of the lungs, par- 
ticularly when the tubercular deposit is more manifest in the right 
lung. The patient suffers frequently from congestion of the head and 
chest, which is relieved by nose-bleed. Notice how often that symp- 
tom occurs under Bro?ni?ie. There is also pain in the mammary 
region going up into the axilla. The eyes seem to be affected along 
with the chest symptoms giving rise to a chronic conjunctivitis. 

Bromine produces a very characteristic picture of uncomplicated 
hypertrophy of the heart, by which I mean, muscular enlargement 
without valvular lesion. The patient finds it difficult to exert him- 
self on account of the oppression about the heart. He has palpitation 
when he begins to move and when he gets up from a sitting to a stand- 
ing posture. The pulse is full, hard and rather slow, which is just 
the character that belongs to an over-active enlarged heart. It has 
cured many cases of this hypertrophy of the heart. I think it was 
Dr. Thayer, of Boston, who cured many cases of this trouble with 
Bromine. It may also be used in cardiac asthma, especially when the 
asthmatic paroxysms are better at sea than on land.* 

You here find Bromine similar to Aconite, but it lacks the anxiety of 
that remedy. Both remedies are suited to uncomplicated cardiac 

* Professor Farrington refers above to the asthma of Bromine as coming on at 
or near the seashore, and here he speaks of cardiac asthma better on sea than on 
land. Both may be right, for being at sea differs from being at the seashore* 
where you may have land breezes. — S. 1^. 



508 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

hypertrophy, but Aconite has fear and anxiety. The patient fears that 
he will drop dead in the street. 

It is also similar to Aconite and Rhus tox., both of which remedies 
have uncomplicated hypertrophy of the heart from over-exertion. 

Iodine. 

So much for Bromine; now for Iodine; and first let me speak of the 
symptoms arising from its abuse. Iodine is an absorbent; it has the 
property of causing absorption, particularly of glandular structures- 
Its absorbent properties extend to other tissues, involving, finally, 
even nervous structures. We find, for instance, in persons who are 
poisoned with Iodine, great emaciation. With the female, the mam- 
mary glands become atrophied and the ovaries, too, no doubt. With 
the males, the testicles surfer in the same manner and there is the in- 
evitable progressive loss of sexual power. The skin becomes dark 
yellow and tawny, dry from deficient action, the sclerotica become 
yellow, yellow spots appear on the face and also on the body. There 
is excessive appetite, he is anxious and faint if he does not get his 
food. He is relieved while eating and yet he emaciates despite the 
amount of food he eats. Sooner or later the nervous system becomes 
involved and he is afflicted with tremor. He becomes nervous and ex- 
citable; every little annoyance, which would be unnoticed in his 
normal condition, causes trembling. He has a longing for the open 
air, as if the cold fresh air gave him more health. This gives a fair 
idea of the condition to which the patient is reduced by the over use of 
Iodine. One of the best antidotes to £his state is Hepar. Some cases 
require Sulphur. The individual symptoms decide. 

Now compare Iodine with Bromine in chest affections. Iodine is indi- 
cated in pneumonia, more so, perhaps, than Bromine. It is especially 
useful when the disease localizes itself, that is, when the plastic exuda- 
tion* commences. There is a decided cough with great dyspnoea, 
difficulty in breathing, as though the chest would not expand (and 
here the trouble is situated in the chest itself) , and blood-streaked 
sputum. You will find some portions of the lungs beginning to 
solidify. You may also give it later in the disease, after the stage of 
hepatization, in the stage of resolution, when instead of absorption 

*Under Mercurius and Iodine, exudates are plastic; Bryonia, serous and plastic; 
Hepar, purulent. 



HALOGENS. 509 

and expectoration of the exudate, slow suppuration appears with hectic 
fever and emaciation; the patient feels better in the cool open air than 
he does in the warm room. 

Phthisis pulmonalis sometimes calls for Iodine. You here find it 
indicated in young persons who grow too rapidly, who are subject to 
frequent congestion of the chest, who are rather emaciated, and who 
suffer from dry cough, which seems to be excited by tickling all over 
the chest. The patient cannot bear the warm room. Expectoration 
is tough and blood-streaked. There is a well-marked feeling of weak- 
ness in the chest, particularly on going up stairs, The patient has a 
very good appetite, and is relieved by eating. 

The nearest remedy to Iodine here is Phosphorus, which is also well 
adapted to phthisis in the rapidly-growing young. 

Iodi?ie is also indicated in enlargement of the heart, whether or not 
accompanied by disease of the valvular structures. There is palpitation 
of the heart, particularly after any manual labor. It is suited espe- 
cially to dark-complexioned persons, with dark hair, etc. The heart 
feels as if it were being squeezed by a firm hand. At other times there 
is excessive weakness in the chest, with ' ' goneness ' ' or exhausted 
feeling. The patient can scarcely talk or breathe, so weak does he 
feel. This shows that Iodine acts on the connective tissue. In 
valvular affections there is a feeling of vibrat'ion over the heart, just 
such a sensation as you get when stroking a purring cat. 

Spigelia has that same purring, vibrating feeling over the region of 
the heart. 

Now let me give 5^ou the difference between Iodi?ie and Bromine in 
scrofulous affections. Iodine causes induration of the glands more 
marked than does Bromine. They are hard, large and usually painless. 
There is a characteristic of Iodine which is universal, and that charac- 
teristic is torpidity and sluggishness. The very indolence of the dis- 
ease is suggestive of Iodine. It also produces atrophy of the glands. 
The mammae waste away and the testicles dwindle. We find it indi- 
cated in scrofulosis of children, when they emaciate rapidly, despite a 
ravenous appetite. They are hungry all the time. They cry for their 
dinner, they feel better while eating, and yet they do not gain any 
flesh. They are always better in the open air and worse from any con- 
finement in the warm room. The mesenteric glands are enlarged, and 
you have what is known as tabes mesenterica. This indicates Iodine, 
particularly when you have these other symptoms present together 
with excessive mental irritability. 



5IO A CLINIC AL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

We find Iodine causing a rather singular diarrhoea. In such cases 
the spleen is enlarged, quite hard, and very sensitive to the touch. 
The liver, too, must be affected, because the stools are whitish; some- 
times they are wheylike. This last symptom you will often find con- 
nected with obscure disease of the pancreas. Iodine has such an affinity 
for glandular structures, that it, no doubt, attacks the pancreas as well 
as other glands. 

We also find Iodine affecting the ovaries. It is indicated in ovarian 
dropsy. In such cases as this, the single fact that Iodine has helped 
in ovarian dropsy must not lead you to give Iodine in every case of 
that trouble. Other remedies have proved themselves useful. Apis, 
Colocynth, and other drugs, have cured cases, and they have sometimes 
failed. If the whole picture of the patient calls for Iodine, it is your 
duty to give that drug, but not unless such is the case. It must be 
given for weeks or months before it will bring about absorption of the 
tumor. 

We also find Iodine indicated in cancer of the uterus, particularly 
with profuse haemorrhages. The leucorrhoea is characteristic, being 
yellowish and very corrosive. This, in conjunction with the other 
Iodine symptoms, sallow, tawny skin, ravenous appetite, etc., makes 
Iodine the remedy which will relieve many cases and cure some. 

In this connection we have other remedies to remember, and notably 
among these, Hydrastis, which has cured epithelioma, and may be a 
remedy for uterine cancer. I have, however, had no personal success 
with it. It has been used both externally and internally, when indi- 
cated by symptoms which have already been given you in another 
lecture; especially has it marked goneness at the epigastrium, and pal- 
pitation after every motion. 

There is a substance, or remedy, known as Lapis albus. It is one of 
Grauvogl's remedies. He, at one time, went to a certain spring, the 
waters of which, it was claimed, would cure tuberculosis, scrofulosis, 
and even cancer. On examining the spring, he noticed that the water 
had gradually worn a crevice in the rocks. He took away a piece of 
this rock over which the water was falling, and made triturations of it. 
With this he cured several cases of goitre, and also several cases of 
scirrhus. This rock has been analyzed, but the analyses differ so that 
I hardly know which one to recommend. 

Iodine is sometimes indicated in rheumatic joint affections, with effu- 
sion and emaciation. Hydrarthrosis yields, according to Jahr, Jousset 



HAIX>GKNS. 511 

and others, to Iodine. In acute cases, compare Apis; in the chronic, 
Sulphur. 

Both Iodine and Bromine are of some use in ulcers. Iodine, for in- 
stance, is useful in ulcers rather of a scrofulous form, with spongy 
edges, and discharges of a bloody, ichorous, or even purulent character. 

Now, Bromine is somewhat similar. It is useful in ulcers which 
have a carrion-like odor, with threatening gangrene. The surround- 
ing skin has a greenish-yellow hue. That is the form of ulcer to 
which Bromine is especially adapted. 

Now, a few words about Chlorine. I do not know much about it as 
a medicine. It may be given in a crude form by allowing the gas to 
be absorbed by ice-cold water, and thus it may be prepared for the 
cases to be enumerated. Chlorine, and in fact all its combinations, seem 
to have a special affinity for mucous membranes. Hence we find it 
indicated in catarrhs. Chlorine produces a watery discharge from the 
nose, with a thin, excoriating coryza, making the nose sore, both in- 
side and about the alse. On examining the mouth, you find it, too, 
affected with a low grade of inflammation. Chlorine here produces 
small, putrid-smelling ulcers, yellowish- white, which are aphthous 
in character. 

Chlorine is indicated in scorbutic states of the blood, as are all the 
chlorides. We find under Natrum ??iur. and Kali chloricum the same 
kind of stomacace, with excessive foetor of the breath. 

We find Chlorine also acting on the nervous system, probably 
through the blood. It is indicated in typhoid conditions; the patient 
has a fear of becoming crazy, or that he will lose his senses. He is 
very forgetful; he cannot remember names, etc. There is a constant 
fear of some impending disease. There is also, under Chlorine, a 
peculiar painful sensation in the vertex, passing down the left side of 
the body. This is a precursor of typhoid fever. It is worse after eat- 
ing. In such cases Chlorine will often modify the fever. 

Chlorine is also indicated in impotence, but when this impotence has 
been produced by inhalations of the fumes of Chlorine, Lycopodium is 
the proper antidote. 

Chlorine is a very good antidote to Sulphuretted hydrogen. 



512 a clinical materia medica. 

Spongia. 

{ Aeon., Bell., Hep., Iod., Brom. 
Spongia. J Anacardium. 

I Caust., Selen., Phos. 
^ Badiaga. 

Spo?zgia is not a chemical substance. It is derived from the animal 
kingdom, but, because its symptoms are closely allied to those of the 
halogens, it is convenient to study the drug here. Spongia contains 
Iodine, also some Bromine and some calcareous matter, and probably 
other ingredients of minor importance. It differs from Iodine. In 
the first place, it is adapted to light-complexioned persons, and it has 
not the same property of producing plastic or fibrous exudates that 
Iodine has. It acts, however, on structures very similar to those in- 
fluenced by the halogens, especially the glandular system and mucous 
surfaces. We find it of service in tuberculosis, and we shall find it in- 
valuable in the treatment of heart disease. 

First, let us study its action on the glands. It is indicated just as 
are the halogens in indurations and enlargement of the glands. Thus 
we find it indicated in goitre. The swelling is hard and large, one or 
both sides are swollen, sometimes even with the chin, and particularly 
is this associated with suffocating spells at night. This suffocation 
does not come alone from the size of the goitre, because some very 
small goitres give rise to this symptom in a very great degree. I 
would also call your attention to the fact that goitres will vary in size 
at different times. They will be larger at one time than another. It 
is said that they increase and decrease with the moon. It has, there- 
fore, been suggested that you give Spongia, or whatever drug you 
select, with the waning moon. In this way you hurry its decline. 

Spongia acts on the testicles just as powerfully as the halogens, pro- 
ducing hardness and swelling of these glands. It is particularly useful 
in cases of maltreated orchitis or inflammation of the testicle after 
checked gonorrhoea. There is a peculiar sort of squeezing pain in 
the testicle and cord, worse on any motion of the body or clothing. 

In cases of orchitis, our first remedy is not Spongia. Pulsatilla 
stands at the head of the list, and next to it we may rank Hamamelis, 
or witch-hazel. The latter drug should be used both locally and in- 
ternally. It relieves the intense soreness and enables the patient to 



SPONGIA. 513 

attend to his duties. Still another remedy is Mercurius solubilis , par- 
ticularly when what little gonorrhceal discharge is present is yellowish- 
green. 

Another remedy in the very beginning is Gelsemium. 

When, however, you have this peculiar screwing-like, squeezing 
pain in the cord and testicles, with hardness there, Spo?igia comes in 
as one of our best drugs. 

We find Spongia indicated in acute larjmgitis. This is an alarming 
disease. It is indicated after Aconite, when there are harsh, barking 
cough and suffocative spells during sleep, arousing the patient. The 
larynx is extremely sensitive to the touch. Do not give Lachesis in 
these cases, for the sensitiveness is not due to hyperesthesia of the 
cutaneous nerves, but it is the result of the inflamed condition of the 
laryngeal cartilages. Simply turning the head will bring on a suffo- 
cative spell. 

Now there is another remedy that I would have you remember in 
this connection, and that is Sambucus. This is useful when these 
spasms of the larynx occur frequently during the course of acute 
laryngitis. 

The same symptoms that suggest Spongia in laryngitis also indicate 
it in laryngeal phthisis. 

I will not speak of the application of Spongia to croup, because I 
gave that to you in the early part of this lecture when speaking of 
Bromine and Iodine. 

We come next to the lungs. We find Spongia indicated in true 
tuberculosis of the lungs. It is especially called for in the beginning 
of the stage of solidification of the lung tissue. You find the apices 
of one or both lungs dull on percussion. The cough is of a hard, 
ringing, metallic character. It is excited by deep breathing or by 
talking, by any little excitement, or by dry, cold winds, seldom by 
damp weather. It is relieved for awhile by eating or drinking. Ana- 
cardium also has this same symptom, eating relieves the cough. There 
is a great deal of congestion of the chest, especially when the patient 
is moving about, walking in the street for instance. This is accom- 
panied by sudden weakness as if the patient would fall. In such cases 
Spongia has cured when given early. 

Spongia is followed well by Hepar when the same kind of cough 
continues, but with rather more rattling from the production of mucus, 
whether blood-streaked or not. The symptoms are worse towards 
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514 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

morning, while with. Spongia they are worse before midnight. You 
find, too, that the Spongia patient is subject to frequent flashes of heat 
in these phthisical cases, and these return whenever he thinks about 
them. He also experiences a chill which usually commences across 
the back. He shakes even when near a warm stove. The heat which 
follows is all over the body except the thighs, which remain numb and 
chilly. 

Spongia is useful in organic affections of the heart. The patient 
cannot lie flat on the back with the head low without bringing on a 
spell of suffocation. He is frequently aroused from sleep as if smoth- 
ering. He sits up in bed with an anxious look, flushed face, and 
rapid, hard breathing. 

You will find a loud blowing sound over one or the other valve. 
Spongia is particularly indicated after Aconite. Here there is the same 
arousing from sleep with great distress, the face is red and there is 
probably great congestion of the chest. Aco?iite suits only the hy- 
peremia that precedes endocarditis. Spongia comes in when exudation 
has commenced and the mischief has been already done. While it 
does not remove the deposit, it prevents the disease from advancing. 
In treating heart cases do not begin too soon with Lachesis, Hydro- 
cyanic acid or Arsenicum. Begin rather with Aconite, Spongia, Spigelia, 
Bryonia of Phosphorus. Aj r se?iic and such remedies come in later. If 
you give them too soon you weaken the patient. Unless you have a 
complete picture for the remedy, do not give in the first stages one 
usually indicated in the last stages of a disease. 



LECTURE XLIX. 

THE ACIDS. 

Fluoric acid. Phosphoric acid. • 

Muriatic " ' Hydrocyanic " 

Nitric " ' Picric " 

Sulphuric " ' Lactic 

Oxalic " Malic 

Citric " Silicic 

Arsenious acid. . 

There are many of the acids, many more in fact than have been 
placed on the board. There are not many of them, however, with 
which we are thoroughly acquainted, and there are but few facts that 
need be stated with reference to others. The very idea of acid, you 
will at once understand, implies more or less of an electro-negative 
character. They all combine very readily with the electro-positive 
substances, as potassium and sodium. You must rid yourself of the 
impression that the term ' ' acid ' ' necessarily implies that these sub- 
stances are sour, for all acids are not sour nor do all acids redden 
litmus paper. It was formerly supposed that all acids contained oxy- 
gen, and that oxygen was one of their necessary ingredients. This 
has been disproved, for certain acids — as hydrofluoric and muriatic 
acids — contain no oxygen. These acids are derived from the mineral 
and vegetable kingdoms. Of those derived from the former, we use 
in medicine Fluoric and Muriatic acids, which are obtained from the 
halogens; Nitric acid, a combination of nitrogen and oxygen; Sulphuric 
acid, Phosphoric acid, Silicea or Silicic acid, which exists as sand in 
nature and is by no means sour. So, too, the substance which we term 
Arsenicum is an acid — Arsenious acid. 

From organic chemistry Hydrocyanic acid, sometimes called Prussic 
acid. That, we shall find, exists in a great variety of plants. Then 
here is Oxalic acid, with which you are already somewhat familiar. 
Many of you who have tasted the ' ' sorrel grass ' ' know how sour 
the leaves are. It is Oxalic acid which gives them their acidity. It 
exists also in the rhubarb. Rhubarb, either the medicinal or the edible 



516 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

variety, may or may not be poisonous. When raised on new ground 
it is very apt to contain an undue amount of Oxalic acid, and thus may 
make some persons very sick. Malic and Citric acid are derived from 
the vegetable kingdom. Malic acid is found more particularly in ap- 
ples and pears and also in raspberries. Citric acid is found chiefly in 
oranges and lemons. Acetic acid is an organic acid, and is the principal 
ingredient of vinegar. Lactic acid is derived from sour milk. 

In the first place we may say a few words about the acids in general 
and tell what characterizes them as a class. It has been determined 
by careful experimentation with the acids as a class that they decrease 
the acid secretions of the body and increase the alkaline. If, for in- 
stance, a quantity of acid, such as Citric acid, is taken into the stomach, 
it will diminish the secretion of the gastric juice. On the other hand, 
it will increase the secretion of the saliva. The practical value of this 
hint is hygienic rather than therapeutic, and yet in that degree it is of 
great use. For instance, we know how intolerable, at times, thirst is 
in fevers. Now this thirst may be due, at least in part, to lack of 
secretion from the salivary glands. The mouth is parched and dry; 
the tongue cleaves to the roof of the mouth. In such cases as this, 
acidulated drinks, by acting reflexly, increase the flow of saliva, and 
will give your patient great relief. For instance, you may give 
lemonade, providing, of course, it is not antagonistic to your indicated 
remedy. There are some medicines which Citric acid will antidote 
and some which will disagree with it. Again, if you are giving Bella- 
donna, you would not think of using vinegar, as vinegar retards the 
action of that drug. But when giving Belladonna you may use 
lemonade, as that aids the action of the remedy. Antimonium crudum 
will not tolerate acids, but you may use tamarind water. Now if you 
find the mouth or throat sore in fever, the ' ' edge ' ' must be taken off 
the acid by the admixture of some mucilaginous substance to the 
drink. You might use gum Arabic, but that interferes with digestion 
somewhat. Irish moss, Iceland moss and slippery-elm are too medic- 
inal. They all act powerfully on the lungs, and you might induce 
medicinal symptoms if you employ them. Flaxseed has some medic- 
inal effect, but not sufficient to make its use inappropriate. Another 
substance which may be used is gelatin, that is, if you know that it is 
pure. Some of it is made from the refuse of the tanner; some from 
fish-bones, and this is quite palatable; but best of all is that made from 
calves' feet. This last may be used in water to relieve the sharpness 
of the acid. 



THE ACIDS. 517 

We find that vegetable acids may be useful in dyspepsia, simply for 
their hygienic value. You may give them, for instance, in sour 
stomach. You then administer the acid before eating. Allow the 
patient to drink lemonade before meals and you will often find that 
the usual heartburn and sour risings after eating are thus diminished. 
Pepsin, which is often used as an adjuvant in the treatment of 
dyspepsia, is perfectly allowable, as it does not interfere with the action 
of any medicine and is not itself a medicine. It is often aided in its 
action by some kind of acid, particularly in the digestion of nitroge- 
nous articles of food. 

Vinegar has been used as an antidote for intoxication. 

There is a property of Lactic acid which is well worth noticing. 
This is a very corrosive acid. It will eat into every tissue of the body. 
In fact, it will dissolve the enamel of the teeth, so that great care must 
be used in its administration. When prescribed in material doses, it 
is usually administered through a tube, wmich prevents it from touch- 
ing the teeth. Dr. Hering w r as in the habit of recommending that the 
teeth be w r ashed occasionally with cream that had become sour by 
keeping twenty-four hours. 

Muriatic and Lactic acids favor digestion. Some persons are greatly 
relieved by drinking sour milk. 

Sulphuric acid must be avoided in any form whatever, because it 
tends to make the food insoluble \>y combining with its albuminous 
constituents. Sulphuric acid is not used in dietetics, except by children 
in the cheap candy called "sour-balls," which are acidulated almost 
exclusively with this acid. 

Hydrocyanic acid certainly aids digestion. There are some persons 
who have been cured of dyspepsia by eating peach-kernels, which con- 
tain this acid. 

There is a distinction between the mineral acids on one side and the 
organic acids on the other. The mineral acids, as a class, all produce 
an irritability of fibre together with weakness and prostration. I am 
now speaking of their medicinal effects. You will find them to pro- 
duce an irritable weakness — with the weak and irritable pulse — 
whereas the vegetable acids produce weakness without irritability. 
The acids, too, as a class, check haemorrhages. This is a quality that 
belongs to nearly all of them. We all know that Acetic acid is useful 
in this sphere. When I have a patient who is subject to haemorrhage, 
I am in the habit of instructing the nurse, in case haemorrhage sets in 



518 A CLINICAL MATERIA MBDICA. 

before I can be called, to dip a cloth in vinegar and place it over the 
pubes. In many cases, this will be successful. We all know, too, 
that Citric acid will produce and cure haemorrhage. A child, after 
eating too freely of lemons, had haemorrhages from every orifice of the 
body, even from the conjunctiva. We shall see that Phosphoric, Sul- 
phuric and Arsenious acids all produce and all check haemorrhages. It 
is said that they all do this by reason of their astringency. But how 
can this be so when they act favorably even in the two-hundredth 
potency ? 

Another quality of the acids is their tendency to produce pseudo- 
membranes. Thus we find some of them indicated in diphtheria; 
Muriatic, Phosphoric, Stdphuric and Nitric acids, for instance. Here, 
again, caution is necessary. As these acids, particularly the vege- 
table acids, may cause croupous deposits, do not permit a child con- 
valescing from croup to partake of acid fruits. When the child is 
susceptible, any one of these acids may tend to produce this disease 
again. 

We find that all the acids cause a peculiar debility. This is not a 
simple functional weakness, such as might result from a rather ex- 
hausting diarrhoea, such as you find under Cinchona, or such a func- 
tional weakness of the nerves as will be curable by Zinc, but it is a 
debility which arises from defective nutrition, particularly from blood 
disease. Thus we find them called for in very low types of disease, 
disease in which blood poisoning is a prominent feature, in typhoid 
states and in scarlatina, particularly when of a low type, in conditions 
of exhaustion from abuse of various organs of the body. Thus 
drunkards, who have long been indulging in liquors to excess, may be 
relieved by Sulphuric, Phosphoric and Arsenious acids. 

We find them indicated, too, in diabetes mellitus. The principal 
acids for this condition are Phosphoric and Lactic acids. 

We find, too, that many of the acids are useful in scurvy, particularly 
when it has arisen from a diet of salty food with deprivation of vege- 
tables. So much for our general review of the acids. We will now 
begin to speak of the acids in order, and, first of all. of Fluoric acid. 



THE ACIDS. 519 



Fluoric Acid. 



Silicea, Calcarea ostr. , Calcarea fluor. 
Kali carb. 
Fluoric acid, i Arsenicum, Phosphoric acid. 
Mercurius. 
^Rhus tox. 

This is a highly excoriating acid, eating, as you know, even into 
glass. It is to be particularly remembered by its action on the bones 
and on the skin. It acts especially upon the lower tissues of the body. 
We find it indicated in caries, particularly when the long bones, as the 
femur, humerus and radius are affected. The discharges from the 
affected parts are thin and excoriating. The symptoms are frequently 
relieved by cold applications. Fluoric acid is frequently useful for 
caries of the temporal bones, and especially of the mastoid process, 
and that, too, whether it be the result of syphilis, or of scrofulous 
catarrh of the middle ear. 

We also find it indicated in dental fistulse. The discharge is bloody, 
and has a saltish, disagreeable taste, rendering the mouth foul, and 
gradually undermining the whole constitution. Fluoric acid will here 
relieve. There .is another remedy which has not been thoroughly 
proven, but which seems to act better here than the Fluoric acid, and 
that is the Fluoride of Calcium or Calcarea fluor ica. 

Calcarea fluorica is especially useful for osseous tumors and for en- 
largement of bones with or without caries, Last summer a lady came 
to my office with what the dentist had pronounced to be necrosis of 
the lower jaw on the left side. The teeth had been removed by him, 
but the patient, instead of getting better, grew worse, and there was a 
continual discharge from the cavity. The molar just back of the one 
taken out had been filled with gold, and that I found on examination 
to be rough at its root; and when she pressed her jaws together 
tightly, there would ooze, apparently from its socket, a fluid which 
was offensive, dark and bloody, and mixed with fine pieces of decayed 
bone. The gum around the bone was purple and offensive in itself. 
The dentist had said that a surgical operation was necessary. The 
first remed}^ given was Silicea, which seemed to have some effect. 
This was followed by Fluoric acid. These two remedies are comple- 
mentary, and you will frequently find in the bone disease that you will 



520 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

have to give one after the other. Fluoric acid is especially indicated 
when Silicea has been abused. It is also indicated when Silicea appa- 
rently does some good, but fails to complete the cure. Now, in the 
case I have just related, Fluoric acid also helped for awhile, but im- 
provement again came to a stand-still, and now I noticed a swelling of 
the bone on the outer surface. This led me to think that Calcarea 
fluoriccu would act better, and I gave it in the sixth trituration. That 
she had been taking since the first of August. A week ago* the dis- 
charge had entirely ceased. The tooth, which had been filled with 
gold, was no longer painful. Pink granulations were springing up all 
over the gums. The probe can no longer detect bone which is 
diseased. 

You will remember, as a distinction between Fluoric acid and Silicea 
in bone affections and ulcers, that Fluoric acid has relief from cold, 
whereas Silicea cannot bear anything cold. The slightest draught is 
intolerable. 

We next have to speak of the action of Fluoric acid on the skin. It 
seems to produce a decided roughness and harshness of the skin, de- 
veloping cutaneous eruptions of various kinds. There is itching. I 
do not know of any remedy that causes such general and persistent 
itching as does Fluoric acid. There is itching in small spots here and 
there over the bod}'-. This is worse from warmth and better from a 
cool place. You will find, under Fluoric acid, that old cicatrices will 
become redder than normal and itch. By and by, little vesicles will 
form on or near the cicatrix, thus showing you the affinity of fluoric 
acid for this kind of tissue. I^ittle red blotches appear on the body, 
and you have well-marked tendency to desquamation. No remedy has 
this more marked than Fluoric acid. You will find that Fluoric acid 
also attacks the nails, causing them to grow rapidty. Thuja has the 
effect of making the nails grow soft. 

We may use Fluoric acid in felons, particularly in bone felons. Here, 
as in case of other diseases of the bones, the discharge is offensive. 
Here, also, we may make the same point of distinction between it and 
other remedies, namely, by relief from cold applications. 

Fluoric acid also acts upon the muscles. Here its effects are rather 
novel. It causes an increase in muscular endurance. Under its influ- 
ence a person is able to withstand unusual muscular exertion. More 
than this, he seems to be better able to withstand the heat of summer 
*The lecturer was speaking on October 17th. 



THE ACIDS. 521 

and the cold of winter. Thus the drug has a general invigorating or 
tonic effect. 

This same effect we find under other drugs. We know how Rhus 
tox. will enable persons to withstand muscular fatigue. The same is 
also true of Arsenicum. But the remedy that has this property, more 
than any other I know of, is Coca. This interesting plant is used by 
the people of South America, particularly by those who climb the 
Andes. It prevents all the symptoms arising from the fatigue of the 
journey and from the disproportion between the external and the in- 
ternal atmospheric pressures. We may make use of this in persons 
who are weak, particularly for old people who get out of breath easily 
and particularly if they cannot stand a rarefied atmosphere. In that 
condition Coca relieves. 

Under the influence of Fluoric acid, a short sleep seems to refresh. 
This effect may also be produced by low potencies of Mephitis putorius. 

We find that Fluoric acid has produced, and therefore ought to cure, 
varicose veins. Little blue collections of veins in small spots were 
caused in two or three provers by the drug. It may also be of use 
in naevus. 

Other remedies here are Hamamelis, especially in acute cases. It 
is often used externally and internally in the treatment of enlarged 
veins. 

Muriatic Acid. 



f Debility, typhoid fever. 



Diphtheria. 



Muriatic acid. < „ 

Scarlatina. 

(^ Muscular weakness from Opium. 

f Rhus tox., Bry., Phos., Phos. ac. 

^ r . . . , Apis, Rhus tox., Arsenicum. ( Camphor. 

Muriatic acid. < ~: ' ^ J _ . 

Opium. > < Bryonia. 

[_ Nitr. ac. ( Alkalies. 

Now that we have obtained an idea of the acids in general, we will 
find Muriatic acid a very easy drug to study. The continued use of 
Muriatic acid must give us pathological effects. Now this acid, when 
abused, produces pathogenetic effects, which present two series of symp- 
toms for study. We find its mental and nervous disturbances under 



522 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

two stages or classes. Under the first effects of the drug there is con- 
siderable excitement. The patient is irritable and peevish, and the 
senses are all too acute. Thus light hurts his eyes, distant noises cause 
buzzing or roaring in the ears, or aggravating headache. Both smell 
and taste are abnormally acute. The patient is restless and changes 
his position frequently. His mind is actively engaged in visions in 
reference to the past and present and even to the future. The cheeks 
are quite bright red, the tongue and mouth are apt to be dry, and the 
heart-beat is quick and irritable but lacking in energy and force. If 
he is at all delirious, it is only slightly so. He is sleepy but unable to 
sleep, or he tosses about, dreamy and restless, all through the night. 
Now these are the transient symptoms of excitement or erethism which 
may occur under the influence of Muriatic acid. You are able to trace 
beneath these symptoms, from beginning to end, a certain amount of 
weakness. There is an appearance of over-strength, but it is in a 
weakened constitution. You know that it is not a true ' ' hyperaction, ' ' 
but only an irritability, that comes under the head of irritable weak- 
ness. 

The next stage, or that of exhaustion, has several grades, of course. 
Beginning with the mental S3'mptoms, we find that the patient is apt 
to be sad, and is absorded in self, taciturn, introspective, sad and 
brooding. If you question him you will learn that he is anxious about 
something real or imaginary. Headache may now appear, he feels as 
if the brain were being torn or bruised, or there is heaviness as if the 
occiput were made of lead. The patient becomes unconscious, with 
muttering delirium, sighs and groans during sleep, the tongue grows 
more dry and seems to have actually shrunken and become narrow and 
pointed; so dry is it that when he attempts to talk, it rattles like a 
piece of wash leather in his mouth. Still later, the tongue becomes 
paralyzed, so that he can scarcely move it at all. The heart-beats are 
regular and feeble. The pulse intermits characteristically at every 
third beat. He now becomes so weak that the muscles refuse their 
office. He has diarrhoea, which is watery and is accompanied by 
prolapsus of the rectum. Stool is involuntary when straining to 
urinate. He slides down in bed. He actually 'has not sufficient 
strength to keep his head upon the pillow. Paralysis of the brain is 
now threatening. This is indicated by vacant, staring eyes, dropping 
of the lower jaw, coldness of the extremities, and this, if not checked, 
is followed by death. Now these are the symptoms that call for 
Miuiatic acid, particularly in typhoid fever. 



THE ACIDS. 523 

The concordant remedies of Muriatic acid here are Rhus, Bryonia, 
Apis, Phosphoric acid, A T itric acid and Arsenicum. 

Bryonia resembles it in the early stages of typhoid fever. Both have 
that nausea when sitting up in bed, both have dry tongue and soreness 
through the body, but there are quite a number of other symptoms 
which will enable you to distinguish, and which have been mentioned 
in the lecture on Bryonia. 

Rhus tox. , like Muriatic acid, has this restlessness in the beginning. 
The patient is continually moving and tossing about the bed. He can- 
not sleep at night. There is slight delirium, with muttering. All 
these symptoms are under both Rhus and Muriatic acid. Rhus has not 
so much debility as the latter, hence it is followed rather than preceded 
by the Muriatic acid. 

Phosphoric acid resembles Muriatic acid, but resembles it in this re- 
spect: Phosphoric acid has apathy and indifference; a complete "don't 
care condition;" indifferent to what may happen to himself, or to 
others. That is not the condition calling for Muriatic acid, for taci- 
turn^ is not indifference. Then again, Phosphoric acid does not cause 
the same prostration that we find under Muriatic acid. The character- 
istic stupor of Phosphoric acid is this: the patient is easily aroused from 
stupor, and is perfect^ rational when aroused, no matter how soon he 
may drop off again to sleep. 

Apis resembles Muriatic acid. Both remedies have this dry and 
shrunken tongue, both have sliding down to the foot of the bed, im- 
pending paralysis of the brain, etc. The Apis tongue is very charac- 
teristic, and differs from that of Muriatic acid. It is covered with little 
blisters, especially along the border. The patient cannot put the 
tongue out; it seems to catch on the teeth, or, if he does get it out, it 
trembles. 

Arsejiicum you can readily distinguish by the symptoms, which I 
will give you next week when I lecture on that drug. 

You should also remember in this connection Baptisia, which has, in 
common with Miiriatic acid, this great weakness. Baptisia, however, 
has a besotted look to the face; the teeth are covered with black 
sordes, and the tongue is red on the edges and yellowish-brown down 
the centre. 

Now, a word of caution. Do not mistake the symptoms of Muriatic 
acid for those of Belladonna. The novice is apt to do it. For instance, 
you notice the flushed face, the over-excitement of the senses, desire 



524 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

to sleep but cannot; these are all symptoms of Belladonna. But try to 
find the meaning of the Belladonna symptoms and then of those of 
Muriatic acid, and you will find that they are by no means the same. 
The Belladomia symptoms apply to hyperemia, and to the beginning 
of the disease, and not to overwhelming of the system by disease, as in 
Muriatic acid. 

Next I wish to refer to Muriatic acid in scarlatina. The body is in- 
tensely red. There is rush of blood to the head, with bright red face 
and great drowsiness. Now the rash comes out very sparingly, and 
is scattered irregularly over the surface of the body, and interspersed 
with petechise, with bluish or purplish spots. The child is very rest- 
less, throws off the clothes, and will not be covered, As the symptoms 
progress, the skin becomes purplish and the feet decidedly blue. 
Catarrhal or even diphtheritic symptoms, the diphtheritic symptoms 
already referred to, may complicate the case. A thin, excoriating dis- 
charge escapes from the nose, making the upper lip sore. And so 
irritating are the discharges from the mouth that the mucous membrane 
becomes intensely red, and even denuded of its epithelium. By and 
by, yellowish-gray deposit forms in the mouth, and particularly in the 
fauces, and on the tonsils, uvula, and posterior wall of the pharynx. 
One of the provers had symptoms that made it difficult to decide be- 
tween those of diphtheria and those produced by Muriatic acid. The 
breath becomes very foetid, and the uvula, cedematous. Sometimes 
the latter hangs down as thick as your thumb, and lies on the tongue, 
causing the child to gag and choke. These are the diphtheritic and 
catarrhal symptoms, and they may occur with or without scarlatina. 

Belladonna is apparently, not truly, a concordant remedy here. 
These symptoms may cause you to give Belladonna, and incorrectly, too. 
The drowsiness and disturbed sleep, etc. , of this remedy are caused 
by congestion of the brain, which is not the case under Muriatic acid. 

More closely allied are Apis and Sulphur, which both produce red- 
ness of the skin to a marked degree. 

Kali permanganicum resembles Muriatic acid in the throat symptoms, 
especially in the cedematous uvula, but is marked by excessive fcetor. 
Other remedies having this symptom are Apis, Natrum arsenicosum, 
Mercurius cyanatus, Capsicum, Kalibichr., Arsenicum and Hydrocyanic 
acid. This last remedy resembles Muriatic acid in its throat symptoms, 
and in the blueness of the surface, and in the presence of petechiae in 
the rash. 



THE ACIDS. 525 

Sulphuric acid resembles Muriatic acid in scarlatina in that both 
remedies have these bluish spots, great weakness and diphtheritic 
membrane. Sulphuric acid does not have relief from uncovering. Then 
again, there are appearances on the skin like suggillations. Spots ap- 
pear that look as though the parts had been bruised. 

I have also found Muriatic acid useful in the last stages of dropsy 
from cirrhosed liver. Of course it may be used in any other serious 
disease of the liver in which the symptoms indicate it. The dropsy 
progresses as it does ordinarily in cirrhosed liver. The patient finally 
develops a typhoid condition, and becomes drowsy. Now these are 
the symptoms for which I have selected Muriatic acid. It does not 
cure; it will only relieve. The patient is drows}^ and becomes very 
much emaciated. The mouth is dry or it is aphthous. The stools are 
often watery and involuntary. The stomach is so weak and irritable 
that no food can be retained. 

Nitro-muriatic acid is also to be remembered in these cases of weak 
digestion. Its symptoms you will find recorded in Allen, and are very 
similar to those of Muriatic acid. 

The antidotes to Muriatic acid are Camphor and Bryo?iia for the dy- 
namic effects of the drug, and alkalies for its acute poisonous effects. 

Mtiriatic acid may also be used for the muscular debility following 
the prolonged use of Opium. 



LECTURE L. 

PHOSPHORIC AND SULPHURIC ACIDS. 

{Debility — Aphthae — Typhoid. 
Haemorrhages. 
Diarrhoea. 

Phosphoric Acid. 

Rhus tox. 

China, Arsenicum, Veratrum. 
Phosphoric acid. { Nux vomica. 

Ferrum > Camphor. 

Baptisia. 

To-day we have to study Phosphoric acid. This is a combination of 
oxygen with phosphorus. Phosphoric acid produces weakness or de- 
bility. Sometimes it causes a transient excitement, but the main 
characteristic of the drug is this debility, which is characterized by 
indifference or apathy, by torpidity of both mind and body, by com- 
plete sensorial depression. The patient is disinclined to answer your 
questions. His answers are short, consisting generally of "Yes" or 
" No," and are made in a way that show that it is annoying to him to 
speak. The delirium is quiet, not violent, but accompanied with this 
characteristic depression of the sensorium and muttering, unintelligible 
speech. He lies in a stupor, or in a stupid sleep, unconscious of all 
that is going on about him ; but when aroused he is fully conscious. 
That is characteristic of Phosphoric acid. You see it is depressing 
to the sensorium and to the body in general, and yet these changes are 
in a certain sense superficial. It does not seem to dip deep down 
into the tissues, so to speak, and affect those serious changes in them 
that call for some such drug as Lachesis. You will find the quality 
above-mentioned pervading every Phosphoric acid symptom I shall 
mention. 

So, you would not expect to give the drug in advanced stages when 
the stupor is complete. 



PHOSPHORIC ACID. 527 

Now the symptoms which indicate Phosphoric acid in typhoid fever 
are these : pointed nose ; dark blue rings around the eyes. The patient 
may suffer from nose-bleed, but which, however, gives no relief to the 
symptoms in the early stages of typhoid fever. This is the very op- 
posite of Rhus tox., which is otherwise similar to Phosphoric acid. 
Rhus has epistaxis in the beginning of typhoid fever, but the symp- 
toms are relieved, by the haemorrhage. The Phosphoric acid patient 
bores his finger into the nose. Now do not suppose because the 
patient is picking at the nose that he has worms and that you must 
give Cina. He may have itching of the nose. The symptom may also 
come from abdominal irritation not due to worms. With Cina, it 
occurs from worms ; with Phosphoric acid, from the irritation of Peyer's 
patches, consequently you will find the abdominal symptoms plentiful. 
For instance, the abdomen is apt to be distended and bloated. There 
is a great deal of gurgling and rumbling in the abdomen. There is 
often diarrhoea with stools that are watery, sometimes involuntary, and 
contain undigested food. For instance, the milk which you have given 
your patient passes more or less undigested, and there is copious escape 
of flatus with the stool. The tongue is dry, and may have a dark-red 
streak down its centre ; but it is apt to be pale and clammy, and some- 
times covered over with slimy mucus. Sometimes the patient bites 
the tongue involuntarily while asleep; this is a spasmodic motion; while 
the jaws come together the tongue protrudes. The urine you will find 
to be highly albuminous ; it has a milky appearance, decomposes very 
rapidly and you will find it also loaded with earthy phosphates. These 
are the main symptoms which would suggest the selection of Phosphoric 
acid in typhoid fever. 

The nearest remedies here are Rhus and Phosphorus. Phosphoric acid 
often follows Rhus after the latter has relieved the restlessness but not 
the diarrhoea, and the patient goes into this quiet sort of stupor. 

Phosphorus has more dryness of the tongue, more sensorial excite- 
ment ; all the senses are irritated ; the patient cannot bear an3 T noises 
or odors. If diarrhoea is present, the stools are blood-streaked and 
look like ' ' fresh- water. ' ' 

In this sensorial apathy you should also remember the Sweet spirits 
of nitre. The patient lies in bed, perfectly indifferent to every one. 
He answers questions readily enough, but is apathetic. That is the 
condition in which Hahnemann gave Sweet spirits of nitre. I have 
found it to succeed when Phosphoric acid failed. 



528 A CIJNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

Arnica is also to be placed by the side of Phosphoric acid. L,ike 
the acid, it has apathy or indifference. The patient does not seem to 
realize that he is as sick as he is. But the Arnica condition is more 
advanced state. The depression and stupor are more profound. He 
goes to sleep when answering your questions, showing you how over- 
powering is the stupor. Then, too, you have the petechise or ecchy- 
moses common to this remedy, and, still later, involuntary stool and 
urine. 

Opium is, more than Phosphoric acid, a remedy for stupor when that 
stupor is progressive. It is only in the beginning of the Opium state 
that the patient can be aroused from sleep. The stupor goes on until 
no amount of shaking can bring the patient to consciousness. Breath- 
ing grows more and more labored and stertorous; the face, instead of 
being pale, sunken and hippocratic, as in the acid, is deeper red, 
almost a brownish-red. The browner the red, the more is Opium 
indicated. 

Another important series constitutes the emotional symptoms of 
Phosphoric acid. It is one of the best remedies we have for the bad effects 
of grief and depressing emotions, particularly for the chronic effects of 
disappointed love. It is here particularly indicated after Ignatia. 
Ignatia suits the acute symptoms and Phosphoric acid the chronic. 

Phosphoric acid is also indicated for homesickness. The patient is 
sad; he often has hectic fever and flushing of the face, especially in the 
afternoon, evening or toward night. He has sweat towards evening, 
and complains of crushing weight on the vertex. That last symptom 
is verjr characteristic of Phosphoric acid. Now, we may carry these in- 
dications further than this. We all know how the emotions affect 
the body, how bad news affects the digestion, how mother's milk is 
made poisonous by some powerful emotion. We may find in Phos- 
phoric acid a remedy for uterine and ovarian diseases which arise 
remotely from emotional causes. Thus you may use it in prolapsus 
uteri which seems to have been precipitated by depressing emotions. 
If you have other symptoms to aid you in its selection, then all the 
more promptly will you find both local and constitutional symptoms 
removed by its administration. 

In homesickness you should also think of Capsicum. 

Natrum mur. may be placed alongside of Phosphoric acid for the 
chronic effects of grief with the " vertex headache," sadness, weeping, 
emaciation, etc. 



PHOSPHORIC ACID. 529 

Next, I would like to say a few words about the diarrhoea caused by 
Phosphoric acid. It is particularly indicated in diarrhoea which is pre- 
ceded by rumbling in the bowels. The stools are frequent and per- 
sistent. Particularly is it indicated in young persons who grow 
rapidly. But the diarrhoea, despite its frequency, does not proportion- 
ately weaken the patient. The mother will tell you that her child has 
had diarrhoea for six weeks, with a great deal of rumbling of flatus, 
and yet it does not seem to be much weakened thereby. The stool 
may contain undigested food, and it may follow a meal. 

The distinction between Phosphoric acid and Cinchona lies in the fact 
that the Cinchona diarrhoea exhausts the patient excessively. 

Then another symptom of Phosphoric acid is, that the patient, though 
quite weak, is rested by a very short sleep. I presume that this action 
of the acid is owing to the stimulating effect of the Phosphorus it con- 
tains. 

Phosphoric acid is suited more to the remote effects of the loss of 
animal fluids rather than to the acute symptoms. Thus we find it 
indicated for the long-lasting effects of seminal emissions, whether oc- 
curring during sleep or when awake, with every effort at stool or uri- 
nation or from excessive venery, especially onanism. The whole 
system seems to be weakened. The patient is dizzy, feels as if he 
would fall. There is another peculiar form of dizziness. On lying 
down he feels as if the feet were going higher up than the head. The 
scrotum and testicles hang down flabby and relaxed. The penis has 
no power of erection, or erections are deficient. Semen escapes too 
soon during coitus. The patient complains of formication over the 
scrotum. The back and legs are weak, so that he totters when he 
walks. He has little or no absolute pain, except perhaps a burning in 
the spine, which is worse at night. 

Phosphoric acid is very similar to Cinchona, in fact it is superior to it 
in the chronic effects of loss of seminal fluid. Cinchona is useful for 
the acute effects. For instance, a man has emissions for three or four 
consecutive nights, and is thus much weakened; then Ci?ichona will 
relieve him promptly. 

When you give Phosphoric acid for this relaxed condition of the 
genitals, give it low. 

In headache, Phosphoric acid occasionally comes into play, especially 
when the trouble occurs in school-girls; the headache comes on when 
they study and continues as long as the mental effort is maintained. 
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53° A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Phosphoric acid, furthermore, is to be thought of as a remedy for the de- 
bility arising from excessive study. 

Phosphoric acid also affects the mucous surfaces. We have to re- 
member it particularly in chest affections. The cough arises from 
tickling in the chest, in the region of the ensiform cartilage. It is 
worse in the evening after the patient lies down. In the morning we 
find expectoration, which is yellowish or muco-purulent, and usually 
tasting salty. We may think of it, although less frequently than of 
Phosphorus, in cases of tuberculosis, when there is great weakness of 
the chest, so that the patient can hardly talk. This weakness seems 
to be a cause of dyspnoea. Every draught of air gives him fresh cold. 
He wraps his chest up warmly; he cannot bear a draught of air to 
touch his chest. When these symptoms are present, the acid is superior 
to Phosphorus. 

Next, the action of Phosphoric acid on the bones. You may give it 
in scrofulous affections of children; for example, in hip diseases and in 
curvature of the spine from caries of the vertebra, when this symptom 
is present: if the child is old enough he will complain of a feeling as 
if the bones were being scraped with a knife. This is from inflamma- 
tion of the periosteum. This symptom is worse at night and may 
occur after the abuse of mecury. 

Phosphoric acid, like all the mineral acids, affects the kidneys. It 
produces first what we may call polyuria or copious urination. The 
symptom, as it was produced in the prover, was this: the urine flowed 
so rapidly and so frequently that it came out as though the urethra 
were twice its natural size. You may see in Phosphoric acid a possible 
remedy for diabetes mellitus. The symptoms which led you to it are, 
first of all, this frequent and profuse urination, requiring the patient 
to rise often at night. The urine is often milky in appearance. Some- 
times it deposits jelly-like masses, particularly in catarrh of the 
bladder. 

I would also like to call your attention to Lactic acid. As a remedy 
in diabetes I have used it with great benefit. There are pronounced 
anaemia, nausea after eating, canker sores in the mouth, salivation and 
polysuria. 

Phosphoric acid has been recommended for growing pains. Guaiacum 
is also said to be useful for these. 



SULPHURIC ACID. 53 1 



Sulphuric Acid. 



f Arnica, Conium, Ruta. 
Sulphuric acid. <j Pulsatilla, Nux vomica. 
^ Lachesis. 



V. 

Pulsatilla. 



> Pulsatilla. 



Sulphuric acid is indicated when the patient is hasty, quick and rest- 
less in his actions, sometimes, too, when there is the opposite condition, 
one of great depression, as in typhoid states. He answers questions 
slowly and with great difficulty, just as does the Phosphoric acid patient. 
You find that there is a general sensation of trembling in the Sulphuric 
acid patient. He feels as if he were trembling from head to foot, 
although there is no sign of it on the surface. The face in these con- 
ditions is rather peaked and is apt to be pale with blue rings around the 
eyes. Sometimes there is a feeling as though white of egg were dried 
on the skin. The patient is particularly weak about the digestive 
organs ; thus there is a cold, relaxed feeling about the stomach, mak- 
ing the patient long for some strong or stimulating drink, as brandy, 
and this, too, in persons who are not addicted to drink. So weak is 
the stomach they vomit all food ; the ejected matters are very sour. 

You will find Sulphuric acid indicated especially for inebriates who 
are on their "last legs." They have run down completely, and have 
long since passed the Nux vomica condition. You find them pale, 
shrivelled-looking and cold ; their stomachs so relaxed as not to be able 
to tolerate any food. They cannot even drink water unless it contains 
whiskey. The liver is enlarged. They have a dry stomach cough, 
often followed by belching, the act of coughing hurting the liver. The 
diarrhoea is watery and offensive, and is accompanied by excessive 
irritability of mind. ' They have a quick, hasty manner of doing every- 
thing. There is always dampness or oozing of moisture from the 
rectum. They frequently suffer from piles which burn, and are so 
large that they fill up the rectum. These cases are relieved by Sul- 
phuric acid. 

There is another use we may make of Sulphuric acid, and it is derived 
from its power of modifying the thirst for spirituous liquors. You 



532 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

should take two or three drops of the pure acid and dissolve them in a 
glass one-half full of water. Give it to the inebriate every two or three 
hours in teaspoonful doses, and it will overcome the physical craving. 
Give it until he gets well, even if it produces a sore mouth. Should it 
produce diarrhoea, Pulsatilla is the proper antidote. 

Another effect of Sulphuric acid is its action in aphthous sore mouth 
occurring in debility from protracted disease, or in children with 
summer complaint or marasmus. The mouth is filled with yellowish 
aphthous spots. There is a profuse flow of saliva. With this there 
is apt to be vomiting of sour milk or sour mucus. The child smells 
sour despite the most careful washing. The stool is yellowish or slimy, 
having the appearance of chopped eggs. The child is very apt to have 
a cough, which is very likely a stomach-cough, with belching of wind 
after the cough. 

You may think of Sulphuric acid also in diphtheria. The tonsils are 
bright red and quite swollen, so swollen in fact that liquids escape 
through the nose. The child is deathly pale, so pale that it looks like 
a corpse. It is inclined to drowsiness or somnolence. It can hardly 
breathe or talk, or make any noise on account of the abundance of 
membrane. 

Sulphuric acid is also useful as a traumatic remedy. It may be used 
for bruises of soft parts after Arnica; in bruises of glands after Conium ; 
in injuries of bones after Ruta. Particularly may it be used when 
there are long-lasting black and blue spots with soreness and stiffness. 

Again, Sulphuric, more than any other acid, is useful in hsemor- 
rhages. It causes haemorrhage from every orifice of the body, the blood 
being dark and thin. 

You may differentiate Sulphuric acid from Carbo veg. in the dyspepsia 
of drunkards by the fact that Sulphuric acid is more of a " sour remedy ' ' 
and Carbo veg. a "putrid remedy." 



LECTURE LI. 

NITRIC, HYDROCYANIC AND PICRIC ACIDS 



Nitric Acid. 

f Calcarea ostrearum, Kali carb., Lycopodium. 
I Arsenicum, Carbo veg. , Phosphorus, Moschus, Anti- 
Nitric acid. ^ monium tart. 

Phosphoric acid, Muriatic acid. 

Hepar, Mercurius. 

V 



Arum triphyllum. 



Nitric acid. < 



Erosion of the mucous membranes, worse where 
they join the skin. 

Offensive discharges. 

Ulcers, irregular, exhibiting exuberant granula- 
tions ; worse from touch, from which they will 
bleed. 

Abuse of mercury. 

Typhoid.— Debility. 

Catarrh. 

Fibrous and osseous tissues. 



Nitric acid as a chemical substance need scarcely be explained to 
you, as you know its properties so well. I therefore pass on to con- 
sider its use as a medicine. You know its effects on the tissues, stain- 
ing the skin a dark and yellowish-brown. It is a highly corrosive acid, 
eating into the flesh. Hence it has been used for the removal of warts, 
tumors, ulcers and exuberant granulations. 

It acts very powerfully on the mucous membranes, and has a par- 
ticular affinity for the outlets of mucous surfaces where skin and 
mucous membrane join. Hence you will find its symptoms chiefly 
about the mouth, lips, nostrils, meatus urinarius and anus ; in fact, 
wherever skin and mucous membrane come together, there has Nitric 
acid a prominent action. 



534 A CLINICAIv MATERIA MEDICA. 

As an illustration, we find it useful in stomacace or ulceration of the 
mouth. True to the character of the drug, this stomacace will present 
its most violent symptoms about the lips. There will be blisters and 
vesicles on and around the lips in connection with the sore mouth. 
Ptyalism will be present, particularly in cases that have been abused 
by mercury. So, too, you will find that the diarrhoea is associated 
with soreness and rawness of the anus.* Even fissures may be present, 
as I have already said. 

The characteristic discharges produced by Nitric acid are offensive, 
thin and excoriating, and, if purulent, are of a dirty yellowish-green 
color and not at all laudable. 

The ulcers calling for Nitric acid are offensive and characteristically 
irregular in outline, tending to spread at the peripher)^, but more deeply 
than those arising from the action of Mercurius, which produces a 
superficial flat ulcer. These ulcers of Nitric acid are very apt to be 
filled with profuse exuberant granulations, which bleed readily from 
the slightest touch. Even the dressing that you apply makes the ulcer 
bleed. The pains are of a sticking character, as if splinters were stick- 
ing into the affected parts. They are often associated with burning 
pains. The ulcers are worse from the application of cold water. Nitric 
acid is particularly indicated in syphilitic ulcers after abuse of mercury, 
and also in those of a scrofulous character after Calcarea has failed. 

Another evidence of the offensiveness of the exhalations and secre- 
tions in Nitric acid is found in the urine, which has a strong odor, very 
much like that of the horse. It probably contains an excess of hippuric 
acid. This symptom is most highly developed in Benzoic acid. So 
characteristic is it in that drug that you will seldom if ever find it 
absent in the great variety of diseases curable by Be?izoic acid. 

The leucorrhcea is acrid, foetid, thin, brown, watery or stringy. 

The stools, too, show the putridity of Nitric acid. They are very 
offensive, and are green in color, and in children contain lumps of 
casein. They are also slimy from excess of mucus and are associated 
with much straining; the tenesmus here closely allies it to Mercurms . 
At other times, particularly in scrofulous children, the stools are pale 
from deficiency of bile, and pasty and sour as well as offensive. 

Nitric acid affects the mucous membranes, producing catarrhs. We 
find it indicated in coryza, particularly when it is associated with some 
malignant disease, as scarlatina or diphtheria. Yellow foetid eczema 

*Sore excoriated anus: MERC, SULPH., Cham., Arsenic, Puis., Graph., China. 



NITRIC ACID. 535 

with ulcers; the Eustachian tubes obstructed. In nasal diphtheria, 
Nitric acid is one of the chief remedies. The discharge from the nose 
is watery and very offensive, excoriating every part which it touches; 
frequent epistaxis. If you examine the nose, you will find that there 
is a well-developed white deposit therein. Another symptom, which is 
a very characteristic symptom, accompanying these conditions, is inter- 
mittent pulse. If the membrane has descended into the throat, you will 
have foetid odor from the throat, too. The child will complain of a feel- 
ing as though there was a splinter there. This is a general characteristic 
of Nitric acid, a sensation as of a fish-bone, splinter or piece of glass stick- 
ing into the affected part . It runs all through the symptomatology of the 
remedy. You find it in the ulcers, and you find it in the rectum as- 
sociated with the fistulse and piles, and you find it here in the throat. 

Nitric acid is here very similar to its complement, Arum triphyllum, 
which, like the former, causes excoriating discharge from the nose, 
making the lips sore; the corners of the mouth crack so that the child 
cannot open its mouth on account of the soreness. 

Another remedy is Muriatic acid, which has thin excoriating dis- 
charge from the nose, intermittent pulse and loss of appetite. 

Another effect of Nitric acid, and one, too, in which it has no su- 
perior, is its use to remove the bad effects of mercury. The particular 
symptoms which call for it in this condition are these: irritability, 
restlessness and mental anxiety. This irritability amounts to cursing 
and swearing. There are also periosteal pains; ophthalmia; inflamma- 
tion or ulceration of the cornea, with tendency of the ulcers to perfor- 
ate; hardness of hearing from catarrh of the middle ear and Eustachian 
tube; ptyalism; ulcers in the throat; caries of bones, particularly of 
the mastoid process of the temporal bone; dysentery, etc. 

It is adapted to secondary more than to primary syphilis, and more 
especially adapted to secondary syphilis after the abuse of mercury. 
Chancres have even returned and are phagedenic. There is great 
soreness in the bones at night, particularly in the bones of the head 
and along the shins, and this is worse from every change in the 
weather. On a damp day he will have a boring pain in the bones. 
Ulcers appear in the throat or on the surface of the body, and these 
are characteristically irregular in outline. Warts develop, and these 
are almost always more or less pediculated. There are yellowish- 
brown spots or copper-colored spots all over the body. There is great 
debility, with sweat and exhaustion. 



536 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

When mercury has been abused, Hepar is probably the best antidote 
we have. When mercurialization is conjoined with syphilis, Nitric acid 
is the preferable remedy. 

Nitric acid may be needed in the treatment of phthisis. There are 
sudden rush of blood to the chest, and decided hectic fever, which indi- 
cates ulceration of the lungs from breaking down of tubercles. The 
chest is extremely sore to the touch. The patient suffers from frequent 
haemorrhages from the lungs, the blood being bright red and profuse. 
There is great dyspnoea, so that the patient cannot talk without getting 
out of breath. There are also morning hoarseness, exhausting phthisi- 
cal diarrhoea, worse in the morning, and sharp stitches through the 
right chest to the scapula. The pulse is intermittent. The least at- 
tempt at exertion causes palpitation of the heart and dyspnoea. The 
sweat comes particularly at night and towards morning, and exhausts 
the patient very much. The skin is apt to be cold towards morning. 
He is chilly on getting into bed. Heat comes in flashes, or it is only 
in the hands and feet. The cough is of a tickling character, and seems 
to annoy him all night. You hear on examination, loud rales all 
through the chest, and the expectoration is offensive, bloody and 
decidedly purulent, and of a dirty green color, not being yellowish- 
green and laudable, as you find under Lycopodium and Pulsatilla. Some- 
times the cough is loose and rattling in character. The patient is 
usually of thin build, with dark hair and eyes. 

Nitric acid is very often indicated in phthisis after Calcarea ostre- 
arum or Kali carb. Calcarea is especially suited to leucophlegmatic 
patients. The face is pale and sallow. There is soreness of the chest, 
which is very much aggravated by touch or pressure. The cough is 
loose and rattling. Diarrhoea, if present, is worse in the evening. 
Hoarseness, through persistent, is painless. When, however, the Cal- 
carea condition has run into the acid debility. Nitric acid is one of the 
very best remedies to follow. It does not often cure, but it relieves 
and prolongs life for years. 

Still another application that we may make of Nitric acid is in 
typhoid fever, particularly in the ulcerative stage, when Peyer's 
patches have begun to break down. You will find the patient greatly 
exhausted. The characteristic indications for Nitric acid are these: 
stools are green, slimy and offensive, and sometimes purulent from the 
pus coming from these ulcers, and there is profuse bright red haemor- 
rhage from the bowels, with fainting on the slightest motion. The 



HYDROCYANIC ACID. 537 

tongue is either white and studded with vesicles or little sore spots, or 
it is brownish and dry. We may have well-marked pneumonic compli- 
cations. There seems to be threatening paralysis of the lungs, which 
you know is by no means an uncommon thing in typhoid fever. This 
incipient paralysis of the lungs is expressed by loud rattling of mucus 
in the chest. The pulse, in such cases, you will find to intermit at 
every third beat. 

Now, do not forget Moschus, Phosphorus, Antimonium tart. , Arseni- 
cum and Cuprum and other remedies that I have mentioned in this 
connection. 

In haemorrhage from the bowels during typhoid, you may also re- 
member Alumen, which is useful when there are large clots passed. 

Arsenicum is called for in this haemorrhage when the flow consists 
of dark watery blood, and is associated with anxiety and restlessness. 

We find Hamamelis indicated when there is a dark venous flow, 
without anxiety. Sometimes the blood is dark and pitch-like. 

Still another remedy is Leptandra, which is useful in typhoid fever 
with symptoms of a bilious character, when the stools consist of black 
blood, looking like pitch. 



Hydrocyanic Acid. 

f Spasms; epilepsy; tetanus. 

Hydrocyanic acid. \ _. f •.' 

Scarlatina. 

(^ Heart; cough. 

Hydrocyanic acid acts upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system, and 
particularly upon the medulla and upper portion of the spinal cord. 
It produces convulsions which are very much like those of the fully- 
developed epileptic attack. Dr. Hughes, of Brighton, England, rec- 
ommends it as a specific for epilepsy. This, of course, it is not. To 
cure any disease, you will have to take into consideration the symptoms 
of each case, and prescribe accordingly. 

Hydrocyanic acid also produces a tetanus which resembles very much 
that produced by Nux vomica. The body is stiffened and thrown back, 
there is cramp in the nape of the neck like Cicuta; breathing comes in 
paroxysms, the jaws are set, there is foaming at the mouth, but the 
face is flushed. 



53 8 A CUNICAI, MATKRIA MKDICA. 

It is also useful in convulsions during severe attacks of illness, when 
the face is blue, and the prostration is very great. There are gasping 
breathing, clutching at the heart, and livid color of the surface of the 
body. 

You may also give Hydrocyanic acid for very severe cases of prostra- 
tion, with approaching paralysis of the brain and lungs, and when 
there is gurgling from the throat to the stomach when swallowing. 

In cholera, Hydrocyanic acid is to be placed by the side of Camphor, 
being indicated in marked collapse with sudden cessation of all dis- 
charges, as vomiting and purging. 

In scarlatina it is indicated in almost hopeless cases of a malignant 
type, in which the rash is livid from the very beginning. The feet 
are almost always cold. 

Hydrocya?iic acid may be given for the cough of heart disease when 
it is reflex from organic changes in the heart. It may also be used for 
the dry tickling cough of consumptives. 

You may prefer Laurocerasus for the dry, teasing cough of con- 
sumptives, worse at night, and indeed for heart cough. You may 
also give it for cough with expectoration which contains little specks 
of blood scattered through it. 

Picric Acid. 

Picric acid at first causes congestions. These are soon followed by 
weariness and mental inactivity, showing how intensely the remedy 
attacks the vital forces. This weariness progresses from a slight feel- 
ing of fatigue on motion to complete paralysis. It is accompanied by 
indifference, want of will-power, and desire to lie down and rest. 
Animals, poisoned with this acid, were affected with paralysis of the 
hind legs, with slow breathing and great muscular weakness. At the 
autopsies made on them, the cortex cerebri, the cerebellum, medulla 
oblongata and spinal cord were found reduced to a soft, pulpy mass. 
The blood was dark brown in color, and loaded with little shining, 
greasy particles. The urine was rich in phosphates and uric acid, and 
poor in sulphates and urates. Albumen and sugar were also found in 
the urine. The liver was full of fat granules and its borders dark with 
stagnant blood. 

These symptoms and pathological observations bespeak the use of 
Picric acid in diseases of the brain and spinal cord. To give it, we 



picric acid. 539 

need not wait until paralysis has set in. We may find it useful in 
typhoid conditions and also in conditions of brain fag when the mind 
has been over- worked. In the latter affection, Picric acid is one of our 
best remedies. 

It is also useful in neurasthenia. You will find dull headache with 
aggravation from the slightest attempt at using the mind. This may 
be in the forehead or in a still worse place, in the occiput, and may then 
extend down the spine. The patient complains of feeling constantly 
tired and heavy. Any attempt to study brings on anew these symptoms 
of the brain, and also develops burning along the spine and very great 
weakness of the legs and back, with soreness of the muscles and joints. 
Sometimes sleep is restless and disturbed by priapismic erections. With 
these, of course, there will be frequent seminal emissions. Sometimes 
you will find severe pains in the neck and occiput going up to the 
supraorbital notch or foramen, then extending down into the eyes. 
There are hot feeling in the lower dorsal region, and aching and drag- 
ging in the lumbar region, which is worse from motion. On awaking 
from a sleep the patient has a tired aching in the lumbar region. The 
legs are heavy and, at the same time, weak. With this heaviness of 
the feet he sometimes complains of dull frontal headache. Sometimes 
he complains of numbness and crawling in the legs, with trembling 
and with pricking, as if from needles. He has tingling of the lips, 
formication about the head, and crawling as of ants over the surface. 
The least exertion causes prostration. He also has vertigo, worse when 
he stoops, walks or goes up-stairs. He has headaches, with dull, throb- 
bing, heavy, sharp pains, worse from study or movement of the eyes, 
and better from rest, the open air, or binding the head tightly. The 
pupils are dilated. Sparks appear before the eyes, which may even 
smart and burn. Thick matter forms in the canthi. The eye symp- 
toms are worse from artificial light. Accompanying the congestion of 
the head is nose-bleed. The nose is full of mucus. The patient can 
breathe only when the mouth is open. The saliva is either frothy or 
stringy. The taste in the mouth is like that of the acid itself, sour 
and bitter. The throat feels rough and scraped; better from eating 
and worse from empty swallowing, and worse after sleep. There is 
thick, white mucus on the tonsils. On swallowing, the throat feels so 
sore that it almost seems as if it would split. Sour eructations may 
accompany the frontal headache. Now, these gastric symptoms may 
accompany the brain fag. Nausea, which is worse about five o'clock 



54-0 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

in the morning and worse when attempting to rise. He also complains 
of pressure and weight about the stomach. He wants to belch, but 
does not seem to have the power to do it. The irritating effect of the 
drug is further shown by diarrhoea with stools which are thin, yellow 
and sometimes oily, with a great deal of burning and smarting at the 
anus, with prostration and unsuccessful urging to stool. The kidneys 
are congested. The urine has an abnormally high specific gravity, 
and contains sugar. It is also albuminous. The conjunctivae are 
yellow, just as you find in jaundice. Papules appear on the face and 
turn into small boils. The feet are apt to be cold. These, then, are 
the main symptoms of Picric acid. Now, let us study those of a few 
of its related remedies. 

Phosphorus, like Picric acid, causes fatty changes in the blood, kid- 
neys, brain and spinal cord. Both remedies meet in sexual excesses 
and priapism, and both may be indicated in brain fag; both have con- 
gestive vertigo and crawling and tingling sensations here and there 
over the body. The distinction lies principally here: Phosphorus 
causes more irritability with the weakness, as displayed by over-sensi- 
tiveness to all external impressions. Hence, the senses are too acute, 
or, if failing, there are present photopsies; loud noises in the ears; sen- 
sitiveness to odors, to electric changes in the atmosphere; head weak; 
cannot think, with aggravation from loud noises. Phosphorus also has 
backache, with feeling as if the back would break on any motion, and 
with burning spots in the back, better on rubbing. Sexual excitement 
is very strong, but the erections are not so intense as under Picric acid, 
although the lasciviousness is more marked. Even when, in extreme 
cases, all irritability has ceased, the history shows that it once charac- 
terized the case. 

Nux vomica resembles Picric acid, somewhat, in the brain fag and in 
the gastric symptoms, in the sour eructations, in the aggravation to- 
wards morning, and in the inability to study. Nux is distinguished 
by the prominence of its gastric symptoms. 

Oxalic acid, more than Phosphorus, resembles Picric acid in the ex- 
treme picture of spinal softening. There are weakness about the loins 
and hips, extending down the legs, and numbness in the back. Picric 
acid has more heaviness and Oxalic acid more numbness. The legs are 
apt to be bluish and cold. The patient complains of paroxysms of 
dyspnoea. Another symptom, and one indicative of spinal meningitis, 
is intense inflammatory pain all through the back. A general 



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symptom of Oxalic acid is pains coming in small spots, and greatly 
aggravated on thinking of them. 

Another remedy closely related to Picric acid is Sulphur. This 
causes congestion of the lumbar spine, so intense congestion that 
paraplegia, with numbness and tingling, results. Heat in the spine. 
Retention of urine. 

Phosphoric acid suits cerebro-spinal exhaustion from over-work. 
The least attempt to study causes heaviness, not only in the head but 
in the limbs; numbness; vertigo; confusion of thought; tingling, for- 
mication, especially in small of back; back and legs weak, yet no pain, 
except a subjective sense of burning; emissions even during stool; 
genitals relaxed, 

Argentum nitricum has backache, worse when first rising from a seat 
and better from moving about, with trembling weakness of the limbs; 
vertigo, with fear of projecting corners, etc.; bones at sacrum give out; 
limbs tremble; impotency; organs shrivelled. 

Alumina is indicated in cases somewhat like those calling for Picric 
acid, but is distinguished by the pains in the spine as though a hot iron 
had been thrust into the part. The patient staggers when walking in 
the dark. He also has painful feeling about the soles of the feet. 

Silicea is quite similar to Picric acid. It is useful in nervous ex- 
haustion, where the patient dreads any exertion either of body or 
mind. When he is warmed up to his work, he can get along pretty 
well. He also has numbness in the toes, fingers and back, and the 
constipation peculiar to Silicea. 

Zinc causes nervous exhaustion. Its backache is worse at the last 
dorsal vertebra, and is worse while sitting; burning along the spine; 
formication in the calves; weak limbs; weak back and limbs, with 
goneness when hungry, especially at 11 A. m. All the nervous symp- 
toms are worse from wine. 

Of the remedies which cause violent erections you may compare the 
following: Cantharis, Phosphorus, Capsicum, Agariais, Pulsatilla, 
Platinum, Opium, Ambra grisea, Zincum, Physostigma, Pet7'oselinum 
and Mygale. 



LECTURE LII. 

SILICEA. 

( Asaf. , Phosphorus, Conium, Graphites. 
Silicea. < Sulphur, Calcarea ostr., Lycopodium. 

( Gettysburg water. <Mercurius. 

Silicea in its crude state is inert. It is insoluble, and hence has 
very little effect on the system. When potentized according to the 
formula of Hahnemann it becomes one of the most valuable drugs in 
our materia medica. It is a grand illustration of the efficacy of potenti- 
zation. 

The great and important effect of Silicea lies in the nutritive changes 
which are made by it. As nutritive changes are more evident in the 
growing child than in the adult, you will find Silicea symptoms ap- 
pearing mostly in children from infancy up, not that it is contraindi- 
cated in the adult, but its use is shown more evidently in the young. 
The child, then, is imperfectly nourished, not from defective quality 
of the food it takes, but from defective assimilation. The head is dis- 
proportionately large; the fontanelles, especially the anterior, are 
open; the body is small and emaciated, with the exception of the ab- 
domen, which is round and plump, as is often the case in scrofulous 
children. The head, including the scalp, neck and face, is covered 
with an offensive sweat. The face is pale, waxen, earthy or yellowish. 
The bones are poorly developed, as # are also the muscles, consequently 
the child is slow in learning to walk. Silicea is especially adapted to 
rachitic children. The fibrous parts of the joints are inflamed, swollen 
or ulcerated. This gives the joints, especially the knees, a knob-like 
appearance. 

Silicea is complementary to Thuja, especially in nervous affections 
and for the bad effects of vaccination. Whatever we may say in favor 
of the necessity of vaccination, we do know but that this operation 
may be followed by unhappy symptoms, and that, too, when the 
purest of virus has been used. Hence, at times, you have to counter- 
act the bad effects that may follow the operation. We know that in 
Paris some 30,000 or 40,000 children were vaccinated after each was 



silicea. 543 

given a dose of Sulphur, and this is supposed to prevent the outbreak 
of any other disease than the vaccinia itself. If such bad effects as 
erysipelas, convulsions or diarrhoea should follow, then you will give 
Silicea, which will cure the case. Thuja, itself, is complementary 
here, and comes in very well for diarrhoea following vaccination, and 
also when the vaccination fever is high. Pustules, like those of small- 
pox, together with a rash, appear all over the body. Melandrinum is 
also useful for ill-effects of vaccine, but as yet it has been only im- 
perfectly proven. 

You notice that to the right on the board I have placed Mercurius, 
prefixed by a "crescendo" mark. That means that Mercurius does 
not follow well after Silicea. Their symptomatologies are apparently 
similar, and yet they do not seem to agree, although Silicea will anti- 
dote some of the effects of crude mercury, but, as potentized medicines, 
they do not follow each other well, hence you must be careful in de- 
ciding between the two drugs. 

Fluoric acid antidotes the over- use of Silicea in bone affections. 

Hepar also antidotes some of the effects of Silicea. 

We are now ready to take up the effects of the drug. First, on 
cellular tissue. Silicea has long been known as a valuable drug, be- 
cause of its affinity for cellular tissue. It produces inflammation of 
this extensive tissue of the body, going on to suppuration, and 
suppuration, too, which is rather indolent or sluggish in type, 
not necessarily malignant, but tending to perpetuate itself and 
become chronic. The termination of the Silicea cellulitis, then, is in 
suppuration, which is persistent, in ulceration which is persistent, or 
in induration. I have already illustrated this in the application of 
Silicea to the tonsils when these glands suppurate and refuse to heal, 
Silicea is more than ever the remedy when this occurs in rachitic chil- 
dren. You will see it also in the treatment of boils or furuncles, fur- 
uncles which occur in crops and which do not heal readily, but con- 
tinue to discharge a rather thin, watery and even ichorous pus, usually 
having a foul odor, or less commonly a thick pus. Silicea may fre- 
quently be suggested as a remedy to prevent boils, on account of its 
tendency to produce inflammation of the connective tissue. 

So, too, it would be suggested in that dread disease, carbuncle, par- 
ticularly when it is situated between the shoulder and nape of the 
neck, a common site for carbuncle. 

Silicea may also be used for induration. For instance, following 



544 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

the treatment of boils and abscesses, or other inflammations of this 
kind involving the parenchyma of an organ, you may have plastic 
exudation, which results in induration. This induration Silicea will 
cause to be absorbed, thus placing Silicea alongside of Graphites, a 
drug which you will remember tends to absorb indurated surfaces, 
even going so far as to effect the obliteration of cicatrices. 

The same has been said of Phytolacca, but I think that this lacks 
confirmation. It certainly lacks the confirmation that Graphites has 
had. 

Sometimes you will find that Silicea is unsuccessful in these indu- 
rations. Then a dose of Sulphur, interpolated, makes Silicea act 
better. 

Silicea may be given with good result in all forms of ulcers, both 
benign and malignant. Its distinctive features are ulcers from bone 
diseases, as caries or necrosis, scrofulous ulcers which appear about 
joints, ulcers which appear in the back from vertebral caries, and 
ulcers which appear about the hip in hip-disease, particularly if con- 
necting with fistulse. The pus is thin and offensive, and often mixed 
with blood and sometimes with little particles looking like cheese. 
There is very little tendency to heal spontaneously. These ulcers are 
relieved by warm and aggravated by cold applications. 

Silicea acts upon the bones. We find it indicated in scrofulous 
children where the bones are curved, as for instance in spinal curva- 
ture. Not only is it indicated in lateral curvature, but where there is 
caries of the vertebral column itself. 

It may also be indicated in diseases of the hip, or knee-joint, when 
the discharges are thin and offensive, and when there are fistulous 
tracks opening into the joint. The patient is of a scrofulous diathesis, 
and presents the constitutional characteristics that I have already 
mentioned as belonging to the Silicea patient. In addition to the 
symptoms there enumerated, the Silicea patient may have an offensive 
foot sweat, and this tends to make the toes sore and even raw. Some- 
times there is an offensive axillary sweat. (I believe that the best 
remedy for axillary sweat is Petroleum. ) The child also has tendency 
to swelling of the glands, which suppurate. Now with these symp- 
toms there is a peculiar susceptibility to touch. I would here compare 
it with Lachesis, which as you will remember has extreme hyperesthe- 
sia of inflamed parts. I dwell on this symptom for two reasons; first 
because it will help you to differentiate from the closely allied lime 



silicea. 545 

salts, and secondly because it illustrates a property of Silicea which 
you will see when we come to speak of its action on the nerves. 

Let us now stop to compare Silicea with its related remedies. Asa- 
foetida has offensive discharges from the bones. It is distinguished, 
however, by the intolerable soreness around the ulcer. For instance, 
in caries of the tibia, with an external outlet and discharging pus, the 
parts around the ulcer are so sore and tender to the touch that the 
patient cannot bear the softest dressing. 

Phosphorus is very similar to Silicea in bone disease. It resembles it 
in abscess, particularly in mammary abscess, with fistulous openings. 
It is similar, too, in the caries of bone, particularly in necrosis. Phos- 
phorus, like Silicea, has over- excitability of the nervous system. 

Platinum mur. is also a valuable drug in caries of the bones. 

Another is Angustura, which is particularly useful in caries of the 
long bones, as the humerus, tibia, femur, etc. 

Strontiana carbonica is especially useful in caries of the femur with 
coexisting watery diarrhoea. 

Gettysburg salt is rich in carbonate of lithium, and is very useful for 
symptoms precisely like those of Silicea, namely, carious ulcers, or 
ulcers about joints, such as occur in hip-disease or in caries of the 
vertebrae. The discharge is acrid and excoriating. 

Sulphur, Calcarea, and Lycopodium are similar to Silicea in the scrof- 
ulous diseases of children. The distinction between Calcarea and 
Silicea is as follows : the Calcarea head sweat is confined to the scalp, 
and is sour rather than offensive. The feet also are damp from sweat, 
but the sweat does not, as in Silicea, make the feet sore or raw. Cal- 
carea lacks the sensitiveness to touch of Silicea. 

In this sweating of the head, the body being dry, Silicea is exactly 
opposite to Rhus tox., which has sweating of the body, the head being 
dry. 

The mucous membranes do not escape the action of Silicea. We 
have otorrhcea, the discharge from the ear being offensive, watery, and 
curdy. Often you find the membrana tympana perforated, the puru- 
lent discharge thence containing little pieces of bone, the result of in- 
volvement of the mastoid process or the ossicles of the middle ear 
by the disease. 

There is keratitis, especially with tendency to the formation of 
sloughing ulcers, which tend to perforate the cornea like those of 
Nitric acid. In the Silicea child they are not vascular, so there is not 
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546 A CIvINICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

much infiltration of the surrounding tissues. Hypopyon is present. 
The lids are swollen and covered with suppurating styes. 

The nose is also affected. Silicea is especially useful in nasal catarrh 
-when ulcers exist on the mucous membranes, and these discharge a 
thin, bloody excoriating matter; or they may be dry, and then there 
is annoying dryness of the nose. It is also useful when the catarrhal 
process extends backwards and involves the outlets of the Eustachian 
tubes, producing an intolerable itching and tingling in this locality. 

We also find Silicea indicated in some forms of hay- asthma, espe- 
cially that which begins with itching and tingling in the nose and vio- 
lent sneezing and excoriating discharge from the nose. 

Silicea has also an action on the lungs. It produces hoarseness and 
roughness and dryness, with a tickling cough w T hich seems to come 
from the supra-sternal fossa very much like Rumex crispus. There is 
also a feeling as if a hair were lying in the throat, larynx or trachea. 
The cough is excited by cold drinks, as under Rhus tox. and Scilla, by 
the very act of speaking, as in Phosphorus, Rumex, Ambra grisea, etc., 
and worse at night when lying down, just like Rumex, Phosphorus and 
Lycopodium. Sometimes it ends in the vomiting of mucus. 

Silicea is useful in the suppurative stage of tuberculosis, when the 
cough, at first dry, becomes loose, with the expectoration of offensive 
muco-pus. You will find it of great service in the phthisis mucosa of 
old people. After great exertion the patient expectorates nasty pus, 
which is horribly offensive. But Silicea will seldom cure these cases. 
It can only palliate. 

Phellandrium aquaticum is an excellent remedy in the last stages of 
phthisis when the expectoration is terribly offensive. 

I would advise you to remember Capsicum for bronchial catarrh 
when the breath is not offensive except during the cough. You know 
that the Capsicum patient is of lax fibre and cannot get up the expec- 
toration; so some of it lies there and undergoes decomposition. The 
air of ordinary expiration is not offensive, but as soon as the patient 
brings that from the very depths of the lungs, the offensive odor be- 
comes quite marked. 

In the Silicea diarrhoea the stools are offensive and usually painless 
and lienteric. The child vomits its food. These symptoms are asso- 
ciated with the characteristic skin lesions and constitutional peculiari- 
ties which go to make up the Silicea child. 

The constipation of Silicea is quite characteristic. The stool 



siucea. 547 

partially escapes from the rectum and then seems to slip back again. 
I think that this symptom is easily explained. There is defective ex- 
pulsive power on the part of the rectum. With a great deal of strain- 
ing the stool is partly pushed down. When the bearing ceases then it 
slips back. 

Next you have to remember the action of Silicea on the nervous 
system. It has here a very peculiar effect, which was pointed out first 
by Dr. Dunham. It causes a tendency to paralysis and paralytic 
weakness. Here, too, the trouble seems to be due to defective nutri- 
tion of the nerves themselves, both in the brain and spinal cord. Then 
you will have to remember it as a remedy in paralytic weakness ac- 
companying disease of the spinal column. Often, with this condition, 
there is the peculiar constipation I have just described. With all 
these paralytic troubles there is an over-susceptibility to nervous stim- 
uli. The senses are morbidly keen. The brain and spine cannot bear 
even an ordinary concussion or vibration. The surface of the body is 
tender and sensitive to the touch. Cold aggravates the symptoms and 
heat relieves. 

Silicea may be given in convulsions of an epileptic character, with 
well-marked aura, when it starts from the solar plexus, as in Bufo and 
Nux vomica. The attacks are also said to come in certain phases of 
the moon. The patients are worse from any over-strain of the mind 
or emotions. 

The headache of Silicea is of a nervous character, and provoked by 
any excessive mental exertion. It is generally worse over the right 
eye. It is aggravated by any noise, motion or concussion, and better 
from wrapping the head up warmly. It is not the pressure, but the 
warmth, that relieves. Sharp, tearing pains rise from the spine into 
the head. At the height of the paroxysm there is apt to be nausea 
and vomiting from sympathetic involvement of the stomach. 

You should here compare Menyanthes, Paris quadrifolia and Stron- 
tiana carb. Menyanthes was first confirmed by Dr. Dunham. It has 
a peculiar headache coming from the nape of the neck, over the head. 
There is a bursting pain, as if the membranes of the brain were tense, 
and were pushing the skull open. This is relived by pressure rather 
than by warmth. 

Paris quadrifolia has headache of spinal origin, which arises from 
the nape of the neck and produces a feeling as though the head were 
immensely large. 



548 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

Strontiana carb. produces headache coming up from the nape of the 
neck and spreading thence over the head. It is just exactly like the 
headache of Silicea. You will have to distinguish by the collateral 
symptoms. 

There are other nervous symptoms produced by Silicea. The patient 
has vertigo, which, like the pains, seems to rise from the spine into the 
head. It also causes difficulty in balancing. He has a fear that he 
will fall, and always to the left. Speech is somewhat confused. He 
finds it difficult to grasp the exact expression he wishes, and this even 
in ordinary conversation, and yet, when warmed up to his subject, he 
sometimes speaks quite fluently. Sluggishness is a contraindication of 
Silicea in nervous conditions. You cannot use it in torpid, flabby, 
nerveless persons. Remember that exactly the opposite is the case 
with disease of the lower tissues. 

Silicea acts just as powerfully on the spine as it does on the brain, 
causing general motor weakness. Here, too, it is attended with the 
same irritability. The neck is stiff, causing headache. This stiffness 
of the neck is not from cold, not from rheumatism of the various 
muscles, but from spinal irritation. The small of the back aches as if 
beaten or pounded. The patient complains of pains about the coccyx, 
and cramps such as one experiences after sitting a long time or after, 
riding a long time over a rough road. The legs tremble. They easily 
grow weary, particularly in the morning. I^oss of animal fluids 
causes marked aggravation of the symptoms. For instance, seminal 
emission or coitus causes, or is followed by, bruised aching all over the 
body. There may also be symptoms of the spine which indicate 
locomotor ataxia. The fingers feel stiff, with loss of power in them. 
The part of the body on which he lies goes to sleep. 

Silicea is useful in chronic rheumatism. It is one of the remedies on 
which to depend in treating hereditary rheumatism. The pains are 
predominantly in the shoulders and in the joints, and are worse at 
night and worse when uncovering. 

A related remedy here is Ledum, which has exactly the opposite ag- 
gravation to that of Silicea. The patient is worse from covering up. 
The symptoms usually extend from the feet upwards. 



LECTURE LIII. 



ARSENICUM ALBUM. 



Arsenicum. 



V 
Phosphorus. 



Aconite, Sulphur. 
Phosphorus, Rhus, Lachesis. 

Ipecac, China, Veratr. alb., Colchicum, Ferrum. 
Baptisia, Muriatic acid, Phosphoric acid, Nitric acid. 
Antimonium crud., Antimonium tart., Nux v., Pulsa- 
tilla. 
Secale, Camphor, Carbo v. 
Apis. 

Ailanthus. 
v Anthracinum. 



>Sesquioxide of iron. 

>China. 

> Ipecac. 

> Ferrum. 

> Graphites. 

> Camphor. 
>Veratr. alb. 



Irritability. 

Inflammations: stomach, uterus, etc. 
Fevers: continued, typhoid, intermittent. 
Skin: exanthemata, indurations, gangrene, carbuncle, 
Arsenicum. <j cancer, ulcer. 

Nerves: neuralgia, convulsions, stupor, exhaustion, 

fainting. 
Catarrhs: eyes, nose, throat, lungs, etc. 
Dropsy: anasarca, hydrothorax. 



To-day we take up for study the last of the acid remedies. I refer 
to Arsenious acid or Arsenicum album. It has quite a number of con- 
cordant remedies, and quite a list of antidotes. Its complementary 
remedies are Phosphorus and Allium saliva. 



55° A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Arsenicum has long been known as a speedy means of destroying 
life, hence it has been frequently used for suicidal and homicidal pur- 
poses. It has the property of uniting with animal tissues, probably 
with the albuminous portions, hardening them and causing them to 
resist the usual process of decay. This fact is taken advantage of by 
taxidermists in stuffing birds and animals. Cases of accidental poison- 
ing with Arsenic are quite common, and this is all the more so because 
of the use of Arsenic in the arts. In the form of Scheele's green, or 
arsenite of copper, it enters into the composition of certain paints. It 
is used frequently in the manufacture of certain green wall-papers, 
and also in artificial flowers. It is also introduced into pastes to be 
used in sealing packages, which are to protect goods from insects. 
All these uses of Arsenic render poisoning, especially chronic poison- 
ing, by it not at all uncommon. 

In certain districts Arse?iicum is indulged in as an article of diet. 
The women take it for the purpose of beautifying the complexion, and 
the men indulge in it because it enables them to work hard with little 
or no fatigue. The drug acts on muscular tissue so as to increase its 
power of endurance. We may make use of this fact when some dis- 
ease has resulted, from climbing mountains or a long journey, as a pro- 
voking or modifying cause. The "Arsenic" vice is very objection- 
able, and certainly very injurious. After awhile these persons will 
suffer from Arsenic poisoning; especially if they move away from the 
region where they are living. The symptoms of slow arsenical poison- 
ing are these : the eyelids are oedematous and the patient suffers 
from slight conjunctivitis; the eyes are always red and injected, and 
smart and burn. Associated with these symptoms is dim sight. 
Whether this comes from the inflammation externally, or from any in- 
ternal ocular trouble, I am unable to say. The mucous membrane of 
the mouth, nose and throat is unnaturally red and dry. The sufferer 
complains of almost constant thirst. Digestion is most certainly de- 
ranged. The patient will tell you that he is dyspeptic. The skin as- 
sumes rather a dry, dirty look; it is only exceptionally clear and trans- 
parent. The patient suffers frequently from nettle-rash. Long wheals 
appear, and these itch and burn intolerably. Still later, eczema makes 
its appearance. The patient also suffers from stubborn neuralgia in 
different parts of the body. These are the most common; and the 
most certain symptoms indicating arsenical poisoning. In addition to 
these there will be some acute symptoms. For instance, there will be 



ARSENICUM ALBUM. 55 1 

times when he has attacks of vomiting, with deathly nausea. He will 
vomit everything he drinks. At other times he has symptoms indi- 
cating cholera morbus, e.g., vomiting and purging, and coldness of 
the surface of the body. 

You may frequently be called upon to antidote arsenical poisoning. 
If it is an acute case you should excite vomiting and administer the 
sesquioxide of iron as an antidote. Dialyzed iron has also been rec- 
ommended. It has the advantage of being more stable than the ses- 
quioxide. For the nausea occuring during chronic poisoning, Ipecac 
acts very nicely. In the acute attacks simulating those of cholera 
morbus, Veratrum album relieves. 

Cinchona also suits many of the symptoms; particularly the debility, 
dropsy and neuralgia. 

Graphites is one of the best remedies to cure the skin symptoms of 
chronic arsenical poisoning. 

Now we will consider the symptoms of Arsenicum in their totality. 
Quite a universal symptom of the drug, and that, too, whether the re- 
sult of poisoning or of proving, is what I have already mentioned as 
an irritability of fibre. This is prominent in the worst cases in which 
Arsenicum may be used. Death may be almost certain, and yet there 
is this irritability of fibre showing the universal characteristic of the 
drug. Even when the patient lies unconscious, his stupor is broken 
by anxious moans and restlessness. Consistently with this quality of 
the drug, we find Arsenic indicated in patients who are anxious and 
restless, frequently changing their position, full of fear of death; hence 
they do not wish to be left alone for fear they will die. Delirium is 
violent, more violent than in any other of the acids except Nitric acid. 
It is worse at night, particularly after midnight. The patient has 
visions of ghosts and other fanciful figures, with trembling of the 
whole body. You cannot here fail to recognize the similarity to de- 
lirium tremens or mania- a-potu. Arse?iicum here is of great use, 
particularly in old offenders who are seriously diseased by the use 
of alcohol, and who, from some cause or other, cannot get their usual 
drink. 

The pains which the Arsenicu?n patient experiences, whether neu- 
ralgic or otherwise, make him desperate and angry, and at times almost 
furious. When falling asleep, he jerks and starts. During sleep his 
dreams are frightful and fantastic. Before going any further, I want 
to introduce a caution in regard to Arsenic. Arsenic is not a remedy 



552 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

usually called for in the beginning of diseases. The tendency of the 
symptoms is deathward. If you give the drug too soon, in a disease 
which in itself tends deathward, you may precipitate the result which 
you are anxious to avoid. I have myself several times made the mis- 
take despite great caution. Do not give Arse?iicum early in typhoid 
fever unless the symptoms call for it unmistakably. Here it is espe- 
cially dangerous to give it too soon. Often Rhus tox. precedes its use. 
I will say the same thing in regard to tuberculosis. In the last stages 
of this disease this restless tossing about is not an Arse?iic symptom, 
and Arsenicum will not relieve it. That is only a precursor of death. 
You must be certain that the mental state is undisputably that of 
Arsenic, or you will do harm instead of good to your patient. There 
is one exception to this word of caution, and that is in inflammations 
of the gastro-enteric system. I may say that Arsenicum may here be 
given quite early in the case without doing any harm, on the contrary 
with much benefit. 

Now for the inflammations and fevers of Arsenicum. Arsenicum 
alters the blood. It is useful, as we shall learn, in low types of dis- 
ease, when the blood-changes are serious. The inflammations of this 
remedy are characterized by their intensity, and by their tendency to 
the destruction of the tissue which is inflamed. In these local inflam- 
mations of Arsenic you will find burning lancinating pains the charac- 
teristic sensations. This is described by the patient as though hot 
coals were burning the part. It is often accompanied by throbbing. 
Now this burning when Arsenicum is the remedy indicates destruction 
of tissue, hence it calls for this remedy in gangrene, in sloughing, in 
carbuncles; and in that dreadful disease cancer. And it does not call 
for Arsenic when this burning is a mere sensation. Patients occasion- 
ally complain of burning pains, here and there, which arise from 
nervous causes only. Arsenicum does no good then. I have often 
seen physicians give Arse?iic when women complained of burning pain 
in the ovaries. There was no evidence whatever of active inflamma- 
tion ; the burning was purely an ovaralgia. Arsenicum could do no 
good here. If, however, there is ovaritis with the pain, Arse?iic be- 
comes an invaluable remedy. All these cases in which Arsenic is called 
for are relieved by hot applications, and greatly aggravated by cold. 

The most important sites for the Arsenicum inflammations are the 
stomach and bowels primarily, and next to these the heart. The in- 
flammation in the stomach and bowels may vary from slight irritation 



ARSENICUM ALBUM. 553 

to the most destructive gastritis and enteritis. The mouth is dry, the 
tongue white as if whitewashed, or, in some cases with irritable 
stomach, the tongue is red with raised papillae. Thirst is intense, but 
the patient drinks but little at a time because water molests the 
stomach. An ordinary amount of food causes a feeling of fulness or 
repletion. In this symptom it is similar to Lycopodium. The least 
food or drink is vomited as soon as taken. But we may have another 
group of symptoms : weak, sinking sensation at the pit of the 
stomach, relieved by eating, but so soon as he begins to eat, he has 
urging to stool with diarrhoea. Here the drug is similar to Cinchona 
and Ferrum. 

There is very distressing heartburn. Sometimes burning in the 
stomach like coals of fire is associated with the diarrhoea. The stools 
are undigested, slimy and bloody, and are attended with violent tenes- 
mus and burning in the rectum. If this goes on, the stools become 
brownish or blackish, and horribly offensive, showing that it is indi- 
cated in most serious cases of enteritis and dysentery. The exciting 
causes for these various sets of symptoms are sudden chilling of the 
stomach with ice- water or ice-cream, alcoholic drinks in excess, certain 
poisons, as the ptomaine of sausage meat that has spoiled, rancid fat, 
spoiled butter or fat that has undergone decomposition, and lobster 
salads at certain seasons of the year. 

Arsenicum also excites intestinal disease which is almost identical 
with cholera Asiatica. Even the organic growths of cholera are found 
in the discharges from the Arsenic proving. Do not conclude from 
this that Arsenic must be the remedy for cholera Asiatica. It is only 
the remedy when we have the following symptoms : intense vomiting 
and purging, the stools being not so much like rice-water as they are 
brownish-yellow, profuse, and offensive. The vomited matters are 
green, yellow and bilious. There is burning thirst, with the intense 
agony which belongs to Arse?iicum. The surface of the body is as 
cold as ice, but internally, the patient feels as if on fire. 

Arsenicum is also useful in cholera infantum, and in atrophy of in- 
fants. It is indicated by many of the symptoms that have already 
been enumerated. The symptoms of the bowels are, undigested stool, 
diarrhoea which is provoked just as soon as the child begins to eat or 
drink, aggravation after midnight (particularly the restlessness and 
the diarrhoea), and rapid emaciation. The child's skin is apt to be 
harsh and dry, and often yellowish and tawny. The little patient is 



554 A CLINICAL MATERIA MBDICA. 

restless, evidently being in constant distress. Here, too, we often 
have to give Arsenic quite early in the case, because here the symp- 
toms have been going on before your arrival. It stands in close rela- 
tion with Nux vomica and Sulphur m. atrophy of infants. For instance, 
early in the case of marasmus, you may give Arsenicum, providing 
diarrhoea is present, in a case which would call for Nux vomica or Sul- 
phur were constipation present. The same dried-up mummy which 
you find in the Sulphur case, with the peculiar gastric symptoms of 
Arse?iic, would call for Arsenic. In far-advanced cases, the resem- 
blance is not to these remedies, but to Cinchona , or China, and to 
Argentum nitricum. 

Now let us study some of the related remedies of Arsenicum in 
gastro-intestinal troubles. 

Arge?itum nitricum has slimy, greenish stools, with excessive flatu- 
lence, worse at night. Although both remedies have restlessness, it is 
not the same in each case. Arsenicum has a restless desire to change 
place, now sitting, now standing. The restlessness of Nitrate of Silver 
is purely nervous. The patient has difficulty in breathing, with long 
sighs. 

Much more frequently will you be called upon to differentiate 
between Arse?iicu?n and Carbo veg. Carbo veg. is somewhat similar to 
Arsenicum in abdominal affections arising from chilling the stomach, 
as with ice-water. It has, perhaps, less of the distinctive restless 
tossing about, but at the same time it may have a nervous, irritable, 
anxious state, without tossing about. Carbo veg. is also a similar 
remedy to Arsenicum when rancid fat has excited gastro-enteric 
symptoms. 

Secale cornutum is very similar to Arsenicum in many of its symp- 
toms. The two drugs are complementary. They agree well one with 
the other. In the abdominal symptoms both drugs meet in cholera 
Asiatica. Arsenicum may be distinguished from Secale by these few 
symptoms: the movements in Secale are copious and come in spurts; 
Secale has not the same restlessness that belongs to Arsenicum. Now, 
when there are any spasmodic symptoms present, as is often the case, 
you will find, under Secale, fingers spread asunder, with tingling in 
the hands and feet, intolerance of heat. 

Veratrum album is somewhat similar to Arsenicum, in cholera morbus. 
The latter has not so copious a stool as the former, and cold sweat on 
the forhead is more marked in Veratrum. 



ARSENICUM ALBUM. 555 

Do not forget that Cadmium sidphiiricum is similar to Arsenicum in 
black vomit, whether that symptom occur in yellow fever or in any 
other disease. 

We find Arsenicum often indicated in intermitting types of fever. 
We all know how often Arse?iic succeeds Cinchona in the treatment of 
chills and fever. It has cured many cases, especially after the 
failure of Quinine, or after the abuse of that drug; or when the fever 
has been contracted in salt marshes along the seashore. The chill is 
not well defined; in fact, it is rather irregular, but the heat is unmis- 
takable. It is intense, with burning thirst, especially for hot drinks; 
cold drinks make the patient feel chilly. Sweat does not always re- 
lieve. Sometimes it appears very tardily. The apyrexia is marked by 
severe symptoms, dropsy showing itself as the result of enlarged spleen 
or liver. The patient is scarcely able to sit up. He is often annoyed by 
neuralgia, which is typical in its recurrence. The pain usually affects one 
side of the face and seems to be almost maddening, driving the patient 
from place to place. At the height of the attack there are nausea and 
vomiting and buzzing in the ears. Arsenicum may be also used in 
intermittent, semilateral headache of malarial origin, especially after 
the abuse of quinine. 

There are several drugs similar to Arse?iicum in these malarial neu- 
ralgias. Cedron has neuralgia, returning at precisely the same hour 
each day. 

Chininum sulphuricum is also suited to periodical attacks of neu- 
ralgia, relieved by hard pressure. 

Valerian is to be thought of in hysterical patients. 

Cactus grandiflorus has neuralgic and other forms of pain, which are 
sure to appear when the patient misses an accustomed meal. 

Kalmia and Kreosote are useful in neuralgia, especially when there 
are burning pains. 

Magnesia phos. is called for in neuralgia which occurs regularly each 
night, and is relieved by heat and pressure. 

Mezereum has neuralgia in the cheek-bone or over the left eye. The 
pains leave numbness. They are worse from warmth. It is espe- 
cially useful when there have been herpetic eruptions after the abuse 
of mercury. It is one of the remedies we use for the neuralgia of 
zona. 

Robinia has: jaw-bone feels as if disarticulated. With this there is 
intensely sour taste and waterbrash or sour vomiting. 



556 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Other remedies to be borne in mind are Cinchona, Spigelia, Platinum, 
Stannum and Ckelidonium. 

In typhoid fever Arsenicum is indicated late in the disease, when the 
blood changes have so far progressed that you have a picture of com- 
plete exhaustion. The patient thinks himself still able to move about 
until he finds out how weak he is. He has fainting attacks, which 
are very alarming; he faints dead away, with cold sweat on the body. 
The delirium is worse after twelve p. m., and is attended with great 
restlessness. He is sleepless at three a. m. on account of the great 
heat. The mouth and tongue are covered with sordes, and with a 
dark brownish coating. Sometimes the tongue is very red. Around 
the dorsum and tip of the tongue you w T ill find the papillae red and 
raised, as under Belladonna, but the concomitant symptoms enable 
you to differentiate it from that remedy at once. The mouth is full of 
blisters and aphthous ulcers which bleed readily. In other cases, the 
tongue is bluish with ulcerated edges. Sometimes, in severe cases, 
water cannot be swallowed because of partial paralysis of the oesopha- 
gus. You do not often find much tympany in the Arse?iic case. The 
bowels are very much disturbed. Diarrhoea is almost always present, 
and seems to be provoked by every attempt to eat or drink. Some- 
times, stool and urine are involuntary. The stool is yellowish and 
watery in character, horribly offensive and worse after midnight. At 
other times the stools contain blood, slime and pus. In some cases the 
urine is retained from atony of the muscular fibers of the bladder. 
The fever is intense, being almost sufficient to consume the patient. 
Sometimes, you have the hemorrhagic diathesis to deal with, and 
there is oozing of blood from various parts of the body, from the eyes, 
nose, etc. This is a dangerous symptom. 

Colchicum is a remedy which we are very apt to neglect in typhoid 
fever. It seems to stand in typhoid conditions between Arsenic and 
Cinchona, having the excessive weakness of the former remedy and 
the marked tympany of the latter. The chief symptoms of Colchicum 
are abdominal. They are, this great tympany, involuntary, forcible, 
watery stools, accompanied with nausea and frequent vomiting of bile. 
The body is hot and the limbs are cold, just as in Phosphorus. The 
nose is dry and blackish. The teeth and tongue are both brown. The 
mind is somewhat cloudy. He answers questions correctly, but 
otherwise says nothing. He seems not to know the danger he is in. 

The relations of Arsenic to other remedies in typhoid fever have 



ARSENICUM ALBUM. 557 

been described to you elsewhere. I need not, therefore, repeat them 
here. 

Arsenicum may also be useful in continuous fever, which, in its 
early stages, so closely resembles that of Aconite that you may not 
be able to distinguish between the two drugs. There are hot skin, 
full bounding pulse, restlessness and anxiety. Thus far, it is exactly 
like Aconite. But it does not end here. It goes on to a continuous 
type of fever without any intermissions, and with only slight remis- 
sions. The heat increases, the patient grows more restless and weaker, 
the tongue becomes brown and typhoid symptoms develop. 

Now, the distinction between Arsenic and Sulphur is easily made. 
Sulphur is also useful in continuous fever. Arsenic is indicated when 
the great restlessness and burning show you that the case has gone 
beyond simple continuous fever. 

Now, the action of Arsenicum on the mucous membranes. We find 
it an excellent remedy in winter colds. The nose discharges a thin, 
watery fluid, which excoriates the upper lip, and yet the nasal pass- 
ages feel stuff ed-up all the time. This is accompanied by dull throb- 
bing frontal headache. Repeated attacks of this kind of catarrh or 
coryza result in the discharge of thick, yellowish, muco-purulent 
matter. Ulcers and scabs form in the nose. Sneezing is a prominent 
symptom. Now this sneezing in the Arsenic case is no joke. It does 
not give the relief which one usually gets from a good sneeze. It is a 
sneeze which starts from irritation in one spot in the nose as from 
tickling with a feather. After the sneeze, this irritation is just as 
annoying as it was before. As the cold creeps downwards, you find 
the case complicated with catarrhal asthma. Dyspnoea appears. The 
patient cannot lie down, particularly after midnight. He is greatly 
relieved by cough with expectoration of mucus. 

Arse nictiin jodatum closely resembles the "album" in coryza, hay- 
fever and influenza. It has the same thin, acrid discharge, and chill- 
iness, but owing to the Iodine it contains there is a marked affinity 
for lymphatic glands. 

You will at once recognize the similarity between the symptoms of 
Arsenic and those of hay-fever. Other remedies which you may re- 
member for this condition are: Aila?ithus, Silicea (which has itching 
or irritation in the posterior nares or at the orifices of the Eustachian 
tubes), Lobelia inflata, and a remedy introduced by the late Dr. Jeanes, 
Rosa Damascena. 



558 A CLINICAL MATERIA MBDICA. 

This Rosa Damascena is useful in the beginning of rose-cold when 
the Eustachian tube is involved and there is some little hardness of 
hearing and tinnitus aurium. 

Sinapis nigra is indicated when the mucous membrane of the nose is 
dry and hot. There is no discharge. The symptoms are worse in the 
afternoon and evening. Either nostril may be affected alone or alter- 
nately with the other. 

Wyethia is specific when with the usual symptoms of hay- fever 
there is itching of the soft palate. 

Arsenic is one of our prime remedies in asthma, whether acute or 
chronic, with aggravation after midnight and from lying down. The 
patient is beside himself with anguish. The case may be complicated 
with emphjrsema, expiration being very much prolonged as in that 
disease. It follows Ipecac well. 

In emphysema you should compare Lac/zesis, Sulphur, Ipecac, Anti- 
monium tartaricum, Naphthalin, Carbo veg, and above all the Arse- 
nite of Antimony. 

In diphtheria, Arsenicum comes into use as a most valuable drug. 
Arsenic crude kills the microscopic growths which produce the dis- 
ease. In its potentized state it cures when there is foetid breath, ady- 
namic fever and a great deal of somnolence, which is broken by starts, 
crying out and by jerking of the limbs. The membrane looks dark 
and is gangrenous. The pulse is rapid and weak. I would advise 
you to substitute Arsenicum iodatum, if, in addition to the usual 
Arsenicum symptoms, there is marked enlargement of the lymphatic 
glands. 

I have stated that Arsenic acts on the heart. It gives us a list of 
cardiac symptoms which are, in brief, these: the heart-beat is too 
strong, it is visible to the person standing by and is audible to the 
patient himself. It is worse at night and is particularly aggravated 
when the patient is lying on his back. There maybe palpitation with 
great irregularity of the heart's action. Or the pulse may be acceler- 
ated and weak. In cardiac inflammations, endocarditis or pericarditis, 
we find Arse?iic indicated after the suppression of measles or scarlatina. 
You then find present the characteristic restlessness and agony of the 
drug, tingling in the fingers, especially those of the left hand. 
(Edema is more or less general, beginning with puffiness of the eyes 
and swelling of the feet and ending with general anasarca. There is 
great dyspnoea. Now there are two varieties of dyspnoea which belong 



ARSENICUM ALBUM. 559 

to heart disease, one which depends upon the defective carrying of the 
blood through the lungs and the system generally, and the other 
which is due to accumulation of water in the chest, hydrothorax and 
hydropericardium. There are spells of suffocation, worse at night, 
particularly after midnight and on lying down. The skin is cool and 
clammy, while internally, the patient is burning hot. Now if this 
condition calling for Arsenic goes on uncured, Bright' s disease of the 
kidneys develops. The urine is highly albuminous and contains 
waxy and fatty casts. Dropsy appears. Little blisters form in the 
cedematous limbs on the legs, and these burst, and serum oozes forth. 
The skin itself is rather tense and has a pale waxen hue. Exhausting 
diarrhoea usually accompanies these symptoms. There is very apt to 
be also a burning thirst with intolerance of water. 

I wish you now to recall the comparison that I have already given 
you between Arsejiicum and Apocy?iam, and Acetic acid, which stands 
midway between Arse?iicum and Apis. I would also have you recall 
the similarity between Arsenicum and Mercurius sidphuricus in hydro- 
thorax. 

In kidney affections you may compare Arsenicum with Apis, Helle- 
borus, Phosphorus, Aurum, Terebinthina and Digitalis. 

Now the Digitalis symptoms are these: there is venous hypersemia 
of the kidneys. You are to study it, therefore, in renal affections 
when there are present dropsy, feeble or slow pulse, scanty dark turbid 
urine, which will, of course, be albuminous. It is exactly like 
Arsenic, without the restlessness and irritability of that remedy. 

Again, we find Arsenicum indicated in that dreadful disease, angina 
pectoris. The patient is obliged to sit upright; he cannot move a 
muscle of his body without great suffering. He holds his breath, so 
painful is it for him to breathe. The pain seems to radiate from the 
heart all over the chest and down the left arm. In extreme cases 
there is cold sweat on the forehead, the pulse becomes scarcely per- 
ceptible, and, with all this, there is apt to be burning around the 
heart. 

I would now like to refer to the action of Arsenic on the skin. 
You have already seen that it tends to produce induration or harden- 
ing of the skin. This renders it a valuable remedy in eczema, in fact, 
in every variety of skin disease in which there is thickening of that 
structure, with copious scaling. Arsenicum is also useful in eczema 
proper, when vesicles appear which turn into pustules and form scabs. 



560 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MED1CA. 

Arsenicum is specifically indicated for bran-colored scales on the head, 
coming down over the forehead. It may also be called for when there 
is a thick scabby eruption on the scalp, oozing pus, and very offensive. 

Arse?iicum compares with Sepia, Rhus tox., and Graphites. L,ike 
Sepia there is a dry scaly desquamation, but in Sepia this " peeling " 
follows vesicles which were not surrounded by very red skin, or it 
follows a fine rash, worse about the joints, or a circular eruption like 
herpes circinatus. 

Rhus tox. has vesicles on a red erysipelatous surface, chiefly about 
the genitals and on hairy parts. 

Graphites looks very much like Arsenicum, but has oozing of a 
glutinous fluid. 

Clematis is similar to Arsenicum, but has more rawness, aggravation 
from washing and moist, alternating with dry scabs. 

Hydrocotyle has eczema with skin thick and scaly, but less burning 
than in Arsenic. 

Under Kreosote the scales pile up into large masses; eruptions on the 
extensor surfaces of the limbs. Restlessness. Natrum mmiaticum 
on the other hand produces scaly eruptions on flexor surfaces and the 
bends of joints; dandruff alternating with catarrh and loss of smell. 

In the exanthematous diseases we find Arsenicum indicated first of 
all in urticaria. Here it is a valuable drug when the wheals are at- 
tended with burning, itching, and restlessness. Particularly may it 
be indicated for the bad effects of repercussion of hives. Even croup 
may be cured by Arsenic if it follows the retrocession of nettle-rash. 

In scarlatina Arse?iic is to be used in some of the worst cases when 
the rash does not come out properly. The child is thrown into con- 
vulsions, and lies pale and in a sort of stupor, with restlessness and 
moaning. Suddenly it seems to arouse, and immediately goes into 
convulsions, and then relapses into stupor again. Arsenicum is also 
useful when, during the course of scarlatina, the parotid glands swell 
and suppurate, after the failure of Rhus. 

Arsenicum is useful in gangrene, particularly in the dry gangrene 
of old people, with great soreness and burning in the affected part, 
with relief from warm or hot applications. This modality furnishes 
you with a sufficient distinction between Arsenic and another great 
gangrene remedy, Secale, which is useful in dry gangrene, with relief 
from cold applications. Lachesis is one of the best remedies for gan- 
grene after injuries, as when the edges of a lacerated wound turn 
black. 



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Cinchojia suits in gangrene with haemorrhage or after great loss of 
blood. 

We may use Arsenicum in carbuncles or in boils with pepper-box 
openings and dipping deeply into the cellular tissues. It is indicated 
by the character of the pains, which you know run all through the 
Arsenicum symptoms, cutting, lancinating, burning pains, with aggra- 
vation after midnight, and irritability of mind and body. 

Arsenicum sometimes fails in carbuncles. Then we have to resort 
to Anthracinum, chiefly in the thirtieth potency. It has precisely the 
same symptoms as Arsenicum, but to a more intense degree. 

Phytolacca is a remedy to be thought of in this affection when there 
are lancinating, jerking pains. It is said to promote suppuration. 

Carbo veg. and Lachesis are remedies that we neglect in this disease. 
If we use Carbo veg. it is well also to use a charcoal poultice over the 
carbuncle. 

Arsenicum may be used in cancer. I am not going to propose that 
this drug will cure cancer. Epithelioma has been cured by Conium, 
Hydrastis, Arsenic, Clematis and a few other remedies. But in cases 
of genuine open cancer I have not seen any cases cured; but even if 
these cases cannot be cured, it is still possible to give them some relief. 
The pains of cancer you know to be torture. They are of a sharp 
lancinating character; a red hot knife thrust into the part could not 
be worse. Arsenic sometimes relieves these cases when indicated. 

In some cases Arsenicum iod. relieves when Arsenicum album fails. 
In others Belladonna brings relief. 

The ulcers for which Arsenicum may be given are not usually very 
deep. They are rather superficial. The pains are of the character 
already described, burning and lancinating. The discharge is apt to 
be excoriating, dark and sanious and they are apt to bleed very readily. 

Lastly, we will consider Arsenicum as a remedy in nervous affec- 
tions. It is indicated in hemicrania when the pains are worse over one 
e3^e, and are of a severe lancinating character. They often alternate 
with colic or affections of the liver. They are worse from any motion, 
and are temporarily relieved by cold applications. 

It may also be used in epilepsy. The patient falls down uncon- 
scious, and then writhes in convulsions. Before the attack he has 
spells of vertigo and intense aching in the occiput. The convulsions 
are followed by stupor, which, however, is not complete, but is broken 
by the ever present restlessness. 
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LECTURE LIV. 

PHOSPHORUS. 

Nux vom., Coffea, Ambra. 
Rhus tox., Muriatic acid, Iyachesis. 
Carbo veg., Arsenicum, Nitric ac, Kali carb. 
China, Veratr. alb. 
. Sulphur, Calcarea ostr., Silicea, Lycopod., Calcarea 

phosphorus, i phos 

Cepa, Bryonia. 
Zinc. 

Terebinthina. 
Osmium. 

>Nux vomica, Terebinthina. 
<Causticum. 

This hour I wish to say a few words about Phosphorus. It has two 
complements, Arsenicum and Allium cepa. I have placed Nux vomica 
and Terebinthina as the antidotes. The use of Terebinthina comes to 
us from the old school. It seems to antidote Phosphorus by chemical 
action in rendering it inert. It also has antidotal effects when used in 
potency. Nux vomica is good when Phosphorus, as a remedy, has 
produced over-effects, or when it has been incorrectly given. 

In the study of Phosphorus we have to remember, first of all, as 
most important and as a quality that permeates every part of the Phos- 
phorus proving, its action on the nervous system. Its symptoms in no 
instance point to increase of power or vitality, or to any genuine 
stimulation of function, but rather to that condition which we found 
under Arsenic, irritable weakness. The patient is exceedingly sus- 
ceptible to external impressions. He can bear neither light, sounds 
nor odors; he is very sensitive to touch. Electric changes such as 
occur in sudden changes of the weather, but particularly in a thunder- 
storm, make him anxious and fearful, and aggravate all existing 
symptoms. His mind, too, is excitable and impressionable. He is 
easily angered and becomes vehement. This is not a simple peevish- 
ness. He actually gets beside himself with anger, and, just like the 



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Nux and the Chamomilla patient, he suffers physically in consequence. 
At other times he is anxious and restless, especially in the dark or 
about twilight. He has all sorts of fanciful or imaginary notions. He 
sees faces grinning at him from every corner of the room. His 
thoughts may be so stimulated that they fairly rush through his mind; 
but this effect is only transient, and followed either by inability to 
think and remember, or by aggravation of all his symptoms on mental 
exertion. He cannot stand mental tax. Here again ft impinges on 
Nux vomica. As further evidence of the irritable weakness of Phos- 
phorus, we have the delirium of that remedy. Now this delirium may 
be associated with typhoid fever, with jaundice, or with sexual 
erethism. It may be quite violent. It is characterized by a condition 
of ecstacy. The patient has a notion that his body is all in fragments, 
and he wonders how he is going to get the pieces together. He imag- 
ines that he is a great person surrounded by grand accoutrements, 
the mania of grandeur it is sometimes termed. At other times the 
mania takes the form of sexual excitement. He uncovers his person 
without any shame and seeks to gratify his sexual appetite, no matter 
who may be the victim. These delirious attacks pass into a state of 
coma, or into stupid condition of mind or state of apathy, during 
which he answers questions not at all or very reluctantly. Phosphorus 
is here very similar to Hyoscyamus, and often follows that remedy to 
erotic mania. It also bears points of resemblance to Stravionium, 
Bapfisia, Rhus fox. and Muriatic acid. 

The same quality of the drug is shown in the symptoms throughout 
the body. Headache, for instance, is attended with increased sensi- 
tiveness to odors; the sense of smell is very acute, so that the patient 
faints away from the smell of flowers. There may be pulsating, throb- 
bing headache, worse from music. The hearing for the sound of the 
human voice is imparled; associated with this is roaring in the ears, as 
from rush of blood. Sounds reverberate unpleasantly in the ears. 
There is also sexual excitement with frequent erections, lascivious 
thoughts entirely beyond the control of the patient, and frequent 
seminal emissions during sleep. 

Symptoms of the spinal irritation are very characteristic of Phosphortts. 
These are associated with palpitation of the heart, worse from any 
emotion, whether it be grief, anger or pleasure. The spine, as in all 
these cases of spinal irritation, is exceedingly sensitive to touch. With 
all this there is a weakness of the spine. The back feels weak, as if it 



564 A CT.INICAIv MATERIA MEDICA. 

would soon give out. There is weakness of the limbs, with trembling, 
on beginning to walk. The patient stumbles a great deal, catching 
his toes in every little projection of the floor or pavement. He totters, 
and there seems to be imperfect coordination. He is sleepless from 
excessive heat. When asleep, his dreams are of a horribly exciting 
character. These are illustrations of the erethism of Phosphorus and 
also of diminished resistence to external stimulants. Such persons 
may degenerate into various diseased conditions. The loss of animal 
fluids, as blood, semen, or milk, or too frequent child-bearing, or too 
rapid growth in the young, is sufficient to precipitate nervous diseases 
such as paralysis, chorea and spinal disease, or tuberculosis. 

You will find Phosphorus indicated in locomotor ataxia, when there 
is a great deal of burning along the spine. There is also great ting- 
ling and formication along the spine and in the affected extremities. 
In the beginning the patients have extreme sexual excitement. That 
is a sort of sine qua non, either that they are excessively excitable, or 
else have been so. 

You seldom find Phosphorus indicated in impotence, unless it has 
resulted or has been preceded by over-excitation of the sexual organs. 
This is a valuable hint. I find it especially indicated in young men 
who are trying to restrain their natural passion, and yet there is locally 
this erethism. This Phosphorus helps most wonderfully to control? 
If, by reason of celibacy or of over-indulgence in sexual pleasures, the 
sexual organs lose their power and the patient becomes impotent, Phos- 
phorus is the remedy when this has been preceded by over-excitation. 
It is different from Conium, in which the patient may have been natu- 
rally excitable, but has gone on to this weakness. 

Phosphorus is indicated in locomotor ataxia also, when it can be traced 
to excessive loss of animal fluids, as semen.' 

Softening of the brain is another form of atrophy of the nervous 
tissue in which Phosphorus has won many laurels. The patient has a 
dull pain in the head, a wearied, tired feeling all the time, and slight 
difficulty in walking. It is particularly indicated after the use of Nux 
vomica. The question is sometimes asked, and quite properly, too, 
how can you put Nux vomica down as the antidote of Phosphorus, and 
then speak of it as a remedy that can precede or follow it? First, the 
antidote may follow the drug and may be needed, not to antidote it, 
but because symptoms which come up have an opposite polarity, and, 
consequently, require an opposite remedy; and, secondly, a remedy 
may be antidotal in some of its symptoms and concordant in others. 



PHOSPHORUS. 565 

Phosphorus may be used very successfully in chorea when it occurs 
in children who are growing too fast. The patient is very weak and 
walks as if paralyzed. 

Continuing the nervous symptoms of Phosphorus still further, we 
find it indicated in low types of nervous fever and in typhoid types of 
fever. I am induced to use this expression, typhoid types of fever, in 
order to show that you can consider Phosphorus, not only in typhoid 
or typhus fever, but in any form of fever which assumes a typhoid 
form when these symptoms appear. It is indicated when there is great 
cerebro-spinal exhaustion. It is particularly the brain and spine 
which seem to have suffered from typhoid poison. The face is apt to 
be of an ashy or waxen hue or appearance. The tongue is covered 
with a viscid, thready sort of slime, which is expectorated with great 
difficulty. It seems to collect on the teeth and around the gums and 
on the tongue. It is tenacious and the patient is weak; and these two 
incompatibles make it difficult for him to cleanse the mouth. The 
body is hot. — and by the body I mean the trunk, — the head being 
rather cool and the limbs decidedly cold. There is congestion of both 
chest and abdomen. The breath is hot, and there is almost always 
either bronchial catarrh or pneumonia. I refer now more particularly 
to the pneumonic infiltration which belongs to typhoid fever, in which 
case Phosphorus is often indicated. The patient has burning thirst, 
which is relieved by drinking cold water. The thirst is worse from 
three to six o'clock in the afternoon. The patient is better from cold 
water until the water becomes warm in the stomach, when it is 
violently ejected. Phosphorus does not often do any good in vomiting, 
except in the chronic vomiting of dyspeptics, unless this condition is 
present. 

This is quite different from Arsenic. It is also very different from 
Bismuth, this last-named remedy has vomiting immediately after taking 
food, with burning, cardialgic pains. 

It is different from Kreosote, which has vomiting of undigested food 
hours after eating. 

Let us return to Phosphorus in typhoid types of fever. The bowels are 
always affected. You will find that the liver is sore to the touch and 
usually enlarged. This is also true of the spleen. The patient has diar- 
rhoea as soon as he eats. Here it is identical with Arsenic. Now, the 
stools in the Phosphorus case are flaky, dark, and often bloody, and there 
is extreme weakness after stool, that being a decided cerebro-spinal 



566 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

symptom. You find it in the cerebro-spinal remedies, in Conium, in 
Nux vomica, and especially in Phosphorus. When there is constipa- 
tion you may have what has been called characteristically " dog stool," 
i. e., long, slender stool, which is evacuated with considerable effort. 
During this fever, which I say is mostly congestive and affects the 
chest and abdomen, the patient continually throws off the bed-clothes. 
He puts the arms out of bed to cool off. There is profuse sweat which 
does not relieve. Now I would like to caution you here that Mercury 
is not indicated in typhoid fever unless there be clearly defined icteroid 
symptoms, consequently you will not often have occasion to give it in 
this fever, and never should you give it for this symptom, "profuse 
sweat without relief, ' ' unless it is so well defined by the icteroid and 
bowel symptoms that you are certain that you have the properly indi- 
cated remedy. Other remedies than Mercury have this symptom, 
notably Phosphorus, and also Rhus tox. and Chamomilla , the latter par- 
ticularly in children. Phosphorus is indicated even in extreme cases of 
typhoid fever when there is threatening paralysis of the lungs. The 
patient lies in a sort of coma, with hot breath and rattling breathing. 
It seems as if there was a large quantity of phlegm rattling in the 
lungs. The limbs are cold and are covered with a cold sweat. The 
pulse is scarcely perceptible. 

I would here remind you of Carbo veg. as also being suitable in col- 
lapse. It follows Phosphorus very well. It is distinguished, theoretic- 
ally at least, from the latter remedy by this: Phosphorus acts more 
upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system and Carbo veg. more upon the 
sympathetic nerves, particularly on the solar plexus. 

Next I wish to speak to you of a property of Phosphorus which 
does not depend upon the action of the drug on the nervous system, 
and that is the power of the drug to produce fatty degeneration. 
Phosphorus seems to affect the blood, how is not exactly known. It 
decomposes the blood, rendering it more fluid, rendering it difficult to 
coagulate. At the same time it produces hyperemia of one part or 
another. Thus you will find tendency to congestion of the head or 
of any of the viscera of the body. This hyperemia is not an active 
arterial congestion, but rather a stasis of blood. The affected part be- 
comes engorged with blood, and as this is of an impoverished quality, 
it does not nourish properly and we have setting-in fatty degeneration 
of the part. This may be in the brain or spine (of this I have already 
spoken), it may be in the heart or lungs, but it is especially apt to 



PHOSPHORUS. 567 

occur in the liver and kidneys. The muscles even may undergo fatty 
degeneration. 

On the liver, Phosphorus acts very prominently. The symptoms 
here are directly connected with fatty degeneration. When Phospho- 
rus is taken for a long time you will find at first this hyperemia of the 
liver. That organ is consequently enlarged with the attendant symp- 
toms, well-marked soreness and jaundice. The stools are apt to be 
grayish-white, showing the absence of the secretion of bile. The ab- 
domen becomes decidedly tympanitic. By and by, the jaundice in- 
creases to an alarming extent, the pulse becomes weak and thread- 
like. These symptoms are traceable to two causes: first, the inevit- 
able alterations in the blood which Phosphorus produces; and secondly, 
the poisoning of the blood by the retention within it of the elements 
which go to make bile. These have a depressing effect on the heart, 
making the pulse slow or else weak and thread-like. If you examine 
the liver at this stage, you find that it is beginning to atrophy, this 
atrophy depending upon destruction of the hepatic cells proper and 
increase of the stroma of the liver. The connective-tissue framework 
of the liver has undergone inflammatory increase. The pressure 
which this exerts on the hepatic cells causes their destruction. Thus 
we have what has been termed cirrhosis of the liver. Then comes 
ascites, and you find varicose veins coursing all over the abdomen. 
The blood becomes so poisoned that the patient goes into the delirium 
which I have already described. The urine may be highly albumi- 
nous in these cases. The icteroid symptoms increase and, finally, 
death ensues. 

Phosphorus is useful in acute yellow atrophy of the liver, a condi- 
tion which it also produces. 

Again, it may be useful in fatty degeneration of the liver as a sequel 
of heart disease. It may also be indicated in waxy liver dependent 
upon long-lasting bone disease, as caries of the vertebra or of the hip- 
joint. 

Phosphorus is also indicated in hepatitis when suppuration ensues 
with hectic fever, night sweats, enlargement in the right hypochon- 
drium, and marked soreness over the liver. 

The jaundice of Phosphorus is not functional in origin, but is indi- 
cative of organic disease; it is associated with anaemia, with brain dis- 
ease, with pregnancy or with malignant diseases of the liver. 

Phosphorus has a marked action on the alimentary tract. The 



568 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

tongue is coated white, and this, as under Bryonia, is more along the 
middle of the organ. With bilious affections, the tongue is coated 
yellow; in typhoid affections, it is brownish or blackish and very dry. 
Here it is very much like Rhus. The throat and adjacent parts may 
be inflamed, particularly the uvula. White, transparent mucus col- 
lects in the throat. The patient is very hungry, particularly at night. 
This S5^mptom may almost amount to bulimy, which is also an indica- 
tion for Phosphorus in chills and fever. He wakes up hungry and lies 
awake until he gets something to eat. There is longing for cold 
things, ice-cream, ice-water, etc. Cold food seems to relieve until it 
gets warm in the stomach, when there appears the characteristic 
vomiting of the remedy. Phosphorus may cure vomiting in chronic 
dyspepsia when there seems to be simple exhaustion of the stomach. 
Perhaps the inner surface of the viscus is coated with mucus, thus 
preventing the action of the gastric juice on the food. 

We also find Phosphorus useful in spasmodic stricture of the oesoph- 
agus, especially at its cardiac end. Food seems to go down a certain 
distance and then it is violently ejected. 

Coming to the stomach itself, we find Phosphorus indicated in that 
very dangerous disease, perforating ulcer of the stomach. We find it 
there indicated by the pain, by the vomiting of food as soon as swal- 
lowed, and by the vomited matters containing a dark, grumous, semi- 
solid substance looking like coffee-grounds. 

We also find Phosphorus indicated by these same symptoms in cancer 
of the stomach, particularly when it is about to pass into the stage of 
ulceration. 

Phosphorus is one of the few remedies that act on the pancreas. It 
is especially useful if there be fatty degeneration of that organ. The 
symptoms indicating it here are the gastric symptoms just enumerated, 
and oily stool. Sometimes the stool looks like frog spawn, or, to 
speak more accurately, like cooked sago. Phosphorus may also be 
remembered in diabetes mellitus and Bright' s disease when these have 
been preceded or are accompanied by disease of the pancreas. 

The intestinal tract is attacked by Phosphorus almost as violently as 
it is by Arsenicum. It produces constipation, the character of which 
I have already explained to you. It also produces diarrhoea. The 
stools may be profuse and watery, and worse in the morning. Here it 
runs against Sulphur and Podophyllum. It also produces green mucous 
stools, worse in the morning. The stools are apt to contain undigested 



PHOSPHORUS. 569 

food and are very debilitating to the patient. We find Phosphorus in- 
dicated in cholerine, or diarrhoea occurring in time of cholera epidemics. 
Paralysis of the bowels is also produced and cured by Phosphorus, 
particularly when the lower portions of the bowels, the colon and 
rectum, are affected. The anus seems to stand wide open and exudes 
moisture. 

In diseases of the urinary organs Phosphorus is a first-class remedy. 
It is to be thought of in the diseases classed under the general term, 
Bright' s disease. It is useful in fatty or in amyloid degeneration of 
the kidneys, especialty if associated with a similar pathological condi- 
tion of the liver and of the right or venous heart, with the consequent 
symptoms of venous stagnation and venous r^persemia in different 
organs, with oedema of the lungs and all the symptoms of pulmonary 
engorgement which indicate pneumonia. The urine contains epithelial, 
fatty or waxy casts. 

Phosphorus may cure haemorrhages from any part of the body, par- 
ticularly from the lungs and stomach when associated with Bright' s 
disease. 

Phosphorus is a decided irritant to the sexual organs in either sex, 
producing nymphomania in the female and satyriasis or uncontrollable 
sexual desire in the male. 

It does not affect the female organs very prominently. The menstrual 
discharges seem to be altered. They are often too profuse and long- 
lasting, the menstrual blood being too pale. There is always a weep- 
ing, sad mood at that time. However, we find Phosphorus indicated 
more when the menses are checked; amenorrhcea when vicarious 
blood-spitting, epistaxis or hsematuria ensues. 

In diseases of the mammary gland, Phosphorus is especially useful 
when abscesses have formed. The inflamed gland has an erysipelatous 
appearance. Red streaks radiate from the opening in the abscess. 
The pus discharged is not laudable, but is of a thin, watery, ichorous 
character. Here it is complementary to Silzcea, and very similar to 
Belladonna. 

Next we take up the action of Phosphorus on the respiratory passages. 
In nasal catarrh we do not find it often indicated except it be chronic 
catarrh or ozsena. Then it is indicated by the color of the discharge, 
which is green mucus and blood-streaked. Green mucus not blood- 
streaked does not often require Phosphorus. 

Nasal polypus, when it bleeds much, calls for Phosphorus. It may 



570 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

also be used in polypi of the ears or uterus. Other remedies to be 
thought of here are Teucrium, Calcarea, Calcarea phos., Thuja and 
Sa?iguinaria. 

On the larynx it acts more prominently than any other remedy we 
have. The symptoms indicating it here are hoarseness, which is 
usually worse in the evening, at which time it may amount to aphonia, 
and extreme sensitiveness of the larynx. The patient is worse from 
talking or coughing. It hurts the larynx for him to cough or talk, so 
sensitive is it to the vibrations thus produced. 

It also causes catarrhal and membranous croup, but it is not usually 
indicated here in the beginning. But it acts as a sort of prophylactic 
to prevent the return of the disease. It is useful also in advanced 
cases of croup when the cerebro-spinal system is giving out, just as we 
found in typhoid states. Thus there are aphonia, rapid sinking of 
strength, cold, clammy sweat, rattling breathing, sunken, pale face 
and dropping of the lower jaw. The pulse in such cases is weak, 
thready and intermittent. In this group of symptoms Phosphorus is 
very similar to Lycopodium. 

You find Phosphorus indicated in tracheitis and bronchitis, especially 
in tall, slender persons of rather tuberculous habit or tendency, rather 
inclined to stoop and to be hollow- chested. The cough is particularly 
worse on going from the warm room into the cold air, or in changes 
from warm to cold. It has dry, tickling cough caused by irritation in 
the larynx and beneath the sternum. In extreme cases it is associated 
with tremor of the whole body, so nervously weak is the patient. It 
is frequently accompanied by almost intolerable pain in the larynx 
from laryngeal catarrh, by splitting pain in the head just as you found 
under Bryonia, and by burning rawness down the larynx and trachea. 
There is tightness across the upper third of the lungs. Now, a word 
of caution respecting this tightness. It is not a feeling as from a band 
around the chest, but as though the lungs themselves were con- 
stricted. 

The relation between the fauces, larynx and trachea, as a starting 
point for cough, has been aptty mapped out by Dr. Dunham and care- 
fully distributed among three remedies. For instance, Belladonna acts 
upon the fauces. It causes dry, tickling, teasing cough. The throat 
is bright red and the tonsils enlarged. 

Going further down, you find tickling in the suprasternal fossa. 
Every change in the breathing causes cough. This condition calls for 
Rumex. 



PHOSPHORUS. 571 

When the irritation extends down still further, into the bronchi, 
then Phosphorus becomes the remedy. 

We find Phosphorus indicated in a great variety of coughs. Thus it 
is useful in stomach or hepatic cough coming on after the patient 
eats, and starting from tickling at the pit of the stomach. It is also 
indicated in cough made worse by the entrance of a stranger into the 
room ; this being purely a reflex nervous symptom. It is also called 
for in cough provoked by strong odors. In fact, perfumes or anything 
that will disturb the balance of the nervous system will bring on cough 
under Phosphorus. 

Phosphorus is indicated in bronchitis or bronchial catarrh, whether 
the disease involves the bronchial tubes high up or whether it extends 
down into the bronchioles. The symptoms are as follows: cough, with 
tearing pain under the sternum, as if something were being torn loose; 
suffocative pressure in the upper part of the chest, with constriction of 
the larynx. You will also find the lungs to be engorged with blood, 
mucous rales through the chest, panting and labored respiration and 
even emphysema. The sputa are of various kind. Thus we may have 
bloody and mucous sputum. Very characteristic is sputum, consisting 
of yellowish mucus, with streaks of blood running through it. It may 
be rust-colored, as in pneumonia, or it may be purulent and have a 
sweetish or salty taste. 

In pneumonia, Phosphorus is indicated when the bronchial symp- 
toms are prominent. Then it is almost certain to be the remedy. It 
does not cause hepatization of the lungs, so that it would not be indi- 
cated when the lung or lungs are in a complete state of hepatization. 
But it may be indicated for typhoid symptoms in the course of pneu- 
monia (these symptoms I have already given to you), especially in the 
latter part of the period of deposit and in the early part of absorption, 
that is, just when hepatization is coming on and just when it is going 
off. There is great dryness of the air-passages, with burning, excoriat- 
ing, raw feeling in the upper part of the chest. 

In tuberculosis you find Phosphorus indicated particularly in youths, 
and by this expression I mean both young men and women who have 
grown too rapidly, who have delicate skin, long silky eyelashes, and 
who are of easy, graceful manners. The mental development is excel- 
lent, yet they have not the physique to support this keenness of mind. 
Particularly is it indicated if they have a hereditary tendency to con- 
sumption, or have had bone diseases in early childhood. The early 



572 A CLJNICAE MATERIA MEDIC A. 

symptoms, you will notice, are these: the patient catches cold easily; 
he suffers from rush of blood to the chest; he has the above-mentioned 
constriction across the chest with every little cold; pains through the 
apex of the left lung; cannot lie on the left side; aphonia; dry cough; 
hectic flush of the cheeks, particularly towards evening; oppression of 
the chest at night, forcing him to sit up: empty feeling at the pit of 
the stomach, particularly in the forenoon at ten or eleven o'clock; he 
awakens hungry at night, feeling that he must eat, and that he would 
faint if he did not. Finally, the hectic fever grows more prominent. 
There is rapid formation of vomicse or cavities in the lungs. These 
are the indications for Phosphorus in pneumonia, and I must supple- 
ment them with a warning. Unless you give the drug cautiously, you 
precipitate what you would prevent. Be certain that it is the remedy, 
and do not give it too often, or you will hasten the process you are 
anxious to avoid. I would not advise you to give Phosphorus in well- 
marked tuberculous patients. If tubercles have been deposited in the 
lungs, you should hesitate before giving it, unless the " picture" call- 
ing for it is so strong that you cannot possibly make a mistake. 

I may say that the same is true also of Sulphur. Sulphur is adapted 
to the onset of the disease. Then, a dose or two allowed to act will 
frequently head these symptoms off. But after tubercles have been 
deposited, you must be careful how you use the drug. 

I would next say a few words about the action of Phosphorus on the 
heart. It is particularly indicated in affections of this organ when the 
right side of the heart is involved more than the left. Its symptoms 
point more to the bad results that follow disease of the right heart 
than disease of the left; in a word, venous stagnation. It is suited to 
all forms of palpitation; palpitation from emotion, as from the sudden 
entrance into the room of an unexpected visitor, welcome or unwelcome; 
from motion; and also from rush of blood to the chest. Particularly 
does this latter occur in the rapidly-growing young. 

Phosphorus must also be remembered in endocarditis, in which 
disease it is often forgotten. Particularly is it indicated when endo- 
carditis or myocarditis occurs during the course of acute inflammatory 
rheumatism or during pneumonia. 

Phosphorus is also useful for fatty degeneration of the heart. You 
distinguish it from Arsenicum by the involvement of the right heart, 
by venous stagnation and pufifiness of the face, particularly under 
the eyelids. Arsenicum has more symptoms of the left heart, more 



phosphorus. 573 

oppression of the chest in breathing, more orthopncea, and more ana- 
sarca or general dropsy. 

Phosphorus acts upon the bones. We find this illustrated in the 
necrosis of the lower jaw, formerly so common among matchmakers. 
The fumes of the Phosphorus cause necrosis of the lower and some- 
times of the upper jaw. You may ask, is this not a local effect pro- 
duced by inhalation of the fumes ? If it is a local effect, why does 
it affect by preference the lower jaw? Why not the upper? But, 
when persons have been poisoned by eating Phosphorus , if necrosis re- 
sults, it is the lower jaw that is affected, thus showing you that the 
drug has a special affinity for this bone. It is to be remembered in 
caries or necrosis of the lower jaw. This you sometimes meet with 
from teething or from an inflamed or suppurating gland. Phosphorus 
affects other bones as well as the lower jaw, however. We find it not 
infrequently indicated in caries of the vertebra in scrofulous children. 
The concomitant symptoms have to decide the remedy for you. For 
instance, the child is of the characteristic Phosphorus build. There is 
diarrhoea, worse in the morning, much like that of Sulphur, the stool 
containing undigested food. There is tendency to involvement of the 
lungs. For instance, the patient catches cold easily, with marked 
tendency to bronchitis. Still further, we may be called upon to use 
Phosphorus in caries of the vertebra when the inflammation has extended 
inwards and involved the spinal cord itself. This you notice to be ex- 
pressed first by burning in certain portions of the spine. The patient 
cannot tolerate any heat near the back. A hot sponge on the back 
causes him to wince. There will be a feeling as of a band around the 
body. The difficulty in walking increases until finally the child can- 
not walk at all. There is often partial loss of control over the 
sphincters. 

Phosphorus also affects the joints, the hip and knee-joints in par- 
ticular. Hence, it may be indicated in morbus coxarius or in white 
swelling, both common, as you know, in scrofulous children. Here, 
too, you have to separate it from the other antipsorics by the general 
symptoms. I would say, for your guidance, that Phosphorus belongs 
with Silicea and seems to complement it. It is useful when Silicea has 
been partially successful in these joint-diseases. 

Fistulae in the glands and about the joints are apt to form with Phos- 
phorus. These fistulous ulcers have high edges from exuberant 
granulations, the purulent discharge being rather thin and ichorous. 



574 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Around the ulcer Phosphorus has, probably more than Silicea, an 
erysipelatous blush, often radiating as in Belladonna. There will 
frequently be burning, stinging pains, well-marked hectic fever with 
night sweat, diarrhoea, and anxiety towards evening. 

These same symptoms apply to inflammation of the mammary glands 
when there are fistulous ulcers, as in Silicea, but distinguished from 
that remedy by the erysipelatous blush. 

Burning and stinging pains also suggest Apis, but Apis does not 
cause deep-seated suppuration, such as that in the parenchyma of an 
organ. 

Next, I wish to say a word about the action of Phosphorus on the 
eyes. While it may not be the best remedy for affections of the ex- 
ternal parts of the eye, it certainly does lead the list for diseases in- 
volving the deeper structures of that organ, as the retina, choroid and 
vitreous humor. It is particularly in nervous affections of the eye 
that we find Phosphorus indicated, and by " nervous" I mean belong- 
ing to the nerves of the eye. Thus it is suited to hyperemia of the 
choroid and retina, which may even result in retinitis or choroiditis, 
and when it does so result, it is apt to be a serious trouble. Vision is 
greatly lessened. The patient sees all sorts of abnormal colors, black 
spots in the air and gray veils over things; it seems as if he were con- 
stantly looking through a mist or fog. Objects look red. Letters ap- 
pear red when reading. That symptom, I believe, is under no other 
remedy but Phosphorus. Other remedies have red vision, but under 
Phosphorus alone is it that in reading the letters look red. 

This remedy is also indicated in retinitis accompanying kidney 
affections, retinitis albuminuria. 

It may also be indicated in retinitis with suppression of menses or 
some other uterine or ovarian disorder. When you have an eye affec- 
tion to deal with do not forget that the eyes are not the whole body. 
Remember that lesion in the eye may have as a starting point, disease 
in some other part of the body. Therefore, in making your prescrip- 
tion, do not forget to look for the constitutional symptoms that may 
be present. 

We also find Phosphorus indicated in either amblyopia or asthenopia, 
particularly when associated with Bright' s disease or resulting from 
loss of fluids. When the patient attempts to read the letters blur and 
run together, and the eyes smart and burn. It is useful in amblyopia 
occurring after typhoid fever, sexual excesses or loss of fluids. It is 



phosphorus. 575 

also suited to blindness after lightning-stroke. In these cases the 
patient almost always sees a green halo around the candle-light. 

I would like to say that Phosphorus will retard the growth of cata- 
ract. Other remedies that may suggest themselves in this condition 
are Silicea, Baryta carb., Conium, Seca/e, Natrum mur., Calcarea ostr. 
and Magnesium carb. 

In addition to producing oversensitiveness to sound, as already 
mentioned, Phosphorus has the opposite effect, deafness or hardness of 
hearing, particular^ for the sound of the human voice. We have 
exactly the opposite symptom under Ignatia. This deafness may be 
purely nervous, as after typhoid fever. It may also indicate the drug 
in congested states when the hardness of hearing is associated with 
buzzing and roaring in the ears. 

Phosphorus acts on the blood, destroying its coagulability. Thus it 
is that small wounds bleed much. I think that these are the words of 
the symptom as Hahnemann gave it to us. The way that he found 
that to be characteristic of Phosphorus was this: one prover noticed 
that when he pricked his finger it was difficult to stop the bleeding. 
Hahnemann put this down as a possible symptom of Phosphorus. 
Later, a patient came to him, and described the totality of her symp- 
toms. She had this bleeding. He gave her Phosphorus which cured 
her. Since then this drug has been used many times for this hsemor- 
rhagic diathesis. Lachesis has a similar symptom, but has not been so 
thoroughly confirmed as has Phosphorus. 

Phosphorus is also indicated in haematemesis. This may be vicari- 
ous as from a suppressed menstrual flow, or it may result from simple 
congestion of the stomach, or even from organic disease of the stomach, 
particularly open cancer or round ulcer of the stomach. The vomited 
matters contain dark grumous substances, looking like coffee-grounds. 

Phosphorus may also be used in haemoptysis, when indicated by the 
symptoms already given. 



LECTURE LV. 

THE PREPARATIONS OF ANTIMONY. 

f Depresses the heart and circulation. 
I Increases sweat. 
Antimony. <j Mucous membranes: — catarrhs. 

I Nausea, vomiting, purging, fainting, collapse. 
[ Skin: — rash; pustules. 

Wk take up for study to-day two of the preparations of antimony, 
Antimonium crudum and Antimonium iartaricum. The term A7itimo- 
nium crudum does not imply that it is the metallic antimony but that 
it is the ore, the form in which it is most frequently found in nature. 
Antimonium tartaricum is a compound salt the tartrate of antimony 
and potash. There are other Antimony preparations used in medicine, 
but we shall only consider the above-named as they are the most im- 
portant. 

Antimony exerts a depressing influence on the heart and circulation. 
Respiration too is disturbed by it, and in the majority of cases, perspi- 
ration is increased. The next important seat of action of antimony is 
the mucous membranes, particularly that of the alimentary canal. It 
causes nausea, vomiting and purging, with faintness and relaxation. 
The vomited matters you will find at first to consist of mucus and 
food. I^ater they contain bile, and finally blood. It is not because 
antimony has a special effect on the liver that we have this bilious 
vomiting, but because it causes a regurgitation of bile. Cramps occur 
in the limbs. These are accompanied by purging and thus you have 
a perfect picture of collapse such as you find in cholera or cholera 
morbus. Now, the emetic properties of antimony are not local. Ex- 
periments have been made by which the stomach has been extirpated, 
a bladder placed in its stead, and antimony injected into the blood. 
Retching will ensue, and yet there is no stomach. It therefore acts 
through the pneumogastric nerves. 

Antimony will cause convulsions. This convulsive action is trace- 
able to disturbance in the circulation at the base of the brain. 



THE PREPARATIONS OF ANTIMONY. 577 

The lungs become engorged with blood by any preparation of anti- 
mony. It is said that hepatization of a portion of the organ may fol- 
low poisoning by it, especially by its tartrate. This has been doubted 
of late. It has been claimed that this so-called hepatization was in 
reality atalectasis. 

You also find antimony causing emphysema, particularly of the 
borders of the lungs. 

Animals fed on antimonic acid will have fatty degeneration of the 
liver, heart, etc. 

The skin is attacked by the antimonies. The irritation they here 
produce is rather slow and tardy, but the result is very characteristic. 
There will be, at first, slight redness; this is followed by development 
of papules, and these papules become pustules. Pustular eruptions 
are very characteristic of antimony, particularly of the tartrate. 
These pustules resemble the eruption of small-pox, so much so that 
Antimonium tartaricum has been used as a remedy in that disease, and 
with success. 

Antimony is particularly useful when pustules appear about the 
genital organs, whether they be syphilitic or not. 

While the preponderance is in favor of Antimonium iartaricum for 
pustulation, Antimonium crudum carries off the palm for horny ex- 
crescences and callosities on the feet and hands. 

We will now consider 

Antimonium Crudum. 

Bryonia, Ipecac, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla. 

Chamomilla. 
Antimonium 011- a • TT 

, \ Sulphur, Arsenicum, Hepar. 

Ranunculus bulbosus. 

iEthusa cynapium. 

In the above schema I have placed no complementary remedy to 
Antimonium crudum. Scilla has been said to be complementary to it, 
but I have not satisfied myself that such is the case. 

When Antimonium crudum is indicated, we find mental symptoms 

that are quite prominent. It is frequently used in children when they 

are cross and peevish. They will not even permit themselves to be 

looked at. If an adult, the patient is sulky or sad, almost like the 

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578 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Pulsatilla patient. In some cases, there is a slightly erotic condition 
of mind, connected with sexual erethism. The patient becomes ecstatic 
and fancies that some beautiful female is the object of his sentimental 
love. 

In children, this peevish mental state is associated with nausea, 
hot and red face and irregular pulse. The child is particularly cross 
when washed in cold water, but not so much in warm water. Now, 
the symptoms often occur in children in association with those of the 
stomach. 

The gastric symptoms of Antimony are very well marked. It is 
suited to gastric catarrh, whether it be developed from cold or from 
improper food. In the first place, the tongue is coated white, and this 
coating is apt to be spread uniformly over the whole dorsum of the 
tongue. It has well been compared to a coat of whitewash. The 
tongue may be dry, and often is so, as in Bryonia. Sometimes, we find 
this white coating assuming a slightly yellowish tinge, especially on 
the back part of the tongue. At other times, you will find the borders 
of the tongue sore and red; often, there is an accumulation of yellow- 
ish mucus in the pharynx. There are nausea and vomiting; the latter 
is very prominent, and occurs as soon as the child eats or drinks. 
Antimonium crudum is especially useful in vomiting from overloaded 
stomach; from eating indigestible substances; after the abuse of fat 
food, acids, sour wines, vinegar, etc., or from the excessive heat of 
summer. The vomited matters contain food; or, in the case of very 
young children, they consist of curdled milk. The appetite is im- 
paired. There may be colic, in which case there is almost always a 
deposit of lithic acid in the urine. The bowels are affected also; there 
is often diarrhoea; the stool is watery and contains little lumps of faecal 
matter. This diarrhoea is made worse by vinegar and other acids, by 
cold bathing and by being overheated. If there is constipation, as is 
often the case when vomiting predominates, the stools will consist of 
white, hard and dry lumps that look like undigested curd. In older 
persons, particularly in the aged, for Antimonium crudum suits both 
extremes of life, we have an alternation of constipation and diarrhoea: 
the stool, in constipation consisting of hard, dry lumps; that in diar- 
rhoea, of water mixed with faecal lumps. 

Now let us make some distinctions between Antimonium crudum and 
its concordant remedies. sEthusa cynapium is our mainstay for vomit- 
ing of curdled milk in infants during dentition, or at other times. 



THE PREPARATIONS OF ANTIMONY. 579 

The vomited matter comes with a "rush," and the vomiting exhausts 
the little patient. It then falls into a sleep from which it awakens 
hungry, eats and again vomits. In Antimonium crudum, the child 
is hungry as soon as it rids itself of the milk. Ai.thusa is suited to 
severe cases that have been prostrated by a long course of bad diet, by 
summer complaint or by the irritation of teething. I have known 
sEthusa to relieve the pain and soreness in the gums of teething 
children when vomiting is a prominent symptom. 

Like Antimonium crudum, Ipecacuanha has vomiting after a meal, 
after coughing and after acids; and hence it is suited to similar cases. 
But Ipecacuanha usually has more nausea than has the other. Vom- 
iting and retching predominate in Antimonium cruditm, and nausea in 
Ipecacuanha. Then, too, the latter remedy usually has clean or 
slightly coated tongue; whereas the former requires a thick white 
coating of that organ. 

Bryonia is similar to Antimonium crudum. It has white tongue, dry 
mouth and constipation. It is suited to gastric catarrh from over-eat- 
ing in persons of irritable temperament. The Bryonia tongue is a little 
different from that of Antimonium crudum , in that it is white down the 
middle, the edges not being coated. Then, too, the Bryo?iia stool is 
large, hard, dry and brown. If there is diarrhoea, the stool is off ensive 
and watery, and smells like old cheese. 

Still another remedy is Pulsatilla. Here we find resemblances in the 
state of mind. We have both remedies called for in gastric ailments 
from the use of pork. But Pulsatilla has not the characteristic vomit- 
ing of Antimony, and the stool of Pulsatilla is usually greenish, or yel- 
lowish-green, and slimy. It is especially suited to cases after indul- 
gence in mixed diet — ice-cream, cakes, pastry, etc. 

A?itimonium crudum acts upon the skin, producing thick, horny cal- 
losities in this tissue. It is often indicated in eczematous eruptions, 
when the skin is of this character. 

It also has a marked action on the nails, causing deficient growth. 
If, after an accident which has split the nail, the latter does not heal 
readily, but grows cracked and thick, A?itimo?iium crudum will make 
it grow as it should. I have also used the drug successfully in treat- 
ing a split hoof, in the case of my own horse. 

Children who need A?itimo?iium crudum often have an eruption, con- 
sisting of crusts which are of a honey-yellow color. They are thick, just 
as we have seen with the callosities. The affected portions of the skin 



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A CLINICAL MATERIA M3DICA. 



crack readily. This is particularly well-marked about the nostrils and 
corners of the mouth. 

Now, I know of one case of diphtheria cured by Antimonium crudum 
when the symptoms were these: the child was very cross; whining and 
crying simply because it was looked at; this was especially soon awak- 
ing from sleep; and there were these crusts around the nostrils and in 
the corners of the mouth. Antimonium crudum not only removed 
these but cured the diphtheria. 

The eyes are inflamed. They are worse from any bright glare, as the 
sunshine, or the glare of a bright fire, here reminding you of Mercurius. 
A?itimonium crudum is distinguished from Graphites by the fact that 
the rawness is confined to the canthi, whereas under Graphites the in- 
flammation involves the whole border of the lids. 

On the female genital organs Antimonium cntdum has some action. 
It is useful in prolapsus uteri when there is constant bearing-down 
feeling, as if something were pushing out of the vagina, and tenderness 
over the ovarian region, particularly when the menses have been sup- 
pressed by cold bathing. The leucorrhoea is watery and contains little 
lumps. 

There is one more use of Antimonium crudum to mention and we are 
done with it, and that is in adults who are tormented with gout. It is 
especially useful when gout has become constitutional. There will be 
gouty nodes in many of the joints. It here helps, provided the gastric 
symptoms characteristic of the remedy are present, but not otherwise. 

Antimonium Tartaricum. 



Antimonium 
tartaricum. 



i. 



2. 



f Bar}7ta c. , L,achesis. 
Ipecac, Kali hyd. 

\ Phosphorus, Sulphur, Carbo v. 

I Laurocerasus, Ammonium carb. 

[ Bromine, Iodine, Spongia. 
Skin. — Conium, Mercurius, Kalibi., Kali hyd. 
Bowels. — Veratr. alb., Merc. 



Throat and 
Lungs. 



Antimonium tartaricum or Tartar emetic, as it is also called, is a com- 
pound salt of antimony and potash, both of which substances depress 
the circulation. Hence you will expect to see symptoms due to this 



THE PREPARATIONS OF ANTIMONY. 58 1 

cause intensified under Antimonium tartaricum. It causes more weak- 
ness of the heart and lungs than does antimony itself. 

Under Antimonium tartaricum we find the head confused, with 
warmth of the forehead and confused feeling, as if the patient ought 
to sleep. This drowsiness is worse in the forenoon. Often there is a 
headache, with sensation as if a band were tied around the forehead. 
This is a common symptom of headache due to passive congestion of 
the brain. You find it under Gelsemium, Mercurius, Carbolic acid, 
Sulphur, and several other remedies. Cool air and moving about seem 
to brighten the patient up. Bathing the head relieves; this is contrary 
to the general modality of Antimonium crudum. There is sometimes 
throbbing, particularly in the right side of the head. Still another 
form of headache is drawing in the right temple, extending down and 
into the jaw-bone. This is a sort of rheumatic tearing pain in the 
periosteum. If the patient is a child we note an unwillingness to be 
looked at or touched, and if you persist in 3^our unwelcome attention 
it may have convulsions. On awaking from sleep the child seems 
stupid, and is so excessively irritable that he howls if one simply looks 
at him. Vertigo is often an accompaniment of the Antimonium tar- 
taricum ailment; this vertigo seems to alternate with drowsiness. 

We often find Antimonium tartaricum indicated in cases of sup- 
pressed eruptions when there result these symptoms of the head. Par- 
ticularly is it called for when the eruption of scarlatina, measles or 
variola does not come out properly, or has been repelled; then we have, 
in* addition to the symptoms I have already mentioned, great difficulty 
in breathing. The face is bluish or purple, the child becomes more 
and more drowsy and twitches. There is rattling breathing. All of 
these symptoms indicate a desperate case. Antimo?iium tartayicum will 
frequently restore the eruption and save the child. Now, these symp- 
toms that I have mentioned accompany two grand sets of phenomena 
for which A?itimo7iium tartaricum may be useful, namely, pulmonary 
and gastro-enteric affections. 

For children it is an invaluable drug in disease of the chest. For in- 
stance you find itindicated in whooping-cough, and, in fact, in any cough, 
whether from dentition or other causes, when the cough is provoked 
every time the child gets angry, which is very often. Eating brings 
on the cough, which culminates in the vomiting of mucus and food. 

Again, there is another form of chest trouble in which Antimonium 
tartaricum is indicated. A nursing infant suddenly lets go of the 



582 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

nipple, and cries as if out of breath, and seems to be better when held 
upright and carried about. Now, this may be the beginning of 
capillary bronchitis. On examination you will probably detect fine 
subcrepitant rales all through the chest. Antimoniiim tartaricum here 
nips the whole disease in the bud and saves the child much suffering. 
Again, there is another form of cough in which it may be used. There 
is marked wheezing when the child breathes. The cough sounds loose, 
and yet the child raises no phlegm. This symptom increases until the 
child grows drowsy. Its head is hot and bathed in sweat. The cough 
then grows less and less frequent, the pulse weak, and symptoms of 
cyanosis appear. In these cases, the quicker you give Antimonium 
tartaricum, the better for your patient. 

Aiitimonium tartaricum is also indicated in affections of old people, 
and particularly in orthopncea, or threatening paralysis of the lungs 
in the aged. You hear loud rattling of phlegm in the chest, and yet 
the patient cannot get up the phlegm. Here Baryta carb. is comple- 
mentary to Antimonium tart., and often succeeds when the latter 
remedy only partially relieves. 

Now for a few of the concordant remedies in these cases. 

Ipecacuanha often precedes Antimonium tartaricum in catarrh of the 
chest in children. Loud rales are heard through the chest. When 
they cough they gag, but raise but little phlegm. 

In this threatening paralysis of the lungs you must compare Anti- 
monium tartaricum with several other drugs; with Lachesis, which has 
aggravation when arousing from sleep; with Kali hydriodicum, espe- 
cially when there is oedema pulmonum and a great deal of rattling of 
mucus in the chest, and what little sputum can be raised is greenish, 
and frothy like soap-suds. 

Carbo veg. also suits these cases, but here the rattling is accompanied 
by cold breath and by coldness of the lower extremities from the feet 
to the knees. 

Moschus comes in when there is loud rattling of mucus and the 
patient is restless. It is especially indicated after typhoid fever. 
The pulse grows less and less strong, and finally the patient goes into 
a syncope. 

Also, do not forget Ammonium carbonicum in this condition. 

Antimonium tart, is indicated in the asphyxia at the beginning of 
life, asphyxia neonatorum, when there is rattling of mucus in the 
throat. 



THK PREPARATIONS OF ANTIMONY. 583 

Laurocerasus is useful in the asphyxia of new-born children when 
there is great blueness of the face, with twitching of the muscles of the 
face, and gasping without really breathing. 

Antimonium tartaricum produces a perfect picture of pleuro-pneu- 
monia. Certain portions of the lungs are paralyzed. Fine rales are 
heard, even over the hepatized areas. There is great oppression of 
breathing, particularly towards morning. The patient must sit up in 
order to breathe. It may also be indicated in bilious pneumonia, that 
is, pneumonia with hepatic congestion and with well-marked icterus. 
The pit of the stomach is very sensitive to touch or pressure. There 
are meteorism, nausea and vomiting. It may be used in the pneu- 
monia of drunkards with these complications. 

Antimonium tartaricum produces pustules very nearly identical with 
those of small-pox; hence, it may be a very useful remedy in that dis- 
ease. It is very useful in the beginning before the eruption appears, 
and the patient has a dry teasing cough, which, under other circum- 
stances, might suggest Bryonia. Here, however, you should give 
Antimonium tart., because it covers all the symptoms. It suits the 
cough and also the reason for the cough. It also suits the eye symp- 
toms which occur during eruptive diseases, as small-pox, scarlatina, 
measles, etc. 

In diseases of the intestinal tract we find it indicated by the follow- 
ing symptoms: nausea with great anxiety, eructations tasting like 
rotten eggs, yawning and drowsiness. The vomited matters are green 
and watery, and sometimes frothy, and contain food. The vomiting 
itself is associated with trembling of the hands, and is followed by 
drowsiness. Vomiting and purging may take place, with every symp- 
tom of collapse, coldness of the surface, the hands and feet are like ice, 
and the stools are profuse and watery. Thirstless or drinking little 
and often. Desire for acids, fruits, &c, cutting colic. Here you have 
an almost perfect picture of Veratrum. The distinction between the 
two remedies is that Veratrum has more cold sweat on the forehead, 
and Antimonium tart., more drowsiness. 

When Antimonium tart, has produced pustules, the antidote is 
Conium. 



LECTURE LVL 



THE PREPARATIONS OF MERCURY. 



Mercurius vivus and solubilis. 

dulcis. 

corrosivus. 

aceticus. 

protoiodatus. 

biniodatus. 

cyanatus. 
Cinnabaris. 
Mercurius sulph. 

" prsecip. rub. 



r Hepar. 

Cinch. 

Nitr. ac. 

Dulc. 

Kali hyd. 

Aurum. 

Asafcet. 

Staph. 

Lach. 

Iodine. 

Mezer. 
I Stilling. 



Wk begin this morning with the study of Mercury and its combi- 
nations. Mercury has long been known and used as a medicine in the 
old school of practice. Its abuse, when given in excess or inappropri- 
ately, has rendered it a very unpopular remedy among the laity. 
There are many physicians in the so-called old-school practice who 
have endeavored to obtain for Mercury a substitute which would 
answer the same purpose without deleterious results. They have 
been more or less successful, but they have never really obtained any- 
thing equivalent to that remedy in its genuine usefulness. Of late 
days, there are not so many allopathic physicians who give the great 
doses of Mercury that used to be so common. This caution in its ad- 
ministration is no evidence of improvement of the medical world, 
scientifically speaking,- but only that they have been driven to this 
course by their unfortunate results and by popular clamor. There are 
many physicians who are afraid to let their patients know that they 
are taking mercurials. The eclectics have substituted such plants as 
Podophyllum and Leptandra for Mercury, especially in liver affections. 

We, of the homoeopathic school, are not afraid to use mercurials, 
because we do so according to a fixed law, guided by their effects on 
the human system; therefore, we are not in any danger of the bad 



THE PREPARATIONS OF MERCURY. 585 

results which follow overdosing or misapplication of the drug. You 
notice that I have placed on the board a number of mercurial prepa- 
rations. All of these have some medicinal properties, but we have 
not the time, nor will it be proper, to dwell on them all. Our main 
object is to treat of the principal actions of Mercury in general, and 
then to teach you the principal characteristics which will enable you 
to prefer one of these preparations rather than others. From the gen- 
eral character of the patient, you know that he needs some mercurial 
preparation, and you want to know wmich one. We have here two 
preparations, Mercurius vivus and solubilis, that I have placed on the 
same line. I do not know enough to separate them symptomatica!^'. 
The provings have been separately placed in Allen's Encylopcpdia, but 
I have not been able to see any essential differences between them. 
These preparations are the quicksilver, or metallic Mercury, and the 
Soluble Mercury of Hahnemann. Mercurius solubilis is not a pure 
mercurial preparation. It contains some Ammonia and some Nitric 
acid. There are only traces of AHtric acid, however, and yet these 
traces must modify its symptomatology somewhat, but to what degree 
I do not know. The provings of the "solubilis'" are excellent. 
They are complete, much more so than those of the " vivus." These 
latter are collected more from poisoning cases and from clinical cases 
than from actual provings. If, then, the s}miptoms are clearly placed 
in the Encyclopedia under Soluble Mercury, I would advise you to use 
that preparation. Below the Mercurius vivus and solubilis on the board 
we have two preparations of Mercury with Chlorijie. Next comes 
Mercurius aceticus, of which we have but few symptoms. Next we 
have the two Iodides of Mercury, w T hich are very important. The 
Biniodide is red, the Protoiodide, yellow. Then w T e have the Cyanide 
of Mercury. Next we have Cinnabaris, which is the Sulphide of 
Mercury. Beneath this we have the Sulphate of Mercury, and then the 
Mercurius prtzcipitatus ruber. Of the latter three we have but few 
symptoms. Cinnabaris, the two iodides, the corrosivus, the solubilis 
and the vivus are the most frequently used. 

You see here on your right a list of antidotes to Mercury. That 
is in itself evidence of the numerous ill-effects which may result from 
its abuse. The}' are not all of equal importance. As I mentioned the 
other day, Hepar is the most important antidote for Mercury, and also 
for many of the other metals. It is useful for the mental symptoms 
that may follow a course of Mercury, the anxiety, distress, and even 



586 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

the suicidal mood; also for the bone pains, sore mouth, ulcers and the 
gastric symptoms. 

Nitric acid is particularly to be remembered when the lower tissues 
are attacked, as the periosteum, the bones and the fibrous tissues. 
The patient has bone-pains worse at night, aching in the shins in damp 
weather, ulcers in the throat; particularly if secondary syphilis is com- 
plicated by mercurial poisoning. 

Cinchona is said to antidote the chronic ptyalism produced by Mer- 
cury. 

Dulcamara has been successfully used for the salivation of Mercury, 
particularly when it is aggravated with every damp change in the 
weather. 

Kali hydriodicum, or the Iodide of Potassium, is a well-known antidote 
for Mercury, and has come into practice of late years, and is given by 
both schools of medicine very extensively, whether the case be syphi- 
litic or not. Like Nitric acid, it is particularly indicated when syphilis 
and Mercury combine to make the patient sick, especially when the 
lower order of tissues are involved, as the bones, the periosteum and 
the glands; when there is the well-known syphilitic ozaena, a thin 
watery discharge from the nose, making the upper lip sore and raw. 
You will find it the best drug we have for the repeated catarrhs which 
may follow the abuse of Mercury. Every little exposure to a damp 
atmosphere, or even to cool air, causes coryza. This, remember, is a 
case of mercurial poisoning which the Iodide of Potassium is to antidote. 
The eyes are hot, and watery, and swollen. There are neuralgic 
pains in one or both cheeks, the nose feels stuffed up and is swollen, 
and discharges at the same time a profuse watery scalding coryza, and 
there is more or less sore throat. These symptoms recur at every 
fresh exposure. There is scarcely any drug which will cure these 
quicker than will Iodide of Potassium. 

There is another salt of potash that has an antidotal relation to 
Mercury, and that is Kali chloricum. This is an efficient antidote when 
the poison has developed a sort of scorbutus, and the gums are spongy, 
soft, and bleed easily; there are ulcers of an aphthous character in the 
mouth and throat, and foetor of the breath. 

Aurum has next mention. This we find particularly called for in 
the mental depression and suicidal mania which may develop after a 
course of Mercury, and also for the caries of the bones, particularly of 
the bones of the palate, nose, etc. 



THE PREPARATIONS OF MERCURY. 587 

Asafoetida also comes in as a drug to be thought of in the bone 
affections developed b}' Mercury. Here you have, as a characteristic 
distinguishing it from the others, extreme sensitiveness around the dis- 
eased portion of bone. For instance, in the case of an ulcer communi- 
cating with a carious tibia, the parts are so sensitive that the patient 
can scarcely bear the dressing that you apply. You will find that the 
tissues are firmly adherent to the bone for some little distance around 
the inflamed portion. Then, too, you find Asafoetida sometimes indi- 
cated for iritis following mercurialization. Here, to distinguish it from 
other remedies, you have the same characteristic, extreme soreness of 
the bones around the eye. 

Staphisagria is an antidote for Mercury, and in rather bad cases, too, 
when the system is very much depreciated by the mercurial poison. 
We find the patient wasting away and sallow, dark rings around the 
eyes, well-marked mercurial mouth and throat, with spongy gums, 
tongue flabby, ulcers on the tongue and in the throat and well-marked 
bone pains. 

Lachesis is an occasional antidote for some of the symptoms, when 
the mercurial poison has been engrafted upon the constitution and the 
special characteristics of that remedy are present. 

Iodine comes in as an antidote, especially w r hen the glands are 
affected. 

Mezereum is excellent when the mercurial poisoning has invaded the 
nervous system and neuralgia has developed. This neuralgia may ap- 
pear in the face, in the eyes or in any part of the body. 

Lastly, we have Stillingia, which is called for in broken down consti- 
tution with periosteal inflammation and nodes on the bones. 

Mercury, it is well known, enters into loose combination with the 
tissues of the body. It has been found in every tissue and may be 
excreted by almost every channel. It has been found in the perspira- 
tion, urine, bile, faeces and saliva. It has even been found in the child 
in utero and, again, in the nursing infant, when the drug has been 
taken by the mother. I said that the combination of Mercury with 
the tissues is a loose one, by which I mean it is early disrupted. If 
a person is poisoned with Mercury, it will be readily displaced by one 
of the above remedies. It is only the chronic cases that need give you 
concern, and the cure of which you may despair of. When mercuri- 
alization is combined with other poisons, as with syphilis and scrofula, 
then you will have greater difficulty. 



588 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

The symptoms of poisoning by Mercury are these: after exposure to 
the poison, the breath takes on a sickening sort of odor hard to 
describe but easy to remember. There is also a metallic taste in the 
mouth. These are very early symptoms and assert themselves long 
before the well-known characteristics of the drug appear. The patient 
feels languid and is frequently sick at his stomach. He vomits his 
food without any apparent cause. His face becomes rather pale, with 
dark rings around the eyes; the lips are rather livid and purplish. He 
complains of heat, particularly in the forehead and down the root of 
the nose. He cannot bear the warmth of the bed. As soon as he gets 
warm in bed, his aches and pains begin. Then his mouth begins to 
feel sore. The mucous membrane becomes puffed, swollen and redder 
than natural. The salivary glands begin to secrete more rapidly and 
the mouth is filled with saliva, which is, however, normal in its com- 
position. In a more advanced case, the saliva becomes vitiated. It is 
no longer the pure secretion, for the glands are overworked. The 
breath becomes more and more offensive, the gums swell and are 
tender to touch and the teeth become loose. A dark red line some- 
times appears on the gums below the teeth. Later, the gums grow 
spongy and yellowish-white and ulcerate and discharge an offensive 
matter. The tongue swells and readily takes the imprint of the teeth. 
The glands then become involved and you find more or less tumefac- 
tion of the parotid and cervical glands. If you were to look into the 
mouth at this stage, you would find the opening of Steno's duct red 
and inflamed and, in some cases, even ulcerated. Other glands, too, 
are affected. We find the pancreas attacked by Mercury. The liver 
also comes in for a share of the poison. You are probably aware that 
the liver is markedly affected by Mercury, and that allopathic physicians 
have been accustomed to give blue mass or calomel in almost every at- 
tack of "liver-complaint." Quite recently, several eminent physicians 
in the old school have declared that Mercury does not increase the flow 
of bile and hence is not useful for torpid liver; but, however that may 
be, it is certain that Mercury does affect the liver in one way or another. 
It has caused catarrh of the duodenum, and this catarrh has extended 
along the bile-duct into the liver. This is a form of trouble which 
frequently causes jaundice, and a form, too, for which Mercury is 
useful. It has also produced and cured hepatitis, particularly when 
one or more abscesses have formed in the liver. Individual suscepti- 
bility and age vary these symptoms considerably. You will find that 



THE PREPARATIONS OF MERCURY. 589 

it is more difficult to salivate children than adults.- Some persons are 
salivated by very small quantities, while it is difficult to affect others. 
The scrofulous are very seriously affected by Mercury, as you all 
know. 

The more remote symptoms of mercurial poisoning are these: you 
will find that the blood becomes impoverished. The albumin and 
fibrin forming of that fluid are affected. They are diminished, and you 
find in their place a certain fatty substance; the composition of which 
I do not exactly know. Consequently, as a prominent symptom, the 
body wastes and emaciates. The patient suffers from fever which is 
rather hectic in its character. The periosteum becomes affected and 
you then have a characteristic group of mercurial pains, bone pains 
worse in changes of the weather, worse in the warmth of the bed, and 
chilliness with or after stool. The skin becomes of a brownish hue ; 
ulcers form, particularly on the legs; they are stubborn and will not 
heal. The patient is troubled with sleeplessness and ebullitions of 
blood at night; he is hot and cannot sleep; he is thrown quickly into a 
perspiration, which perspiration gives him no relief. The entire 
nervous system suffers also, and you have here two series of symptoms. 
At first, the patient becomes anxious and restless and cannot remain 
quiet; he changes his position: he moves about from place to place; he 
seems to have a great deal of anxiety about the heart, precordial 
anguish, as it is termed, particularly at night. Then, in another 
series of symptoms, there are jerkings of the limbs, making the patient 
appear as though he were attacked by St. Vitus' s dance. Or, you 
may notice what is still more common, trembling of the hands, this 
tremor being altogether beyond the control of the patient and gradu- 
ally spreading over the entire body, giving you a semblance of para- 
lysis agitans or shaking palsy. Finally, the patient becomes para- 
lyzed, cannot move his limbs, his mind becomes lost, and he presents 
a perfect picture of imbecility. He does all sorts of queer things. He 
sits in the corner with an idiotic smile on his face, playing with 
straws; he is forgetful, he cannot remember even the most ordinary 
events. He becomes disgustingly filthy and eats his own excrement. 
In fact, he is a perfect idiot. Be careful how you give Mercury; it is 
a treacherous medicine. It seems often indicated. You give it and 
relieve; but your patient is worse again in a few weeks and then you 
give it again with relief. By and by, it fails you. Now, if I want to 
make a permanent cure, for instance, in a scrofulous child, I will very 



590 



A CIvINICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 



seldom give him Mercury; should I do so, it will be at least only as an 
intercurrent remedy. 

I have placed on the board in tabular form, a list of the mercurial 
salts together with the parts of the body on which they act. Wher- 
ever you notice the cross, you know that the preparation acts on the 
part of the body placed on that line under the heading of Mercurius 
vivus. This table is only a convenient form. There is nothing prac- 
tical or scientific in it. 



Mercurius Vivus. 



Byes 

Nose 

Mouth and \ 

Throat, / 

Kidneys and \ 
Bladder, J 

Heart . 

Lungs 

Genitals 

Glands and \ 

Bones, J 

Skin 

Stomach and 
Iyiver, 



Bin. 


Prot. 


Cyan. 


Dulc. 


Corros. 


Cinn. 


Sulph. 


Rub. 


Acet. 


— 


+ 


— 


+ 


-f 


+ 


— 


— 


— 


+ 


_1_ 


+ 


— 


+ 


+ 


— 


— 


— 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


— 


— 


— 




— 


+ 


— 


+ 


— 


— 


— 


+ 


— 


+ 


+ 


— 


+ 


— 


+ 


+ 


— 


+ 


+ 


— 


— 


4- 


+ 


+ 


— 


— 


+ 


+ 


+ 


— 


+ 


+ 


— 


+ 


— 


-r- 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


+ 


— 


+ 


+ 


— 


+ 


— 


+ 


+ 


— 


— 


+ 


+ 


+ 


' — 


— 



Taking Mercurius vivus as a type of the whole, we find that it is in- 
dicated in persons who are of a scrofulous habit, whether of syphilitic 
constitution or not, in whom the glandular system is active. This 
glandular activity shows itself in two ways. In the first place, we 
may have a condition simulating plethora. In more advanced stages, 
we may find Mercurius indicated in enlarged glands with emaciation 
and deficiency of blood. We find Mercurius indicated also in scrofu- 
lous children who have unusually large heads with open fontanelles, 
particularly anterior fontanelles. They are slow in learning to walk, 
the teeth form imperfectly or slowly, the limbs are apt to be cold and 
damp, and there is a damp, clammy feeling to the limbs. You may 
distinguish it from Calcarea, Silicea and Sulphur by these characteristics: 



THE PREPARATIONS OF MERCURY. 59 1 

the head is inclined to perspire in the Mercurius case, but the 
perspiration is offensive and oily. It is not as often indicated as 
Calcarea, Silicea or Sulphur, nor is it as certain or as permanent in its 
effects. But it may come in as a remedy to partially relieve, and it 
may be indicated as an intercurrent remed}^ in a course of treatment 
with Sulphur, when the latter remedy seems to fail. You will find 
the Mercurius patient illustrating plethora with anxiety and restless- 
ness, tossing about, moving from place to place. It is one of the 
remedies useful for nostalgia or home-sickness. The patient becomes 
anxious and irritable. This anxiety seems as if it were in the blood, 
that is, it is always attended with ebullitions of blood. This dis- 
tinguishes it from other remedies. 

The congestions of Mercurius indicate it after Belladonna. There 
are resemblances between the two remedies, which have been well con- 
firmed clinically. It often follows Belladonna in inflammations, even 
in inflammation of the meninges of the brain, when, as under Bella- 
domia, there are the same hasty speech and quick, nervous manner. 
The child talks so rapidly that one word runs into another. You will 
find the face flushed very much as in Belladonna, but } 7 ou have, in ad- 
dition, to distinguish it from that remedy, glandular swellings, and 
tendency to sore mouth. 

Mercurius is often indicated in catarrhal or gastric fevers when the 
face is puffed, when the throat is swollen, both internally and ex- 
ternally, from involvement of both glands and cellular tissue; when 
there are aching pains in the joints, which are made worse by the 
warmth of the bed, and are not relieved by sweat. In addition to this 
you almost always find that there is a tendency to catarrh of the 
bowels, characterized by slimy, bloody stool, accompanied by great 
tenesmus, this tenesmus not ceasing after stool. Here, too, you will 
find that Mercurius follows Belladonna well. 

We find Mercurkis indicated in haemorrhages. It is often called for 
in nose-bleed or epistaxis, particularly when the blood coagulates and 
hangs from the nostrils like icicles. This is a useful hint. Suppose 
that nose-bleed appears in a scrofulous child or in a full-blooded 
patient, a boy at the age of fifteen or sixteen, when congestions are so 
frequently noticed. You have given Belladonna, Hamamelis, and 
Erigeron, and have failed to check it. The blood is quite bright, and 
runs in streams. Medicines do not stop it. Then comes this Mer- 
curius condition. You give that remedy and cure, not only that 



592 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

attack, but you prevent the return of others. The same indications 
apply to uterine haemorrhage or menorrhagia when the flow is pro- 
fuse, dark and clotted. Then, if the glandular swelling, sore mouth, 
and other symptoms are present, Mercurius is certain to be the 
remedy. 

We find Mercurius indicated in pneumonia. Here it requires that 
the right lung be affected, and that there are also icteroid symptoms. 
The skin is yellow. There is sharp stitching pain through the lower 
portion of the right lung. There will be other pathognomonic symp- 
toms of pneumonia present, but these need not be specified sepa- 
rately. 

We find it indicated in peritonitis, and here again it follows Bella- 
donna when suppuration has commenced and you have tympanitic ab- 
domen, evidence of effusion, which will be partly serous and partly 
purulent, sweat, rigors, etc. Here Mercurius prevents the further 
spread of the suppurative process. 

Another condition in which we may use Mercurius is one of in- 
flammation which has gone on to suppuration, whether the disease be 
a boil, a tonsillitis, or any other form of inflammation. Mercurius 
belongs to an interesting little group of medicines which you will use 
very often; they are Belladonna, Hepar, Mercurius and Lachesis. To 
these we may also add Silicea and Sulphur. You should prefer Bella- 
donna in the beginning of inflammation as in tonsillitis. The throat is 
bright red and swollen, and there is difficulty in swallowing fluids, and 
sharp pains through the tonsils. 

You should change to Hepar when the sharp sticking pains and 
chills indicate the beginning of suppuration. It may prevent suppura- 
tion when given in the incipiency of that process. 

Mercurius is suited to a still more advanced state when pus has 
formed and you wish it evacuated. Mercurius does not prevent the 
formation of pus, but rather favors it. If you give it too soon you will 
spoil the case. In felons, if it is given low, it will generally favor the 
rapid formation of pus. 

When pus continues to discharge and the wound refuses to heal, 
Silicea follows Hepar. In some of these cases, the benefit under Silicea 
will cease. Then a dose or two of Sulphur will excite reaction and 
Silicea can effect a cure. 

Lachesis is indicated when the pus degenerates and becomes of a dark, 
thin, offensive character, with the sensitiveness to touch of that drug. 



THE PREPARATIONS OF MERCURY. 593 

Mercurius vivus is indicated in ophthalmia, usually of scrofulous or 
syphilitic origin. The patient suffers from the glare and heat of the 
fire, consequently he avoids the fire and warm rooms. You sometimes 
find it indicated in blepharitis of men who work in and about fires, as 
foundrymen. The pains are usually worse at night. The lids are 
thickened, especially at their tarsal edges, and the eyes discharge a 
thin acrid muco-pus, and you find little pimples scattered over the 
cheeks. Ulcers may form on the cornea. These ulcers are usually 
superficial, and have an opaque look as though pus were between the 
corneal layers. In syphilitic iritis Mercurius will be sometimes in- 
dicated when there is hypopyon. Now let us distinguish between this 
and other preparations of Mercury. 

The Biniodide of Mercury is indicated in inflammations of the eye. 
The symptoms are very similar to those of ' ' vivus, ' ' but there is more 
glandular swelling. 

The Protoiodide is more frequently indicated in eye diseases than is 
the Biniodide. It is called for in corneal ulcers which look as if they 
had been chipped out with the finger nail. There is, usually, a thick 
yellow coating on the base of the tongue, the anterior portion being 
clean and red. 

Mercurius d?ilcis, or calomel, is selected more by its general symp- 
toms, which are these: it suits in scrofulous children who are pale, and 
who have swelling of the cervical and other glands. The skin is 
rather flabby and ill nourished. The flabby bloatedness and pallor are 
the indications for calomel. 

Next to this we have Bichloride of Mercury or Mercurius corrosivus. 
This is indicated in inflammatory symptoms of the most violent char- 
acter. There is no mercurial that produces such intense symptoms as 
does the Bichloride. It produces burning, agonizing pains, with most 
excessive photophobia and profuse excoriating lachrymation, making 
the cheeks sore, almost taking the skin off, so excoriating is it. There 
are tearing pains in the bones around the eye. There is ulceration of 
the cornea, with tendency to perforation. In such cases you will, as a 
matter of course, have hypopyon. Mercurius corrosivus is almost a 
specific for syphilitic iritis. If the symptoms of the case do not point 
to some other drug as the remedy, you should give it in this disease. 
If you choose to use atropia locally, do so in order to prevent the 
adhesions which will otherwise almost inevitably take place in these 
cases. You will also find Mercurius corrosivus indicated in retinitis 
albuminuria. 
38 



594 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Cinnabaris is next. As a remedy for quite a variety of inflamma- 
tions of the eye. I will only give you one symptom for it, and that is 
pain which shoots across the eye from canthus to canthus, or seems to 
go around the eye. 

Next, the action of Mercury on the nose. We find Mercurius vivus 
indicated in catarrhs of the nose and throat, which are provoked by 
damp, chilly weather, and by the damp, cool evening air. The nose 
itches and burns and feels stuffed- up; with this there is thin coryza. 
The throat feels raw and sore. There is aching in the various joints. 
These are the symptoms which will indicate Mercurius both as to the 
exciting cause and as to the symptoms present. You may have with 
these a hot feeling. The face flushes up and gets red, perspiration 
breaks out but it gives no relief. There is another form of coryza in 
which you may give Mercurius, and that is when the cold is "ripe," 
and the discharge from the nose is yellowish-green, thick and muco- 
purulent. 

Here it rivals Pulsatilla and Kali sulphuricum, both of which are 
useful for these thick, yellowish-green nasal discharges, when the 
patient is better in the open air and worse in the evening. Pulsatilla, 
independently of its other symptoms, is distinguished by the fact that 
the discharge is never irritating, but is perfectly bland. The discharge 
in Kali sulph. is more apt to be yellow. 

You are also to distinguish Mercurius from Nux vomica, which is 
suited to coryza caused by exposure to dry cold, and when there are 
soreness, roughness and a harsh, scraped feeling in the throat. Mer- 
curius always has a smarting, raw or sore feeling. 

Now, the throat symptoms of Mercurius vivus may lead you at times 
to think of it in diphtheria. Think of it as much as you choose, but 
think of it only to reject it. It is not indicated in diphtheria. I do 
nqt believe it indicated even in diphtheritis. But there are other pre- 
parations of Mercury which may be used here. Both the Biniodide and 
the Protoiodide of Mercury are indicated in diphtheritic sore throat, or 
even in true diphtheria. The Biniodide is of use when the left tonsil 
is inflamed and there is a yellowish-gray membrane forming there. 
The glands of the neck are swollen. There is also some involvement 
of the cellular tissue, around the throat. The patient may have an ac- 
cumulation of slimy or sticky mucus in the mouth and throat. The 
symptoms are worse from empty swallowing, so that the simple at- 
tempt to swallow saliva excites more pain than does the swallowing of 
food. 



THE PREPARATIONS OF MERCURY. 595 

The Protoiodide of Mercury is to be thought of more when the deposit 
forms on the right side of the throat, with swelling of the glands in 
the neck and with the accumulation of this tenacious mucus in the 
throat. Here there is almost always present that thick, 3'ellow, dirty 
coating on the base and posterior part of the tongue, the tip and sides 
being red. These two remedies are often indicated in diphtheritic sore 
throat. 

Next you will notice the Cyanide of Meirury, which is a combina- 
tion of hydrocyanic acid and mercury. We have in this drug one of 
the very best remedies in diphtheria, especially when it is of a true 
adynamic or malignant type. By reason of the presence of theprussic 
acid you will find it indicated in cases in which the patient is very 
much prostrated from the beginning. The pulse is quick. It may be 
as high as 130 or 140, and it has no volume to it at all. The mem- 
brane at first is white, covering the velum palati and tonsils. The 
glands soon begin to swell, however, and then the membrane becomes 
dark, threatening even to grow gangrenous. Weakness is extreme. 
The breath is foetid. There is loss of appetite. The tongue is coated 
brown, or, in severe cases, even black. Nose-bleed sets in, and this 
you know is a dangerous symptom. The remedy may also be used in 
diphtheria of the lar3 7 nx. The expectoration is thick and ropy and 
there is harsh, barking, croupy cough, with dyspnoea. Here, the 
Cyanide of Mercury has saved life, but it will not always do so. 

You will notice its resemblance to Kali bichromicum in diphtheritic 
croup. The fact lies in the larynx and in the thick, tough, tenacious 
expectoration. The distinction lies in this: the Cyanide of Mercury 
has great weakness. Now this weakness is not a simple prostration 
caused by the efforts of the child at breathing. It is due to poisoning 
of the blood, which is represented by the blueness of the surface, cold- 
ness of the extremities, and quick, weak pulse. If you have not 
these, Kali bichromicum is to be preferred. 

Cinnabaris is a remedy not often thought of in catarrhal troubles. 
It is indicated in nasal catarrh when there is great pressure at the root 
of the nose, a feeling as though something heavy was pressing on the 
nose, a heavy pair of spectacles for instance. We also frequently find 
throat symptoms with this form of catarrh. The throat is swollen and 
the tonsils are enlarged and redder than normal. There is great dry- 
ness in the throat, and this is more annoying at night, waking the 
patient from sleep. Remember this sensation across the bridge of the 



596 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

nose and the character of the throat symptoms in connection with it. 
These symptoms may occur in the syphilitic, in the scrofulous, or in 
persons in whom there is tendency to catarrh. We have found Cinna- 
baris of use in the sore throat of scarlatina, which is often diphtheritic 
in its character, when there is quite an accumulation of stringy mucus 
in the posterior nares. That symptom being prominent, Cinnabaris 
will be the remedy for the emergency. 

I have used Mercurius corrosivus successfully when the accumulation 
of mucus in the nose is quite thick; in fact, almost like glue. In some 
cases of syphilitic disease of the nose, you find Mercurius corrosivus in- 
dicated from the fact that the ulcers perforate the nasal septum, there 
are burning pains, and discharges are acrid, corroding the tissues over 
which they flow. 

The throat symptoms of Mercurius corrosivus are very violent. I 
can conceive of cases where it would be required in diphtheria, though 
I have never given it in that disease. The uvula is swollen, elongated 
and very dark red. There is intense burning in the throat, just as in- 
tense in fact as that of Arsenicum album, Arse?iicum iodatum or Cap- 
sicum. This burning pain is rendered intolerable by any external 
pressure. It is accompanied by violent constriction of the throat. 
Any attempt to swallow, be the matters swallowed solid or liquid, 
causes violent spasms of the throat, with the immediate ejection of the 
solid or liquid. 

You here recognize a resemblance to Belladonna in the spasmodic 
character of the symptoms. Mercurius corrosivus is at once distin- 
guished from Belladon?ia by the inflammatory tendency of the symp- 
toms as indicated by these extreme burning pains. Thus it has the 
constrictive quality of the Belladonna plus the most intense, destruc- 
tive inflammation of the throat. You may further distinguish be- 
tween the two remedies by the pulse. In Mercurius corrosivus the 
pulse is quick, weak, and irregular, and not full and strong as under 
Belladonna. 

Next, a word or two about the Mercuries in their action on the 
genitals and the glands. The Mercuries have long been used in the 
treatment of syphilis. Mercurius solubilis or vivus is indicated in 
primary syphilis for the so-called soft chancre or chancroid. The 
ulceration is superficial rather than deep, and the base of the sore has 
a dirty, lardaceous appearance. Mercurius sol. has produced such an 
ulcer as this, and, therefore, it will cure it. The sore throat which 



THE PREPARATIONS OF MERCURY. 597 

often ushers in the syphilitic fever six or seven weeks after the appear- 
ance of the primary lesion, is also found under Mercurius solubilis. 

The Iodides of Mercury are the preferable remedies for the Hunterian 
or hard chancre. That is a form of ulcer which the Protoiodide and 
Biniodide have both produced, therefore they will cure it. There is 
no necessity whatever for such external applications as caustics, for 
the proper internal remedy if it does not entirely prevent the onset of 
secondary symptoms will at least lessen their intensit} T . 

Mercurius corrosivus is to be preferred to any of the drugs mentioned 
for syphilitic symptoms when the ulceration is very destructive. The 
ulcer is serpiginous; it has a ragged edge, eating out and destroying in 
a few days nearly half the penis. 

Secondary syphilis may be treated with one or the other of these 
preparations, if the drug has not been abused in the primary stages. 
Mercurius solubilis very quickly helps the syphiloderms on the palms of 
the hands, which are red, itch slightly, and scale off. 

There is another use of Mercurius which should be mentioned here: 
if a child continually pulls at the penis, it may be on account of irrita- 
tion. Mercurius is the remedy — or perhaps Cantharis. 

Returning to Mercurius vivus, I want to say a few words concern- 
ing its use in diseases of the liver. The tongue is coated a dirt} 7 yel- 
lowish-white and takes the imprint of the teeth. Scorbutic sym- 
ptoms are usually present. The gums ulcerate and become spongy. 
There is a foetid or disagreeable odor from the mouth. The skin and 
conjunctiva have a well-marked jaundiced or icteroid hue. There 
is tendency to rush of blood to the head. The region of the liver 
is sore to the touch; the abdomen rather tympanitic and swollen, 
particularly across the epigastrium and in either hypochondrium. 
The patient cannot lie on the right side. You will find the liver en- 
larged and often indurated. The stools are either clay colored, from 
absence of bile, or they are 3'ellowish-green, bilious, passed with a 
great deal of tenesmus and followed by a " never-get-done" feeling. 

Mercury is indicated in dysentery, especially when it occurs in a 
season when warm days are followed by cold nights. 

Nux vomica has many resemblances to Mercurius, but it differs in 
that the pains and tenesmus usually cease after stool; whereas, with 
Mercurius, the} 7 continue after stool. 

Aconite often precedes the exhibition of Mercury in the weather I 
have spoken of, hot days followed by cold nights. In the incipient 



598 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

stages, such troubles may be checked by Acoiiite. If Aconite fails, 
then Mercurius will be indicated. Often, after the tenesmus and 
blood have ceased, and the mucus still persists, Sulphur will be the 
remedy. 

There is another remedy to be remembered in connection with Mer- 
cury in bilious troubles, and that is Leptandra. Both of them have 
these yellowish-green stools, or stools black like pitch, and horribly 
offensive stools. The distinction lies here: Leptandra has urging 
to stool, griping continuing after stool, but not the tenesmus. Lep- 
tandra frequently has dull, aching, burning pains in the posterior por- 
tion of the liver. 



LECTURE LVIL 

THE NOBLE METALS— AURUM. 

In this group we have Aurum metallicum , Aurum muriaticum, Ar- 
gentum metallicum, Argentum nitricum, Platinum and Palladium . There 
are also two or three others of which we know but little. 

Aurum and Argentum have many symptoms in common, and yet 
their distinctive characteristics are sufficient to enable you to separate 
them readily in practice. I will give you the general distinctions be- 
tween the two drugs before I consider them individually. Gold affects 
more the circulation of the blood. It also acts on the mind, producing 
emotional symptoms. Now, by this I mean that if you find symptoms 
of the nervous system in Aurum, they will be followed by symptoms 
of the circulation as the primary or most important features of the 
case. 

Argentum has more symptoms of the respiratory organs and intellect- 
ual part of the mind. With Aurum, we have tendency to hyperemia; 
in Argentum, more nervous phenomena; only, Aurzim seems to attack 
the bones. We find very few symptoms of Argentum indicating it in 
bone affections. The latter, however, causes an arthralgia or neuralgic 
pains in the joints. It also attacks the cartilages of joints. For in- 
stance, you find Argentum metallicum useful in the arthralgic pains of 
women who suffer from prolapsus uteri. They can scarcely move 
their joints, and yet a most careful investigation shows no rheumatic 
inflammation. 

Aurum suits in scrofula with redness of the face, thus keeping up 
the tendency to hyperemia or fulness of the bloodvessels. In these 
scrofulous cases, 3 t ou will find that the opacities and ulcers on the cor- 
nea are surrounded by well-filled bloodvessels; here, again typifying 
the hypersemic quality of the drug. 

Argentum suits in chlorosis. It affects the oxidizing power of 
the blood; it shrivels the body. Thus Aurum affects the distribution 
of the blood, giving us fulness or hyperemia, whereas Argentum 
affects its quality, rendering it incapable of fully carrying oxygen. 
Hence, all parts of the body dwindle from malnutrition. 

Silver, and especially its nitrate, coagulates albumen, and this is the 



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reason why the latter has been used locally for so many years as a 
caustic. When applied with moisture to animal tissues, it immediately 
coagulates the albuminous portions, and so tends to destroy whatever 
process is going on. Its action does not extend deeply, however, on 
account of the formation of this layer of coagulated albumen. 

Argentum nitricum more than the mental itself, causes gastro-enteric 
inflammation, very much like Arsenic. In poisoning cases it also 
seems to affect the epithelial layers. For instance, when animals that 
have been fed on it for quite a while die, the epithelial layers in all 
parts of the body seem to be more or less destroyed. That is the rea- 
son why you find it of use in cancer and in haemorrhages, in both of 
which conditions the epithelial structures are diseased. 



Aurum Metaixicum. 



'i.. Mind. 
2. Hyperemia. 
Aurum met. \ 3. Induration. 
I 4. Bones. 
^5. Fatty degeneration. 



Aurum met. 



r Belladonna. 
Mercurius, Nitric acid 
Arsenic, Asafcetida. 
Ammonium carb. 
Natrum mur. 



>Hepar. 

>Bell. 

>Merc. 



Aurum is a remedy of not very extensive application, but still it is 
well marked in its limited sphere. Its antidotes are principally He- 
par, Belladoyina and Mercurius. I am not positive that there is a com- 
plement to Aurum. Now, in studying the action of this remedy, we 
are to keep in mind, first, its marked power of producing hyperemia; 
and, secondly, its action on the emotional mind more than on the in- 
tellectual. 

First, let us study the hypersemia of Auyum. We find this in every 
part of the body upon which the drug acts. It affects the heart, caus- 
ing increased activity of that viscus, as shown by increased force of the 



THE NOBLE METALS. 6oi 

heart-stroke, just as you find in pure cardiac hypertrophy without 
dilatation. As a result of this increased action, there is enlargement 
and secondarily, actual rrypertroph}- of the heart. Consecutive to this 
trouble, you have a list of symptoms that are very characteristic. The 
lungs are too full of blood, so that the patient on attempting to walk up 
hill, or use any little exertion, feels as though there were a crushing 
weight under the sternum. He feels that if he did not stop walking 
the blood would burst through the chest. Auriun relieves this kind 
of a case very nicely. According to Kafka, Aurtim muriaticum is here 
preferable to the mctallicum . 

This is very similar to Ammonium carb., which has a similar sensa- 
tion of crushing weight on the sternum, but more tendency to somno- 
lence and venous fulness than has Aurum. 

Owing to this condition of the heart there is necessarily hypersemia 
in other organs. We find, for instance, this tendency to rush of blood 
to the head aggravated by mental labor, because study always increases 
the amount of blood in the brain, if there is any tendency to cerebral 
congestion. There is a feeling of fulness in the head, accompanied by 
roaring in the ears. The head feels sore and bruised, and the mind is 
confused. The face, in extreme cases of congestion, is rather bloated, 
and has a glassy look. Sparks or flashes of light before the eyes show 
pressure on the retinal vessels. Still further evidence of the hypersemia 
in the eye is revealed b}' the ophthalmoscope. You find a sensation 
in the eye as though it were being pushed out, with a certain amount 
of tension there. Two errors of vision may be associated with these 
symptoms; either he sees double, or he suffers from what is known as 
half-sight. Xow, these symptoms are suggestive of hyperemia of the 
brain, which may occur from various causes, among the most promi- 
nent being overuse of the eyes, or working in hot places. 

Glaucoma may suggest Aurum. 

In scrofulous ophthalmia we frequently find Aurum indicated, if 
there are present those sjmiptoms of congestion. The bloodvessels 
are very much injected; pannus is present; great vascularity is a 
characteristic in these cases calling for Aurum. In addition, you will 
find profuse scalding lachrymation. The eyes are very sensitive to 
the touch. 

Aurum may be used in cases of syphilitic iritis when the eye is de- 
cidedly worse from touch. There is a very characteristic soreness 
around the eye, as if in the bones. Especially is it indicated in syph- 
ilitic cases after the abuse of mercury. 



602 A CIvINICAL MATERIA MKD1CA. 

In retinal congestion, you should compare with Aurum, Belladonna, 
Glonoin and Sulphur. 

In syphilitic iritis, with that sore, bruised sensation around the 
eyes, compare Asafcetida. This remedy, however, has it in less de- 
gree. You may also compare here, Mercurius corrosivus and Nitric 
acid. 

The nose, too, is congested and has a red, knobby tip, greatly dis- 
figuring the face. This may exist as a sequel to the long indulgence 
in alcohol, or it may be found in children as a symptom of scrofula. 
If the latter is the case, it is often accompanied by the characteristic 
catarrh for which Awtum is the remedy. 

In nasal catarrh or ozaena the nostrils are sore and cracked. There 
is foetid nasal discharge, often accompanied by caries of the nasal 
bones. There is ulceration of the soft parts with perforation of the 
nasal septum. It is especially indicated in cases of scrofulous or 
mercurio-syphilitic origin. 

The Aurum ear symptoms are not very numerous but are suggest- 
ive. The ears are congested, and you find roaring in the ears, as I 
suggested a few moments ago. Further than this, you find great sen- 
sitiveness to noises. Now, it is sometimes indicated in catarrh of the' 
middle ear. In these cases you note a foetid otorrhoea. In addition to 
this you will very likely find the membrana tympani seriously dam- 
aged. The external auditory meatus and the mastoid process of the 
temporal bone become affected by direct spread of the disease. There 
are boring pains in the mastoid process. The trouble may progress to 
caries. I have already shown you illustrations of the effect of Aurum 
on the bones. You noticed that it was indicated in iritis with pains 
in the bones around the orbits; and you know also that it affects the 
nasal bones, producing caries there. . 

In caries of the mastoid process Nitric acid is the nearest ally to the 
Aurum metallicum. 

For simple soreness or inflammation, beginning in the mastoid cells, 
Capsicum has won some laurels, but for caries of this process, Aurum, 
Silicea and Nitric acid are the best remedies. 

Aurum has some throat symptoms. The tonsils are apt to be red 
and swollen, and the parotid gland on the affected side feels sore, as if 
contused. The hard palate may be carious. With all this, there is a 
mercurial or syphilitic history. I have dwelt on these symptoms be- 
cause they are those which Aurum has most frequently removed. 



THE NOBLE METAES. 603 

Returning to the circulatory disturbances of Aurum, we find a 
hyperemia of the kidneys. This is shown in the beginning by simple 
increase in the amount of urine passed. By and by the kidneys begin 
to undergo fatty degeneration. The urine then grows scanty and 
albuminous, or there may be granular or cirrhosed kidney. Aurum 
will not do any good in these cases, unless the renal trouble is second- 
ary to some heart affection. 

The nearest remedy, pathologically, to Aurum in granular kidney is 
Plumbum. 

We find, too, that the genital organs are affected by this hyperemia 
and there is strong tendency to erections. The testicles become in- 
flamed, particularly the right. Aurum is especially suited to chronic 
orchitis, particularly when the right testicle is affected. 

As another sequel to this effect of Aurum, we find hepatic conges- 
tion. The liver is swollen consecutive to cardiac disease. This 
hyperemia is associated with burning and cutting in the right hypo- 
chondrium. As the hyperemia continues, the liver becomes cirrhosed 
or else undergoes fatty degeneration. Ascites appears. The stools 
are of a grayish or ashy-white color from defective secretion of bile, 
and we have here, as in almost all ailments in which Aurum is the 
remedy, a peculiar state of the emotional mind, a melancholy or a 
low-spiritedness, which I shall describe to you presently. 

The lungs are also hypersemic. There is great oppression of the 
chest, which is worse at night, particularly in the first part of the 
night; it is worse from prolonged exercise, from prolonged walking. 
The face may be purple. In extreme cases, syncope may take place. 

On the female organs we find Aurum acting powerfully, causing 
congestion of the uterus. The uterus becomes prolapsed from its 
great weight. It is enlarged from chronic congestion. This is the 
form of prolapsus which Aurum will cure, and no other. The ordi- 
nary remedies for prolapsus, such as Lilhim or Nux vomica, cannot 
relieve this case, because the prolapsus is not the main characteristic. 
The cause of the prolapsus is the weight of the organ and not the 
relaxation of the ligaments or weakness of the general system. 

There is another salt of gold which has been successfully substituted 
for Atirum metallicum in these cases, and that is Aurum muriaticum 
natronatum. This has been used in the second and third potencies for 
prolapsed and indurated uterus. 

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604 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

all cases in which it is the similimum, there is present a melancholy, 
with disposition to weep, or with a feeling of self-condemnation, as if 
he was not fit to live. This feeling of self-condemnation or worthless- 
ness may amount to despair, sometimes even taking the form of 
religious mania. He prays all the time. He is sure that he is going 
to be condemned to the lower regions. He has suicidal thoughts, if 
he does not make actual attempts at suicide. With all this there is a 
great deal of mental anguish, associated with precordial distress, by 
which I mean distressed feeling referred to the cardiac region. In ad- 
dition to the melancholy, Aurum also produces weakness of the 
memory. Decided anger may also be characteristic of the remedy. 
Any contradiction or dispute excites the patient furiously. He be- 
comes red in the face and his pugnacity is aroused. Mental labor be- 
comes irksome to the patient. He is very apt to suffer from head- 
aches which are of a congestive character, as has already been de- 
scribed. 

Aurum on the bones I can dismiss in a very few words, as much 
of it I have already given you. It is useful in caries of the cranial 
bones, and of the bones about the nose and palate, particularly after 
the abuse of mercury, whether the case be syphilitic or not. 



LECTURE LVIII. 

THE PREPARATIONS OF SILVER. 

Argentum Nitricum. 

( Arsenicum, Nitric acid. 
Argentum nitr. < Plumbum, Cuprum. 

( Zinc. >Natrum mur. 

Argentum nitricum, or the Nitrate of Silver, in its action on the 
brain and spine furnishes us with a list of symptoms that lead to the 
use of the remedy in many forms of nervous diseases, from simple ner- 
vous debility to full-fledged locomotor ataxia, or paralysis. Among 
the anomalous sensations which it causes are the following, which are 
characteristic of the drug: a very common general symptom which 
may be present in the headache, ovarian affections and in many other 
diseases, is this, a feeling as if the body or some part of the body were 
expanding. In the case of headache, the patient has a sensation, as if 
the head were enormously large. Sometimes, with the ovarian pains, 
the patient says that she feels as if there were an immense swelling in 
the side affected; and yet an examination shows no enlargement of the 
painful organ. We find this symptom under several other drugs, but 
very prominently under Argentum nitricum, however. Again, vertigo 
is almost always present when it is the remedy. This vertigo is asso- 
ciated with general debility and trembling from nervous weakness. 
The patient staggers and reels as if he were intoxicated. The vertigo 
is so severe at times that he becomes momentarily blind in association 
with mental confusion, buzzing in the ears, nausea and trembling. 
The patient suffers from mental anxiety. He is very impulsive. He 
must be always busy and yet he accomplishes nothing. He is subject 
to frequent errors of perception. He hurries restlessly about to fulfill 
an engagement, thinking that he will be too late, when, in reality, he 
has an hour or so more than is necessary. In some cases, there is pro- 
found melancholy. He imagines if left alone he will die; full of appre- 
hension that he has some incurable disease of the brain. He constantly 
makes mistakes as to his estimation of distances. For instance, when 



606 A ClvINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

walking the street, he dreads to pass a street corner, because the corner 
of the house seems to project and he is afraid that he will run against 
it. All these errors are traceable to imperfect coordination of muscles. 
This last is no imaginary symptom; it has been met with a number of 
times and it has been cured by Argentum nitriciim. 

This defective coordination of muscles is a prominent symptom in 
the disease known as locomotor ataxia, for the treatment of which allo- 
paths have long employed Argentum nitricum as a most valuable 
remedy. We also may use it when the following symptoms are pres- 
ent: the patient staggers in the dark or when his eyes are closed. 
The legs are weak and the calves feel bruised as after a long journey. 
There is a feeling of soreness in the lumbo-sacral region; also pain in 
the small of the back, very severe when rising from a sitting posture, 
but rather relieved by walking. Zincum is also better from walking 
and worse from sitting. The difference between the two remedies is 
that Argentum ?iitricum has pain when rising. Sometimes there is 
pain in the sacro-iliac symphyses, a feeling as if the bones were loose 
there. Here it is similar to sEsculus hippocastanum . Another symptom 
which I would like to specialize is trembling of the hands, which 
causes the patient to drop things. He is very nervous at night. 
When he does sleep, he has all sorts of horrible dreams. These nervous 
symptoms are especially worse at eleven a. m. So you see that Sul- 
phur is not the only remedy that has this eleven A. m. aggravation. 

You will at once see the resemblance between Argentum nitricum 
and Kali bromatum and Nalrum mur. That trembling weakness, with 
palpitation, is the exact counterpart of the Natrum mur. condition. 
This fearful and apprehensive mood, this imagining that he cannot 
pass a certain point, reminds you of Kali bromatum. 

But there are less severe symptoms that will call for Argentum nit- 
ricum, and one of them is what we may call functional paralysis, such 
as follows exhausting diseases, post-diphtheritic paralysis, for example. 
Gelsemium is here a concordant remedy of Argentum nitricum. 

Other nervous affections, for which we may use Argentum nitricum, 
are the following: it is one of the best remedies we have for hemi- 
crania. This is not a simple neuralgia. It is a deep-seated neurotic 
disease, and by some is supposed to be of epileptic nature. It comes 
periodically; for its relief the remedy under consideration is one of the 
best. There is frequently boring pain in the head, which is worse in 
the left frontal eminence. This boring is relieved by tight bandaging 



THE PREPARATIONS OF SILVER. 607 

of the head, hence the wearing of a tight-fitting silk hat relieves. 
It is excited by any mental emotion of an unpleasant kind, or by any- 
thing that depreciates the nervous system, as loss of fluids, loss of sleep 
or mental strain. Sometimes the pains become so severe that the 
patient loses his consciousness. The paroxysms frequently culminate 
in vomiting of bile or solid fluid. 

There is another form of headache which is mostly neuralgic, and for 
which Argentum nitricum is the remedy. The bones of the head feel 
as if they were separating, or the head feels as if it were enormously 
large. The pains about the head increase to such a degree that the 
patient almost loses her senses. These attacks end in vomiting, prob- 
ably to recur once more within a few minutes or an hour. 

We also find Argentum nitricum indicated in prosopalgia, particu- 
larly when the infraorbital branches of the fifth pair and the nerves 
going to the teeth are affected. The pain is very intense and at its 
height is accompanied by unpleasant sour taste in the mouth. The 
pains are of the same character as those already described for the hemi- 
crania. I do not believe that this sour taste in the mouth is of gastric 
origin, but I think that it is due to some abnormality or disturbance 
in the gustatory nerves. The face, in almost all these cases, is pale 
and sunken, rather sallow than pure pale, and in extreme cases, when 
the blood is very much affected, the surface of the body is of a dark, 
muddy, leaden hue. 

We also find Argentum nitricu?n indicated in that troublesome dis- 
ease, gastralgia, a neurosis of the stomach. It is especially indicated 
in delicate nervous women. The gastralgia is excited by any emotion, 
by loss of sleep, and frequently at the catamenial period. There is a 
feeling in the stomach as though there was a lump there. This is 
sometimes accompanied by gnawing ulcerative pain referred to the pit 
of the stomach. From this spot, pains radiate in every direction. 
These pains seem to increase and decrease gradually, just as under 
Stannum. With this there is apt to be intense spasm of the muscles 
of the chest. The patient cannot bear to have a handkerchief ap- 
proach the mouth, as it would cause dyspnoea. The patient cannot 
bear the least food because it makes this pain worse. Sometimes the 
pain is relieved by bending double and pressing the hand firmly into 
the stomach. The paroxysms end with vomiting of glairy mucus 
which can be drawn into strings, or what is more common, they are ac- 
companied with enormous accumulation of wind. The patient for 



608 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

a long time cannot belch, but when he does succeed in so doing, the 
flatus comes in an enormous volume. This is often accompanied with 
general tremor, and a nervous feeling, or by a sensation as if the head 
was being squeezed in a vise. 

The nearest ally to Argentum nitricum here, is Bismuth, which is 
indicated in pure nervous gastralgia. The main distinction between 
it and Argentum nitricum is in the vomiting. Just as soon as food 
touches the stomach it is ejected. 

Another nervous disease in which Argentum nitricum is indicated 
is epilepsy. The strong indicating symptom for Silver nitrate is this: 
for days or hours before an attack the pupils are dilated. After the 
attack, the patient is very restless and has trembling of the hands. It 
is especially indicated in epilepsy caused by fright or in that which 
comes on during menstruation. 

It may also be used for puerperal convulsions, when between the 
attacks, the patient is very restless, and tossing about, now on one side 
and now on the other. 

Nitrate of Silver is also indicated in angina pectoris. The patient 
complains of intense pain in the chest and about the heart. He can 
hardly breathe. 

We also find it indicated in pure nervous asthma. There are present 
spasms of the respiratory muscles. Marked with dyspnoea, worse in a 
crowded room. 

Leaving now the action of Argentum ?iitricum on the nervous sys- 
tem, we come to its use in inflammations and ulcerations. First of all, 
under this head, we will consider it in diseases of the eye. Nitrate of 
Silver cures purulent ophthalmia, and by this term I mean any inflam- 
mation of the lids or eyes which develops ulceration or pus. This pus 
is thick, yellowish and bland. It is useful in ophthalmia neonatorum 
when the pus is of the character just mentioned and is profuse. Es- 
pecially is it called for after the failure of Pulsatilla or one of the mer- 
curies. 

You may also use it for the purulent ophthalmia of adults with pus 
of this character. Like Pulsatilla, the symptoms are relieved in the 
open air and become intolerable in the warm room. 

In purulent ophthalmia, Pulsatilla stands very closely allied to Ar- 
gentum nitricum. You will notice that both have profuse, thick, bland, 
purulent discharge, and both have relief from the cool open air. It 
has been determined clinically that when Argentum nitricum ceases to 
act, a dose of Pulsatilla interpolated, helps. 



THE PREPARATIONS OF SILVER. 609 

You may also use Argentum nitricum in blepharitis when there are 
thick crusts on the lids, suppuration and induration of tissues. Even 
the cornea has become affected by the continued inflammation. The 
heat of the fire makes the patient a great deal worse. This symptom 
you also find under Mercurius. 

Granular conjunctivitis also calls for Arge?itum nitricum. The con- 
junctiva is almost scarlet, and there is profuse muco-purulent dis- 
charge. 

Rhus tox. is very similar to Argentum nitricum, but it has more 
spasmodic symptoms. There is spasmodic closure of the eyelids, and 
when you force them open, hot, scalding tears gush forth, and these 
cause pimples around the inflamed eyes. 

Euphrasia is similar in granular lids; it differs from Argentum 
nitricum in this: the purulent discharge is excoriating, and there is, in 
addition, excoriating lachrymation. 

Kreosote may be used in inflammation of the eyelids, whether in the 
infant or the adult. There is a discharge of hot, scalding tears from 
the eyes, occurring early in the morning. 

Argentum nitricum may be useful in asthenopia from want of accom- 
modation. Even the coarsest kind of work strains the eyes. 

Coming now to the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, we 
find Argentum nitricum producing a dark red appearance of the fauces. 
Thick mucus collects in the throat and the patient complains of a sen- 
sation as of a splinter there. With all this, there may be ulceration. 
The cause may be mercury, syphilis or scrofula. The papillae of the 
tongue are elevated. The gums are tender and bleed readily, but are 
very seldom swollen, thus giving you a distinction between it and 
Mercurius. There is often the sensation as of a splinter in the throat 
like Nitric acid, Alumina, etc. 

The larynx suffers from the action of Argeyitum nitricum. There is 
muco-purulent sputum, seeming to come from the posterior wall of the 
larynx. There is also marked hoarseness and sometimes even loss of 
voice. Singers frequently complain of a feeling as if there were some- 
thing clogging the vocal organs. 

Ma?iga?ium is similar to Nitrate of Silver, causing laryngeal symp- 
toms, particularly in anaemic or tubercular patients. The hoarseness 
is usually worse in the morning and grows better as they succeed in 
hawking up lumps of mucus. The Manganum patient has cough 
from loud reading, with painful dryness and roughness of the larynx. 
The cough is usually relieved by lying down. 
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6lO A CUNICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Selenium is also similar to Argentum nitricum. 

Paris quadrifolia is a neglected drug in laryngeal affections. We 
find it indicated when expectoration is noticed mostly in the morning 
and when it is green and tenacious. 

Nitrate of Silver may be used in ulceration of the cervix of the 
uterus when it is enlarged and indurated, with copious yellow, corrod- 
ing leucorrhcea and frequent bleeding from the points of ulceration. 

Next, I would refer you to the action of Argentum nitricum on the 
kidneys, because little attention is paid to this action of the drug. I 
think that it was Dr. Preston, of Norristown, who used the drug 
mostly in such cases. He gave it very frequently in nephralgia from 
congestion of the kidneys or from passage of calculi. The face is of a 
rather dark hue and has a dried-up look; there is dull aching across 
the small of the back and also over the region of the bladder. The 
urine burns while passing and the urethra feels as if swollen. There 
is sudden urging to urinate. The urine is dark and contains blood, or 
else a deposit of renal epithelium and uric acid. It is especially use- 
ful when Ca?itkaris, which it resembles, fails. 

Nitric acid is to be thought of for urinary calculi when the urine 
contains oxalic acid and when that substance is the principal ingredi- 
ent of the stone. 

Ivastly, I have to speak of the action of Argentum nitricum on the 
bowels. Here it is very similar to Arsenic. The stools are green and 
shreddy and consist of blood, slime and epithelium. This is often 
associated with the discharge of a great deal of flatus and is often pro- 
voked by the use of sugar. Especially is it indicated when diarrhoea 
follows any excitement, such as fright, the anticipation of some ordeal, 
or when the imagination has been played upon. The bowels are apt 
to move as soon as the least food or drink is taken. 

In cholera infantum it is indicated in children who are thin, dried-up 
looking, almost like mummies. The legs are apparently nothing but 
skin and bones. The stools are green and slimy, with noisy flatus, 
and are worse at night. 

Natrum mur. is the proper remedy to antidote the abuse of Argen- 
tum nitricum, or the after effects of cauterizing by the crude drug. 






THE PREPARATIONS OF SILVER. 6ll 



Argentum Metalucum. 



Argentum ?netallicum produces spasms which simulate those of 
epilepsy. The attacks are followed by delirious rage. The patient 
jumps about and tries to strike those near him. 

It produces spasmodic pain in various parts of the body; thus it 
gives rise to pain in the head, which gradually increases and, after 
reaching its acme, suddenly ceases. This pain is usually on the left 
side and is often associated with vertigo. The patient is extremely 
forgetful. The heart muscle sympathizes in these neuralgic pains. 
Thus, there will be spasmodic twitching of the heart muscle, particu- 
larly when the patient is lying on his back. 

Now, the debility which naturally follows is very easily understood 
if you remember one quality of the Argentum metallicum, and that is 
its action upon joints. It has a particular affinity for the cartilages of 
joints. Thus, we find general debility, with bruised feeling in the 
small of the back from the weakness of the spine, general weariness 
forcing the patient to lie down to obtain rest. The knees are particu- 
larly weak. There will be, not a true articular rheumatism, but an 
arthralgia, with pains of the same character as those of the head. All 
these symptoms are common enough. We find them in nervous, 
hysterical women and in men after loss of fluids, particularly semen. 

Argentum metallicum acts upon the mucous membrane of the throat 
and larynx. It produces in the larynx a copious exudation of pure 
mucus, not purulent or not serous, but looking exactly like boiled 
starch. It is associated with burning and rawness in the larynx, 
which rawness and burning are excited by talking and protracted use 
of the voice. The mucus is easily expectorated. 

Aigentum metallicum acts upon the left ovary, causing bruised pain 
in that organ and, sometimes, a feeling as though the ovary was 
growing large. {Argentum nitricum, the right ovary. ) This is a purely 
subjective sensation. Associated with this bruised pain there is often 
a prolapsed uterus. 



LECTURE LIX. 

PLATINA, PALLADIUM, AND ALUMINA. 

Platina. 



Platina. 



Mental symptoms. — Bell., Pallad., Phos., Lye. 

Nervous system. — Bell., Helon., Stan., Plumb. 

f Pallad., Arg. met., Helonias, 
Sexual organs pu p Aurum _ 



The action of Platina is to be studied under three headings, 
namely: the mental symptoms, its action on the nervous system in 
general, and its effects on the sexual organs of both the male and the 
female. The Platina patient is rather haughty and proud, egotistical. 
She seems to look down upon everybody and everything as beneath 
her. There is often accompanying this mental condition a peculiarity 
of vision; objects look smaller to her than natural. Platina also pro- 
duces an excitation of the mind and of the whole nervous system. 
Things seem horrible to her. In her imagination she sees ghosts, 
demons, etc. Here it resembles Kali bromatum and Hyoscyamus, both 
of which have this symptom. Everything seems strange to the pa- 
tient. When she enters her own home objects appear strange to her; 
she does not know where she is. At other times the patient is de- 
cidedly melancholy. She thinks that death is near at hand and she 
fears it, very much as we found under Arsenic and Aconite. Aconite 
predicts the hour or time of death, but otherwise the two drugs differ 
immeasurably. She may have a decidedly hysterical mood, with alter- 
nation of attacks of laughing and crying, especially when these are 
respectively inappropriate. Now these mental symptoms seem to de- 
pend upon excitement in the sexual sphere. The genitals, particu- 
larly those of the female, are acutely sensitive. There is constant 
titillation or tingling in the sexual organs, internally and externally. 
This excites the unfortunate victim to such a degree as to produce 
that horrible disease known as nymphomania. The patient seems to 
have the strength of a giant. She wishes to embrace everybody. 



PLATINA. 613 

These nymphomaniac symptoms are accompanied by prolapsus with in- 
duration of the uterus, just like Aurum. The ovaries are very sensi- 
tive, and are the seat of burning pains. Platina has even succeeded in 
curing ovaritis when pus has formed, and Hepar and Lachesis have 
been insufficient to effect its evacuation. The menses are too early 
and too profuse, and consist of dark, stringy, clotted blood. They 
are accompanied by spasms, or by painful bearing-down in the uterine 
region. Now these spasms of Platina are quite frequently met with 
in hysterical subjects. They consist of a sort of tetanic rigidity with 
trismus, and this alternates with dyspnoea. 

When, as will sometimes happen, nymphomania occurs as the re- 
sult of worms escaping into the vagina and there exciting irritation, 
Caladium is the remedy. 

This menstrual flow of Platina brings to mind two or three other 
remedies, which are here deserving of mention. Crocus has a dark or 
black clotted flow, with or without miscarriage, and associated with a 
sensation as if there were something moving around in the abdomen. 

Chamomilla has profuse, dark, clotted menstrual flow, but its mental 
symptoms are different from those of Platinum. 

Millefolium and Sabina have bright-red, partly-clotted blood. 

Belladonna, like Platina, has a sensation in the forehead as if all 
would come out; face burning red; bearing down in uterus, etc.; but 
in Belladoyina the pains come and go suddenly, and the flow is bright; 
or, if dark, it is offensive in odor. 

Lycopodium is the nearest analogue in the egotistic state of mind. 

The Platina patient often suffers from neuralgia in various parts of 
the body. These neuralgias are very easily studied on account of 
their well-marked characteristic symptoms. The pains are of a cramp- 
ing character, and cause numbness and tingling in the parts affected. 
You find them frequently in the head. There will be pain at the root 
of the nose, as though the part were squeezed in a vise, and this is fol- 
lowed by tingling and numbness, which will indicate to you that it is 
in the course of the nerves that this symptom lies. The pains in- 
crease gradually, and decrease just as gradually as they came, as you 
will find under Stannum. 

Now, in these neuralgic symptoms, the nearest remedy we have to 
Platina is Belladoyina. In both remedies there is decided congestion 
of the head, with bright red face and delirium, but the gradually in- 
creasing, and just as gradually decreasing, pains distinguish Platina 
from Belladonna. 



6 14 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

Capsicum is suited to patients of lax fibre who suffer from burning 
pungent pain in the face, worse from the slightest draught of air, 
whether warm or cold. 

Verbascum is indicated in prosopalgia when there is a numbing, 
crushing as with tongs in the painful parts, worse from talking, sneez- 
ing, change of temperature, at times associated with numbness, and 
daily from 9 A. m. to 4 p. m. 

Gnaphalium has neuralgia alternating with numbness, especially in 
the lower limbs. 

Arse?iicum has prosopalgia, with darting, needle-like, burning pains. 

I have yet a few words to say about the action of Platina on the 
male system generally. We find it indicated for the ill-effects of pre- 
pubic masturbation. It is called for by the melancholy and the sheep- 
ish look that the children have. Also when, as a result of this un- 
natural vice, spasms of an epileptiform character appear. The youth 
has hollow eyes and yellow skin. During the attack the face is pale 
and sunken; in fact, it may be so at all times. Consciousness is not 
often lost. The limbs are usually drawn up and thus spread apart. 

It may also be used for spasms during labor. Teething children 
may require Platina when they are anaemic and pale; the jaws are 
locked, and after the spell the child lies on its back with flexed legs 
and knees widely separated. The spasms, both in adults and children, 
alternate between convulsive actions and opisthotonos. 

Platina may also be used in hysterical spasms or spasms caused by 
nervous excitement, when they are preceded or followed by constric- 
tion of the oesophagus and respiratory embarrassment, a sort of 
asthma in other words; sudden arrest of breathing when walking 
against the wind. In this last symptom it is similar to Calcarea 
ostrearum and Arsenicum. Moschus is similar to it in hysteria. 

In its abdominal symptoms, Platina very much resembles Plumbum, 
and it has been used very successfully for the cure of the well-known 
colic produced by the latter remedy. Like Plumbum, Platina produces 
a constipation from inertia of the bowels. It is attended with frequent 
unsuccessful urging to stool. The stools when passed seem to be like 
putty or glue, and adhere tenaciously to the anus. It has been highly 
recommended for the constipation of emigrants. 

The Chloride of Platinum has only one symptom that I care to men- 
tion, and that is caries of the tarsus. You may use it in syphilitic 
cases, or after the abuse of mercury. 



PALLADIUM. 615 

Platina has some further action on the female genital organs, as I 
have already intimated. It is useful in cases of indurated and pro- 
lapsed uterus, associated with continual pressure in the groins and 
back; parts are painfully sensitive to touch. The patient exhibits 
sensitiveness, even vaginismus, during coitus. 

In indurated uterus compare Sepia, Aurum (which has more suicidal 
mania), Argentum nitricam and Helonias. 

For sensitiveness to coitus compare Sepia, Belladonna (from dry 
vagina), Kreosote (when followed by bloody flow), Ferrum, Natrum 
mur., Apis (when associated with stinging in ovaries), Thzija, etc. 

Palladium. 

Palladium is chemically and symptomatically near to Plati?ia. It is 
of use principally for its action on the female genital organs. Its 
characteristic mental symptoms seem to find origin in the sexual 
symptoms, and form, with the latter, a useful and precise group for 
practical use. The patient is inclined to weep. She suffers from 
mental excitement, particularly in company. She always, has an ag- 
gravation of her symptoms* the day following an evening's entertain- 
ment. She is easily put out of humor, and is then inclined to use 
pretty strong language. She imagines herself very much neglected, 
and as she attaches great importance to the good opinion of others, 
this annoys her very much. The Platina woman is very different. 
She is egotistical in another form. Under Palladium, pride is easily 
wounded. In Platiiia the patient is haughty and egotistical; she looks 
down on others as not being good enough for her. 

Palladium has a very characteristic headache, which makes the pa- 
tient very irritable. It extends across the top of the head from ear to 
ear. The face is sallow, with blue rings around the eyes. There are 
also nausea, usually worse in the evening, and very acid eructations. 
The bowels are constipated, the stools often being whitish in color. 

We come now. to the special uterine symptoms of Palladium, and 
these we find quite numerous. They are as follows: soreness in the 
abdomen with downward pressure, a very common symptom in uterine 
diseases; pain in the uterus and bladder after any exertion during the 
day; knife-like cutting pains in the uterus, which are relieved after 
stool; constant tired feeling in the small of the back; she is so tired 
that she actually reels; she feels drowsy; she complains that she feels 



6i6 



A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 



sore and bruised all over; heaviness as from lead, deeply seated in the 
pelvis, worse from any exertion, and worse standing; walking is much 
less irksome to her than is standing; lying on the left side relieves; 
swelling in the region of the right ovary, with shooting pains from 
navel into the pelvis, and with this there is bearing down, relieved by 
rubbing. Jelly-like leucorrhoea. These local symptoms, together 
with those of the mind, make up the complete Palladium picture. 

Argentum metallicum, like Palladium, has affections of the ovaries 
and uterus. It is useful in prolapsus uteri when accompanied by symp- 
toms of the left ovary. The special characteristic sensation in Ar- 
gentum metallicum is a feeling as though the left ovary were growing 
enormously large. 

Still another drug is Lilium tigrinum. This resembles Palladium 
and Platinum both, and you will have to keep these three remedies to- 
gether in your minds. They all have irritability, "easily angered," 
and " things don't go right," but only Palladium has this over-sensi- 
tiveness to offence, and only Platinum the hauteur. 

Helonias is also similar to Palladium, in its irritability, soreness and. 
above all, a feeling of " tiredness." 



Alumina. 



V . 
Bryonia. 



ALUMINA. 

Puis, (chlorosis, ozaena), Calc. ostr. 

(fears crazy), Lach. (worse awaking), 

Sepia. 
Plumbum (colic). 
Arg. n., Nuxv., Sulph. (spine). 
Mercurius (bubo). 
Bry., Cham, (stomach). 
Ruta, Con., Natr. m., Sep., 
Graph., Zinc. 



Eyes. 



Blood. 

Nerves. 

Mucous mem- 
branes. 

Glands. 

Stomach, liver 
and bowels. 

Genitals. 

Ivarynx. 

Skin. 



>Cham. 
>Bry. 



Alumina or the oxide of Alumi?iium, is a form of pure clay and is 
known as argilla. According to Hering, the symptoms which Hart- 
laub obtained are not pure, because he simply washed his preparation 
of clay, while Hahnemann subjected his to a red heat. 



ALUMINA. 617 

You notice by the table on the board that I have placed Bryonia as 
the complement of Alumina. This is particularly true of the gastric 
symptoms. These drugs follow each other well in gastro-enteric affec- 
tions. Bryonia, also, acts as an antidote to Alumina, as does also 
Chamomilla. I have placed several of the concordant remedies with a 
few words in parenthesis to indicate the points of resemblance. Thus 
Pulsatilla is marked by chlorosis and ozsena, showing that in these two 
affections particularly, Pulsatilla is concordant with Alumina. Then 
you notice that Plumbum is similar to it in colic, smdiVux and Sulphur 
in spinal affections, etc. 

Alumina acts best in aged persons of spare habits, who are rather 
wrinkled and dried-up looking, or in girls at puberty, especially if they 
are chlorotic, and also in delicate or scrofulous children, particularly 
children who have been artificially fed — that is, nourished by the 
many varieties of baby foods with which the market is glutted. Such 
children are weak and wrinkled; nutrition is decidedly defective. The 
bowels are inactive. This constipation is characteristic. There is a 
great deal of difficulty in voiding the stool even though the faeces be 
soft, showing you at once that the inactivity of the bowels is the main 
influence at work in its causation. Here, it is like Bryonia. Except- 
ing that the latter has more hardness and dryness of the faecal matter. 
The child suffers from ozaena or chronic nasal catarrh, with a great 
deal of dryness of the nose. This you know by the dry sniffling sound 
which the child makes in breathing through its nose. The child, too, 
when teething, may suffer from strabismus. This comes from weak- 
ness of the internal rectus muscle of the affected eye. This symptom 
is sometimes curable by medicine, and when it is so, this method is 
preferable to any surgical procedure. Sometimes, it follows worms. 
Then Ci?ia is the remedy; when it comes from brain irritation, Bella- 
donna; and Cyclajnen when from menstrual or gastric irregularities. 

The Alumi?ia patient is very low-spirited and inclined to weep, like 
Pulsatilla, and this low-spiritedness is worse on awakening, here re- 
sembling Lachesis, Pulsatilla, Sepia, etc. At other times, you find the 
patient troubled with an apprehensive state of mind, a fear that he will 
go crazy, and this is an exact counter part of Calcarea ostrearum, 
Iodine, etc. This shows you the irritable state of brain fibre. Another 
peculiarity that may be present, particularly in hysteria, is suicidal 
tendency when the patient sees blood, or a knife, or something of that 
kind. 



6l8 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Men in whom Alumina is useful are hypochondriacal. There is a 
great deal of lassitude and indifference to labor or work. An hour 
seems to them half a day. They are exceedingly peevish and fretful; 
and here you find Alumina rivalling Nux vomica and also Bryonia. 

Now, on the right side of the board, you will notice several headings 
under which I propose to consider Alumina. First, what changes are 
made in the blood by Alumina? I cannot tell you how it alters the 
blood, but there are diseases of the blood to which it is applicable, and 
it is convenient here to bring these to your notice. We find it indi- 
cated in anaemia, and also in chlorosis, especially in 3^oung girls at 
puberty, when the menses are pale and scanty, and there is an abnormal 
craving for certain indigestible articles, such as slate pencils, chalk, 
whitewash, etc. The leucorrhcea to which they are subject is usually 
transparent, and quite ropy and tenacious, or else is composed of yel- 
lowish mucus, which is profuse, sometimes running down the limbs to 
the feet. This exhausts them very much, because it is rich in albumen. 
With these symptoms, you will almost always find the mental states 
that I have given you. 

Now in nervous affections. Alumina has been used in nervous af- 
fections of a very grave character. Boenninghausen used the metal 
Aluminium for the following symptoms in that dreaded disease, loco- 
motor ataxia: frequent dizziness; objects turn in a circle; ptosis, 
diplopia or strabismus; inability to walk in the dark or with the eyes 
closed without staggering; feels as if walking on cushions. There is 
formication, or sensation as from creeping of ants in the back and legs. 
The nates go to sleep when sitting. The heels become numb when 
walking. A feeling in the face as though it was covered with cob- 
webs, or as though the white of an egg had dried on it. Pain in the 
back, as though a hot iron were thrust into the spine. These are the 
symptoms indicating Alumina, and these are the symptoms which led 
Boenninghausen to Aluminium, and enabled him to cure four cases of 
the disease. 

Next, the mucous membranes. Alumifia is a unique drug here. It 
acts in a limited but very well-described class of cases. It causes un- 
mistakable dryness of the mucous surfaces. If you keep that fact in 
mind you can explain all the symptoms which it causes. You have at 
once the key to its dyspepsia, nasal catarrh, sore throat and constipa- 
tion. There is dryness of the mucous membranes. After a while, 
there is formation of mucus, which is thick, yellow, and very difficult 



ALUMINA. 619 

of detachment. Let me show you a few illustrations of this. In the 
eyes, for instance, it will be indicated in blepharitis particularly, with 
great dryness of the conjunctiva. The lids feels stiff and they crack, 
so dry are they. The nearest analogue here is Graphites, which has 
the same symptoms, only it has more bleeding than has Alumina. 

Alumina is useful in asthenopia from irritated conjunctiva; also in 
granular lids and chronic blepharitis. 

For dry eyes, Allen recommends, also, Berberis, Natrum carb. , and 
Natrum sulph. 

Eyes dry on reading, Crocus, Arge?ttum nitricum, Cina, Natrum 
mur. 

Drooping eyelids, Nux moschata, Sepia, Rhus, Gelsemium. 

Alumiyia also has loss of power over the internal rectus. Here it is 
like Agaricus, Jaborandi, Conium, Ruta, and Natrum mur. The 
latter, according to Woodyat, is the best. 

In nasal catarrh you will find Alumina indicated in children with 
great dryness of the nose, formation of scabs and remotely, thick, 
tenacious yellow phlegm or mucus, which is difficult of removal. 

The cough indicating Alu??iina is dry and spasmodic. It is worse 
in the morning when the patient coughs until he detaches a small 
amount of tightly adherent mucus, which relieves for a while. 

You find it indicated in disease of the throat, in a relaxed condition 
of the mucous membrane, just that condition you meet with in clergy- 
men's sore-throat. The throat is very dry on waking with husky, 
weak voice. It is dark red, the uvula elongated. The patient is 
better from hot drinks. Hoarseness appears worse in the morning, 
with a feeling as of a splinter in the throat when swallowing. This 
last symptom you find also under Hepar, Argentum nitricum, Nitric 
acid, etc. 

The mucous membrane of the stomach is dry, and, therefore, there 
is defective secretion of gastric juice. Here you have the same dys- 
pepsia as is curable with Bryo?iia. The distinctive symptoms for 
Alumina are these: there is a feeling of constriction along the 
oesophagus when swallowing food. The patient is always worse from 
eating potatoes; that is a good indication for Alumina. There is 
aversion to meat and a craving for indigestible substances. The liver 
is sensitive to touch, and there are stitching pains in that organ, as 
under Bryonia. You find the constipation with urging to stool already 
described, even though the stool be not dry and hard. Piles itch and 
burn, and are moist. 



620 A CLINICAL MATERIA MBDICA. 

Next, we consider the action of Alumina on glands. Here I have 
only one symptom for you, and that is the use of the drug in treating 
buboes. You may give it in gonorrhceal bubo when there exists with 
it a yellowish gonorrhceal discharge, with burning and itching along 
the urethra, particularly at the meatus. 

Lastly, the skin. Alumi?ia acts here just as it does on the mucous 
membranes, producing dryness and harshness of the skin; as a conse- 
quence, we find it indicated in rough, dry eruptions, which crack and 
may bleed, although not often, and which itch and burn intolerably, 
and are worse in the warmth of the bed. 

You will recall here that Argentum nitricum, Nux vomica, and Sul- 
phur are similar to Alumina in spinal affections. 

Mercurius is the most similar remedy. 

Alumina has been used as an antidote to the colic caused by Plum- 
bum. 



LECTURE LX. 

PLUMBUM AND STANNUM. 

Plumbum Metalucum. 

( Belladonna, Platina, Nux vomica, Cuprum, Opium. 
Plumbum. < < Opium. 

( China. ^ ( Alumina. 

The symptoms of Plumbum, or lead, may be studied from its main 
property, that is, its tendency to cause contraction of muscular fibre, 
both voluntary and involuntary. It will cause this contraction of 
muscles, and it will also cause contraction of the bloodvessels, because 
it affects the involuntary or non-striated muscular fibres. The first 
symptom that usually follows poisoning by lead, whether taken by the 
stomach in small doses, as in case of drinking water impregnated with 
it, or whether by inhalation, as in the case of painters, is lead colic, 
and this consists of horrible griping cramp-pains, with retraction of 
the abdominal walls, making the abdomen concave rather than convex. 
There is understood to be spasm of the recti muscles; as these are con- 
tracted, of course they draw the abdominal walls in. Pain radiates in 
all directions, generally following the course of the nerves, sometimes 
causing delirium when extending to the brain, dyspnoea when involv- 
ing the chest, retraction of the testicles when extending in that direc- 
tion, and violent cramps in the legs when reaching the nerves there. 
With this colic there is obstinate constipation, and in some cases, even 
stercoraceous vomiting. 

The colic is antidoted by Alumi?ia, Alume?i, Platina, Opium, Nux 
vomica, Arsenicum, Colocyntk, Sulphuric acid, Zincum, or Belladonna, 
and is prevented by alcohol. 

Next the symptoms of Plumbum that are of a paralytic character. 
The first characteristic symptom here is wrist-drop from paralysis of 
the extensor muscles of the wrist. This Plumbum has cured when it 
has arisen from other causes than lead-poisoning. This paralysis ex- 
tends to other parts of the body, always involving extensor muscles in 



622 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

preference to flexors. There appears on the border of the gums a blue 
line, known as the gingival line of lead poisoning. It is caused by 
the sulphur that exists in the tartar on the teeth combining with the 
lead in the bloodvessels, and forming a deposit of insoluble sulphide of 
lead. As I have said, the paralysis extends and involves other parts 
of the body, and then it is characterized by atrophy of the affected 
parts, which is therefore due to true organic changes. Thus you find 
Plumbum indicated in paralysis from disease of the spinal cord when 
that nervous structure has undergone fatty degeneration or sclerosis. 

Plumbum suits very nicely that disease known as multiple cerebro- 
spinal sclerosis. It is indicated by this symptom: tremor, followed by 
paralysis. 

We often find Plumbum indicated in paralysis with contracture. 

Progressive muscular atrophy may also call for Plumbum. 

Plumbum tends to produce non-development of the uterus. We 
may, therefore, find it indicated in cases of tendency to abortion. The 
foetus in utero increases in size, but the muscular fibres of the uterus 
do not develop in proportion, hence the uterus is no longer able to ac- 
commodate the growing foetus and abortion ensues. 

Sometimes we find Plumbum indicated in delirium, very much like 
that of Belladonna; the patient bites and strikes at those near him; but 
it differs from that of Belladonna in this: there is tremor of the head 
and hands, and yellow mucus collects about the mouth and teeth. 
The delirium, moreover, alternates with colic, which is not the case in 
Belladonna . 

Other cerebral disturbances from lead-poisoning are not common, 
but still the following may be met with: insomnia, severe headache, 
either occipital or frontal, with or without vertigo; noises in ear; dis- 
ordered vision; diplopia; amaurosis; contraction of pharynx, though 
liquids are swallowed in gulps and greedily; mind weak, morose, and 
sad; preceded by albuminous urine. 

Plumbum has frequently caused epilepsy. The characteristic symp- 
toms which indicate it are paralytic heaviness of the legs before the 
attack, and paralysis and prolonged snoring sleep afterwards. It is 
especially indicated in convulsions from cerebral sclerosis or tumor. 

In constipation you may use Plumbum when the retraction of the 
abdomen already mentioned is present, and when there is marked 
spasm or contraction of the sphincter ani. There is urging to stool, 
and the patient complains of a sensation as though a string were draw- 
ing the anus up into the rectum. 



STANNUM. 



623 



It may be mentioned in passing that Baryta carbonica has a colic with 
retraction of the umbilicus like Lead. Thallium has the same symp- 
tom as an accompaniment of violent lancinating pains through the 
stomach and bowels, following each other rapidly like electric shocks. 
This remedy has relieved the fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia. 

In its action on the kidneys Plumbum produces granular degenera- 
tion or cirrhosis of those organs. There is very little dropsy or albu- 
minuria, but a marked tendency to uraemia and consequent convul- 
sions. 

Stannum. 



( Causticum. 
Stannum. \ Phosphorus, Sulphur. 
Sepia, Pulsatilla, etc. 



\ 



V 

Pulsatilla. 



f Exhaustion. 

Paralysis. 
Nerves. < . 

bpasms. 

^ Neuralgia. 

Mucous membranes. 

Fevers. 

Organs. 



Stan?ium is a drug that has not many symptoms; hence it can be 
disposed of very quickly. Its complement is Pulsatilla. 

The Sta?i?ium patient is usually sad and lachrymose, just like Pul- 
satilla. Crying usually makes the patient worse. This low-spirited- 
ness is found in the lung troubles for which Stannum is your remedy. 
This is rather different from the usual mental state of consumptives, 
who, you all know, are generally hopeful, almost to the last hour of 
life. Stannum is particularly indicated when they are low-spirited, 
hence it is rarely indicated in true tuberculosis. The woman for 
whom Sta?mzim is indicated is also nervous and weak; so nervous, 
irritable, and weak is she, that she becomes anxious and has palpita- 
tion of the heart, even from so little exertion as giving directions con- 
cerning her household affairs. She complains of a sensation of gone- 
ness in the stomach and chest. This nervous exhaustion is exhibited 
in various ways; it is particularly induced when the patient goes down 
stairs, more than when ascending. She feels as if she could not walk 
down stairs, or as if she had not sufficient strength in her limbs. 



624 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

This exhaustion may be exhibited in another way: the patient does 
not complain much about walking, but on trying to sit down she 
fairly drops into the chair. This is not an imaginary symptom. 
You will meet it in uterine affections. 

In the mental symptoms you may compare Stannum with Natrum 
mur., Pulsatilla, and Sepia. Natrum mur. has melancholy, sad, weep- 
ing mood, but consolation seems to aggravate. On trying to comfort 
him, he becomes enraged. 

The Pulsatilla patient is of a mild, tearful, yielding disposition. 
She rather likes consolation. She has scanty, delayed menses, while 
Stannum has the opposite. 

The Sepia patient has sadness concerning her own health, while she 
exhibits great indifference to her family. She is easily offended and 
is inclined to be vehement. 

In this relaxation of tissue, producing goneness or weakness, we 
have several remedies. First of all, when you find patients are weak 
from talking, compare: Cocculus, Veratrum alb., Phosphoric acid, Sul- 
phur, Sulphuric acid and Calcarea ostrearum. 

For the functional paralysis that may come from fatigue or from 
mental emotions, compare with Stan?ium, Cocculus, Ig?iatia, Phospho- 
rus, Natrum mur. and Collinsonia. 

The Stannum patient is troubled with disordered digestion, other- 
wise called dyspepsia. There are nausea and vomiting in the morn- 
ing, or, as in Colchicum, the odor of cooking causes vomiting. This 
last symptom is a particularly strong indication for Stannum, espe- 
cially in women. There is weak, gone feeling in the stomach, as in 
Sepia ; also bitter taste in the mouth. The rectum is inactive. Much 
urging is required to evacuate even a soft stool. The face is apt to be 
pale and sunken, with dark rings around the eyes. These symptoms 
indicate debility, with which women suffer, and they may call for the 
exhibition of Stamium when worms are present. Even when con- 
vulsions result from the irritation of these parasites, Sta?inum is still 
the remedy if other symptoms agree, thus placing it alongside of Cina, 
Artemisia, etc. 

Men may require Stannum when they are hypochondriacal. They 
have gastralgic pains, which compel them to walk about for relief, and 
they are so weak that this exercise is very fatiguing to them. The 
tongue is coated yellowish. 

The Sta?inum patient suffers from prolapsus uteri. This prolapsus 



STANNUM. 625 

so often calls for Stannum, that Dr. Richard Hughes generally finds 
this remedy useful for simple prolapsus uteri. You will find, too, that 
under Stannum the vagina is prolapsed. These prolapsus symptoms 
are worse during stool. The menses are always profuse. The leucor- 
rhcea corresponds with the prevailing character of the drug. It is 
yellowish or else it is clear mucus, and is always associated with un- 
bearable weakness. The patient is so weak that she can scarcely 
move about. The prostration is so great that, on dressing in the 
morning, she has to sit down several times to rest. There is trem- 
bling of the arms and legs. The limbs feel as heavy as lead. This 
weakness is always worse when descending, as when going down 
stairs or assuming a sitting posture. These uterine symptoms may be 
associated with weak or gone. feeling in the chest. The patient feels 
so weak she can scarcely talk. 

As somewhat similar to Stannum in prolapsus uteri, with aggrava- 
tion of symptoms during* stool, you may remember Podophyllum, which 
has prolapsus uteri with diarrhoea. The stool is usually green, and 
comes with a rush. 

Calcarea phosphorica, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla should also be studied 
in this connection. 

As you might expect, a patient, so thoroughly weakened as to the 
nervous system as is the Stannum patient, must suffer from neuralgia. 
The general characteristic guiding you to its use is, the pains increase 
and decrease slowly. They are especially liable to occur in the course 
of the supra-orbital nerve. With this character to the pain, we find 
Stannum useful in prosopalgia following intermittent fever and abuse 
of quinine. 

In these pains that increase and decrease slowly, the nearest rem- 
edies are Platina and Strontiana carb. Spigelia, Kalmia and Natrurn 
mur. also have the symptom, though perhaps less markedly. 

Epilepsy has been treated with Stannum, particularly when reflex 
from abdominal irritation, as from the presence of worms in the intes- 
tinal canal. The patient has a pale face and dark rings around the 
eyes, and colic, which is relieved by pressing firmly on the abdomen. 
If the child is old enough to describe his sensations, he will complain 
of a sweetish taste in the mouth. It is also useful in epilepsy with 
sexual complications; opisthotonos; clenching of the thumbs. 

Hysterical spasms may also call for Stannum, especially when asso- 
ciated with pain in the abdomen and diaphragm. 
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626 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Next, the action of Stannum on mucous membranes. When it is 
the remedy, you find that there is copious secretion from the mucous 
membranes. This is bland and unirritating, and is yellowish or 
yellowish-green; hence it is a muco-purulent secretion. Sometimes, 
although not so often, this mucus is tenacious, viscid and intermixed 
with blood. It accumulates in the throat and is detached with great 
difficulty, even exciting vomiting. The mucus collects very rapidly 
in the chest and is quite easily expectorated, with great relief to the 
patient. The oppression, the weakness, and the tightness of the chest 
are all relieved when this sputum is raised. The voice, which is 
husky and hoarse, seems to be raised in pitch by this expectoration. 
Dyspnoea, too, is decidedly better after expectoration. The cough is 
very annoying and teasing. It is worse at night, and is excited by 
talking and walking rapidly. The patient, in addition, complains of 
that weakness of the chest. It seems as if he had no strength there 
whatever. Dyspnoea comes on, worse towards evening. 

Now these are the symptoms w 7 hich indicate Stannum in cases of 
neglected cold. They also suggest the drug in what has been very 
properly termed catarrhal phthisis. There is marked hectic fever. 
The chills come characteristically at ten o'clock in the morning. To- 
wards evening the patient becomes flushed and hot, with aggravation 
of his symptoms on any exertion. At night he has profuse sweat, 
which is particularly worse towards four or five o'clock in the morn- 
ing. L,et me say here that in this hectic fever, with chill at ten o'clock 
in the morning, I have several times tried Natrnm mur. } but without 
obtaining any benefit from it. 

Stannum is a remedy which you must select with great care, or it 
will surely disappoint you. This symptom of weakness must be pres- 
ent if you expect results. When you find Stannum insufficient in 
catarrhal phthisis, you may think of the following remedies: 

Silicea is indicated in catarrhal as well as in true tubercular phthisis 
when there is cough, which is increased by rapid motion. There is 
copious rattling of phlegm in the chest. The expectoration is more 
purulent than that of Stannum. There are usually vomicae in the 
lungs. You will find Silicea frequently indicated in the catarrhal 
phthisis of old people. 

Phosphorus must often be carefully compared with Stannum, as the 
two remedies are frequently misused for each other. Both have hoarse- 
ness, evening aggravation, weak chest, cough, copious sputum, hectic, 
etc. Phosphorus has more blood or blood-streaks, tightness across the 



STANNUM. 627 

chest, aggravation from lying on the left side and thirst for ice-cold 
water. 

Se?iega is a drug which produces great soreness in the w T alls of the 
chest and great accumulation . of clear albuminous mucus, which is 
difficult of expectoration. These symptoms are often accompanied by 
pressure on the chest as though the lungs w 7 ere pushed back to the 
spine. It is especially indicated in fat persons of lax fibre. This 
Senega contains Senegin or Polygalic acid, which is identical in com- 
position with Saponin, the active principle of the Quillaya saponaria. 
This also produces the same kind of relaxed cold as the Senega does. 

Coccus cacti is useful in whooping cough, with vomiting of great 
ropes of clear albuminous mucus. It may be useful in catarrhal 
phthisis when, with this ropy phlegm, there are sharp stitching pains 
under the clavicles. 

Balsam of Peru is indicated in catarrhal phthisis by copious puru- 
lent expectoration. We know but little concerning this drug. We 
must, therefore, adopt the expedient of selecting it by a process of ex- 
clusion. 

Yerba sa?ita or the Eriodiction Californicum is indicated when there 
is asthmatic breathing from accumulation of mucus. There are con- 
siderable emaciation and fever. 

Among other remedies with much phlegm on the chest are Anti- 
monium crudum and tartar icu?n, Ckamomilla, Belladonna, Calcarea 
ostrearu?n, Calcarea phosphoidca and Ipecacuanha (in children), Lyco- 
podium, Sulphur, Phosphorus, Balsam of Peru (purulent sputum), He- 
par, Scilla, Yerba santa (fever, emaciation, asthma from mucus), Co- 
paiva (profuse greenish-gray, disgusting-smelling sputa); Illicium 
anisatum (pus, with pain at third cartilage, right or left) ; Plx liq : 
(purulent sputum; pain at left third costal cartilage); Myosotis (copi- 
ous sputa, emaciation, night sweat). 

In pleurisy you find Stannum indicated by sharp, knife-like stitches, 
beginning in the left axilla, and extending up into the left clavicle. 
Sometimes they extend from the left side down into the abdomen. 
They are worse from bending forward, from pressure and on inspira- 
tion. 

Stannum is sometimes used in functional paralysis arising from 
onanism or from emotions. Sometimes persons of the weak, nervous 
temperament I have described are so affected by emotions as to lose 
the power of motion. Here Stannum compares with Staphisagria and 
Natrum mur. 



LECTURE LXL 

CUPRUM AND ZINCUM. 



Cuprum. 



V 
Calc. ostr. 



Cuprum Metaulicum. 



Suuphur. 

Argentum nitricum, Arseni- 
cum, Veratr. alb. 

Colocynth, Puumbum, Cho- 
los terrapinse. 

Stramonium, Belladonna, 
Hyos. 



r 



Sugar. 
Albumen. 



i. Blood.— 

a. Chlorosis. 

b. Fever. 

c. Heart. 

2. Nerves. — 

a. Spasms. 

b. Cramps. 

c. Neuralgia. 

d. Lack of reaction. 

e. Paralysis. 

3. Collapse. — 



Cuprum metaixicum and Cuprum aceticum are used interchange- 
ably by many physicians as having the same symptomatology. The 
original idea of those who proposed the substitution of the latter for 
the former was based on the supposition that the acetate of copper is 
soluble, while the metallic copper is not. This applies, of course, to 
the crude drug, but not to the potentized preparations. 

Copper has for its complement Calcarea ostrearum. It is antidoted 
by sugar and albumen. Hepar, as a general astidote to the metals, 
comes into play as a dynamic antidote, as do also Belladonna and 
Stramonium. Copper possesses considerable interest as a prophylactic 
in disease. Workers in copper seldom contract Asiatic cholera. Here 
it resembles Sulphur. Unlike Sulphur, however, it is a remedy for 
the symptoms of cholera. It is indicated for the following symptoms: 
intense coldness of the surface of the body, blueness of the skin, cramps 
of the muscles, the muscles of the calves and thighs are drawn up into 
knots. There is considerable distress, referred by the patient to the 
epigastrium, and this is associated with most intense dyspnoea. So 
intense is the dyspnoea that the patient cannot bear his handkerchief 
approached to his face; it takes away his breath. Now, this picture 



CUPRUM. 629 

of Cuprum seems to place it between Camphor and Argentum ?iitricum. 
Camphor has symptoms of collapse, like Cuprum; and Argentum nitri- 
cum has terrible distress in the epigastrium with dyspnoea. It differs 
from Camphor \n this: Camphor lacks the prominence of the cramps 
which are ever present in the collapse of Cuprum. 

There is another condition in which Cuprum may be used, and that 
is in the uraemia or ursemic convulsions following cholera. The char- 
acter of these convulsions will appear in a few minutes when I speak 
of the nervous symptoms of the remedy. 

We find Ctiprum indicated in chlorosis, after the abuse of iron. The 
symptoms are worse in hot weather. 

We also find it indicated in fever with marked tendency to frequent 
relapses; hence, in a sort of relapsing fever. It is not the specific re- 
lapsing fever, but rather a fever in which the relapses are the result of 
defective reaction. 

Cuprum, when taken in large doses, produces an inflammatory colic, 
presenting a combination of neurotic with inflammatory symptoms; 
these are gastro-enteric. We find the abdomen as hard as a stone; the 
bowels are, at first, obstinately constipated, the constipation being suc- 
ceeded at times by bloody, greenish, watery stools. The vomiting is 
terrific and is spasmodic in its character. It seems to be relieved by a 
drink of cold water. Hence it is very different from Arsenicum, 
Veratrum and other remedies. Now, what takes place in this group 
of symptoms ? In the first place, Cuprum not only acts on the bowels, 
inflaming them, but it acts upon the nerves, causing constriction of 
fibre, particularly of the involuntary muscular fibres, as in the blood- 
vessels, and with this we have direct irritation producing inflammation. 
Now, to clearly understand the character of Cuprum, you must re- 
member the other side to this picture. This condition is soon followed 
by collapse with great prostration, from which it is exceedingly difficult 
for the patient to rally. Thus, we have as a remote symptom of 
Cuprum, and one, too, which has been greatly neglected, lack of reaction. 
We have seen that- quite a number of remedies are useful in this condi- 
tion. We all know that Sulphur may often be used; we have learned 
under what circumstances Carbo veg. is called for; that Laurocerasus , 
Valerian and Ambra grisea are suited in some nervous temperaments; 
Capsicum in flabby, lazy individuals of lax fibre, and Psori?ium in well- 
marked psoric cases. But here we have, when Cuprum is the remedy, a 
tendency of all the symptoms to relapse. Especially is it an indication 



630 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

when this lack of reaction occurs in persons who are thoroughly 
11 run down " by overtaxing both body and mind. I know of a case 
in which Cuprum prevented paralysis of both legs, and this was the 
indication; deciding its choice was the fact that the disease was caused 
by overtaxing of both brain and body. 

So, too, in pneumonia, we may have to use Cuprum to bring about 
reaction before the appropriate remedy will cure. It is indicated by 
sudden suffocative attacks, with coldness of the surface of the body, 
with great prostration and dyspnoea disproportionate to the amount of 
solidification. The body is covered with a cold viscid sweat. 

The main action of Cuprum and that which will call for its most 
frequent use in practice, is on the nervous system. We find it indi- 
cated, for instance, in spasms with affections of the brain, as in menin- 
gitis. No remedy in the materia medica excels it, and very few equal 
it, in this direction. We find it indicated when there has been an 
eruption suppressed, whether that be scarlatina, measles or erysipelas. 
The symptoms which call for it are these: delirium of a violent char- 
acter very much like that of Belladonna; the patient bites the offered 
tumbler, loquacious delirium on awaking from sleep, or on becoming 
conscious he appears frightened. Here it is the exact counterpart of 
Stramonium. But it is a far deeper-acting remedy than Stramonium. 
The convulsions usually start from the brain with blueness of the face 
and lips, the eyeballs are rotated and there are frothing at the mouth 
and violent convulsive symptoms, especially of the flexor muscles. 
The convulsion is followed by deep sleep. . Now this spasm, especially 
if epileptic, may be ushered in by a violent shriek or cry. There is 
grinding of the teeth. 

Cuprum is not very frequently indicated in neuralgia, but it may 
sometimes be used in sudden attacks of neuralgia with active conges- 
tion affecting the nervous supply of the involuntary muscles. 

Cuprum arse?iicosum I have used in the third potency, on the recom- 
mendation of Dr. J. H. Marsden, for neuralgia of the abdominal 
viscera. I have prescribed it in cases in which no other remedy seemed 
to be indicated, and I believe with excellent success. 



ZINCUM. 



63L 



ZlNCUM. 



Zinc. 



Nervous depression. 

Undeveloped diseases from enervation. 

( Hemispheres. 
Brain. < Sensorium. 

I Pons medulla. 
Spine. 
Anaemia. 
Organs. 
(^Skin. 

f Belladonna, Cuprum, Stramonium. 
Hyoscyamus. 



Zinc. ^ Calcarea ostrearum. 
1 Camphor. 
(^ Plumbum. 



>Ign. 

<Nux vom. 
>Hep. 

Zincum metallicum is the preparation we most frequently use. You 
will notice the very peculiar fact that two preparations containing 
strychnia, Nux vomica and Ig?iatia, hold opposite relations to Zinc. 
Ignatia follows Zinc well, and may even act as an antidote to its effect 
on the nervous system. Nux vomica tends rather to increase the effects 
of Zinc y in fact, is inimical to it. Hepar also antidotes Zinc, as it does 
every other metal. It is a safe remedy to fall back on in cases of me- 
tallic poisoning when the symptoms point to no special antidote. Zi7ic 
often precedes Apis when there are sharp cutting pains all over, com- 
ing quickly, jerks of tendons in sleep, head hot, feet cold; kidne3?s still 
act. 

I have had mapped out on the board some of the sphere of action of 
Zinc. I wish to impress on you all that this is not placed here as an 
exhaustive analysis of the remedy, nor is it intended to teach you that 
you are to use Zinc only in the diseases here named. This table is only 
for convenience sake, to give a sort of starting point around which you 
may group the symptoms of the remedy. 

In poisonous doses the salts of zinc cause formication, that is, a sen- 
sation as of ants creeping over the body. This creeping or tingling is 
relieved by rubbing or by pressure. There is even a tremulous vibra- 
tion all through the body. This is not only experienced by the patient, 



632 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

but is noticed, too, by the observer. Later, there appear fainting 
spells, with a great deal of numbness and deathty nausea. As soon as 
water touches the stomach, it is vomited. This is increased by acids, 
so, if any one should give the patient vinegar or lemon-juice, it only 
adds to his torment by increasing the nausea. With all this, there is 
vertigo. The head reels, the eyes feel as if they were being drawn 
together, and there is a hard heavy pressure at the root of the nose. 
These symptoms are followed by convulsions and stupor, and finally, 
if the poison cannot be antidoted, by death. I would warn you, too, 
if you meet with such a case of poisoning, not to give wine or other 
stimulants, for every symptom of Zi?ic, from head to foot, is made worse 
by wine. 

Other remedies having aggravation from drinking wine are Rhodo- 
dendron, Glonoin, Nux vomica, Selenium, Ledum, Fluoric acid, Anti- 
monium crudum, Pulsatilla, Arsenicum, Lycopodium, Opium and Silicea. 

Glonoin has congestive headache, made worse by wine. 

Ledum is indicated in drawing pains in the joints, made worse by 
drinking wine. 

Fluoric acid has aggravation from red wines. 

Pulsatilla from sulphurated wines. 

Antimonium crudum is suited to the bad effects of Rhenish sour 
wines. 

Bovista, easily intoxicated. Also Conium. 

Silicea, ebullition of blood, with aggravation from wine; Carbo veg. 
blushes up after a little wine. 

Workers in zinc, after ten or twelve years' exposure, suffer from the 
following symptoms: pains in the back; sensitiveness of the soles of 
the feet; formication, numbness and coldness of the legs; sensation as 
of a band around the abdomen; crampy twitching of the muscles. 
Reflex excitability is increased so that irritation in one part of the 
body will produce violent jerking in another. Muscular sensibility is 
lessened, hence patient staggers when his eyes are closed, or when 
he is in the dark. There are muscular tremors which almost simulate 
those of shaking palsy. Still later, the gait becomes stiff, motions are 
spasmodic with the step on the full sole. From involvement of the 
sympathetic nervous system there are anaemia and progressive and 
general emaciation. 

In studying Zinc as a remedy we are to remember, then, that it is a 
medicine which acts prominently on the nervous system. This influence 



ZINCUM. 633 

which it has on the nervous tissue, is one rather of depression 
than stimulation. It weakens the cerebro-spinal nerves, and also those 
of the sympathetic, or ganglionic nerves more accurately called. It is, 
therefore, to be used in those diseases in which there is weakness of 
the nervous system. One very useful condition in which we may em- 
ploy this drug comes under the second heading, undeveloped disease 
from enervation. By that I mean that Zinc is an invaluable drug 
when the patient is nervously too weak to develop a disease, and hence 
he suffers all the consequences of hidden disease, or disease spending 
its force on the internal organs. To give you an illustration of this in 
exanthematous diseases, we find Zinc called for in scarlatina, or in 
measles when the eruption remains undeveloped. As a result of the 
non-development of the disease, the brain suffers, as we shall see pres- 
ently. 

Manganese resembles Zinc by causing progressive wasting, stagger- 
ing gait and paralysis. Like Phosphorus it causes acute fatty degener- 
ation of the liver. 

Now, as another evidence of this nervous condition of non-reaction, 
we find pains in the ovaries which are relieved during the menstrual 
flow. Further illustration of this action of Zinc will be found in the 
catarrhal asthma in which it is indicated. This asthma is accom- 
panied by great constriction of the chest {Cadmium su/ph., Kali chlor. 
and Cactus g.), and is relieved as soon as the patient can expectorate, 
like Sepia, Antimonium tart, and Gri?idelia. So, too, in the male 
organs there is a local irritation which may be the result of spinal 
irritation, or self-abuse. This irritation is relieved by a seminal dis- 
charge. 

Again, during dentition, the child gives way under the nervous 
strain, the teeth fail to develop; it has a slow pulse, seeming to come 
in long waves; it is drowsy, and lies with the back of the head pressed 
deeply into the pillow, with the eyes half-closed and squinting, the 
face pale and rather cool, or alternately red and pale. It gives forth 
loud cries, not exactly the cri encephalique, but something akin to it, 
with trembling all over, boring the fingers into the nose (as you find 
under Cina, Arum triphyllum, Veratrum and a few other remedies), 
or pulling nervously at the dry, parched lips, again reminding you of 
Arum. There will be automatic motion of different parts of the body, 
usually the arms and hands, and, particularly, restless, fidgety move- 
ments of the feet. This last symptom is a very strong indication for 



634 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Zincum. If still conscious enough to take water, the child drinks it 
hastily. In extreme cases the abdomen is hot and sunken, and the 
stools and urine involuntary. In milder brain symptoms the child 
awakes delirious, as if frightened by horrible dreams. It seems to 
know no one. It rolls the head from side to side. It may have con- 
vulsions, with anxious screams and springing up out of bed, gnashing 
the teeth and rolling the eyes. It is exceedingly cross and irritable 
before the attack, with hot body and great restlessness, particularly at 
night. 

Zincum may be indicated in chorea or St. Vitus' dance, when 
caused by fright or suppressed eruptions, especially when the general 
health suffers very much. There are great depression of spirits, and 
irritability. 

Still another form of cerebral trouble calling for Zinc is meningitis. 
Here it is indicated when, in the beginning either of a case of rheu- 
matism, or in fact from any cause, you find these sharp, lancinating 
pains through the head; they are worse from wine, * or from anything 
that stimulates. There are, also, pressing, tearing pains in the occi- 
put, particularly about the base of the brain; and these pains seem to 
shoot through the eyes, and, sympathetically, into the teeth. There 
is a very distressing, cramplike pain at the root of the nose, just as we 
found in the poisoning symptoms. Now these symptoms will suggest 
Zinc to you in quite a variet} 7 of ailments, but especially in meningitis 
arising from the non-development of an eruption. 

So you find Zincum indicated in scarlatina with the brain symptoms 
that I have mentioned, and with the following additional symptoms: 
the eruption is imperfectly developed; the skin is rather livid; the 
child is restless and delirious, or else quiet and unconscious; even in 
the smooth or Sydenham scarlatina, Zinc may supplant Belladonna by 
reason of this enervation of the child. A still worse case than this 
may occur, and still Zincum be indicated, and that is, when the skin 
is bluish and cold, the body is heavy, and the pulse is almost thread- 
like, it is so weak and volumeless. Let us now compare Zincum with 
other remedies. 

Cuprum has cerebral symptoms, convulsions with screaming out,. 

*In headache worse from wine, compare: Rhododendron, Glonoin, Nux 
vomica, Oxalic acid and Selenium. 

Both Conium and Zinc have aggravation from small sips of wine ; Conium is 
easily intoxicated thereby. Zinc has nearly all symptoms by taking small quan- 
tities. 



ZINCUM. 635 

clenching of the thumb into the palm of the hand, boring of the head 
into the pillow, and predominant spasm of the flexor muscles: the face 
is usually red, or even purple; the teeth are clenched; the child foams 
at the mouth; it awakens from its sleep frightened, and does not know 
anybody about it, just as in Zinciun and Stramonium. All these 
symptoms in Cuprum are the result of a suppressed eruption. In 
Zinc they are due to an undeveloped eruption. The symptoms are 
more violent under Cuprum; and are more like those of active inflam- 
mation. 

In scarlatina the case is different when Belladonna is indicated; it 
is the remedy in the smooth variety of scarlatina, in the early stages. 
The vomiting is violent, and the cerebral symptoms prominent. 
There are screaming out, wild look about the eyes and redness of the 
face. The throat is bright red and swollen, and the tongue covered 
with elevated papillae; the patient springs up from sleep screaming, 
and clings to those about it. Suppose, however, this case goes on, 
and the rash does not come out; the child becomes pale and livid; it 
rolls its head in the pillow, grinds its teeth, and screams out whenever 
you move it, and the feet are restless; then Belladonna , Cuprum or 
Lachesis will do no good; no remedy but Zinc will. 

If the case goes on in spite of Zinc, and the skin becomes livid and 
cold, the pulse filiform, Camphor may still bring about reaction, espe- 
cially if there is cold sweat. 

In some cases Veratrum album will come in. 

In still others I would have you remember Hydrocyanic acid. 

Calcarca ostrearum is often forgotten in scarlatina. It is to be placed 
alongside of Zinc, particularly in scrofulous children, when the rash is 
either undeveloped, or else recedes, leaving the face unnaturally pale 
and bloated. 

Zincum is indicated in several forms of headache. One of them is 
a stinging, tearing headache, worse in the side of the head, greatly in- 
creased by wine; this headache is also worse after dinner. Sometimes 
you will find Zinc indicated in obstinate pain in the head, obstinate in 
its persistence, yet intermittent in its quality, now very severe, and 
now fading away, but continually returning. It is also indicated for 
hypochondriasis and pressure on the top of the head, increased after 
dinner. 

You will also find Zincum indicated in hydrocephaloid, following 
cholera infantum. The child rolls its head; it awakens from sleep as 



636 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

if frightened, and looks around the room terrified; the occiput is apt 
to be hot and the forehead rather cool; there is grinding of the teeth; 
the eyes are sensitive to the light, and are fixed and staring; the face 
is sunken and pale, or alternately red and pale; the nose is dry; there 
is jerking of the muscles during sleep; and last, but not least, there is 
constant fidgety motion of the feet. In hydrocephaloid, Zincum is 
closely allied to Calcarea phos. 

Next, I would like to speak of the action of Zincum on the spine. 
Zinc is a good remedy in disease of the spine of a functional character, 
especially in spinal irritation. The symptoms which call for it are 
these: first and foremost, dull, aching pain about the last dorsal or 
first lumbar vertebra, and this is worse when the patient is sitting than 
it is when he walks. The symptom, I can assure you, is a good indi- 
cation for Zinc. I think that very nearly the same symptom is found 
under Sepia. It is not situated in the same locality, however, but has 
the same aggravation. It is also found characteristically under Kobalt. 
This backache of Zi7icum is associated with burning along the spine, 
which I believe to be purely subjective and not congestive in character. 
We also find under Zinc, trembling of the limbs, with a feeling as if 
they were about to be paralyzed; sudden spasmodic bursting sensation 
about the heart; the heart is beating regularly, when it suddenly seems 
as if it would burst through the chest; constriction of the chest, caus- 
ing shortness of breath; the pulse is slow, or weak and irregular; weak- 
ness or goneness in the stomach at 11 A. m. This last symptom you 
will also find under Phosphorus, Natrum carb., Natrum phos., Sulphur, 
Asafoztida, Hydrastis and Indium. Manganum should be thought of in 
conjunction with Zinc when the lumbar spine is affected and there 
are burning pains, worse on bending backwards; legs weak; tension 
here and there; marked anaemia. 

Zincum is also indicated in paralysis from softening of the brain, fol- 
lowing suppressed foot-sweat, with vertigo, trembling, numbness and 
formication. These symptoms are relieved by friction, and greatly 
aggravated by wine. There may be marked ptosis with this paral- 
ysis. 

In these paralytic affections, Zincum is similar to Phosphorus and 
Plumbum. It is similar to Phosphorus, in that both remedies suit cases 
of enervation and of softening of the brain with the accompanying 
trembling. Phosphorus has not the aggravation from wine or the 
ptosis. 



ZINCUM. 637 

Plumbum has nearly the same symptoms as Zinc, but there is added 
to these, impaired nutrition, or atrophy of the paralyzed part. There 
will be pains in the atrophied limbs, alternating with colic. 

Now a word or two as to some local effects of Zinc, and we will have 
done with the remedy. First of all, we find it indicated in some affec- 
tions of the eyes; for instance, in amblyopia, accompanied by severe 
headache, which is probably dependent upon some organic change in 
the brain or its meninges, and with severe pain at the root of the nose. 
The pains are particularly worse at the inner canthus of each eye. 
The pupils are contracted. 

We may also use Zinc for opacities of the cornea following repeated 
and long-lasting attacks of inflammation of that membrane. The best 
preparation here is Zincum sulphuricum. 

Pterygium may be removed by Zinc, particularly if there are smart- 
ing and stinging pains at the inner canthus. 

Zi?icum is also useful for granular lids. Here again the sulphuricum 
being preferable to the metallicum. 

It is also indicated in prosopalgia when the pains are severe and are 
accompanied by blueness o»f the eyelids. 

Zincum has marked gastric and hepatic symptoms. It produces 
bitter taste, which is referred by the patient to the fauces. As soon as 
a spoonful of water reaches the stomach it is ejected. Heartburn is 
present, and this is increased by wine and also during pregnancy. 
When occuring during pregnancy it is apt to be accompanied by vari- 
cose veins of the legs. Hunger is particularly manifested towards 
noon. Zincum also affects the liver. You will find recorded in the 
original provings a symptom, the exact language of which I have for- 
gotton, but which is in substance this: there is a feeling as of a hard 
tumor in the neighborhood of the umbilicus, and this is accompanied 
by griping pains. This symptom has led to the use of the drug in en- 
largement of the liver. 

Zincum affects the abdomen something like Plumbum, producing 
griping pains about the navel, with most obstinate constipation. This 
is accompanied by a great deal of pressure backwards, as though the 
abdomen were being drawn back toward the spine. Now, in almost all 
cases in which Zincum is useful you will find that the predominant 
pain and pressure is on the sides of the abdomen; so it must affect prin- 
cipally the ascending and the descending colon. The urine often 
contains blood; it is sometimes turbid and loam-colored, and has a 



638 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

yellowish sediment. The patient cannot pass urine unless he sits 
cross-legged, even though the bladder be full. 

The cough of Zinc is spasmodic, as if it would draw the chest in 
pieces. The sputum may be bloody. This is particularly noticed just 
before or during a menstrual period. It is also aggravated by eating 
sweet things. You will sometimes find Zincum helping in children, 
who, every time they cough, put their hands on the genital organs. 

In its action on the male genital organs Zincum is similar to Conium. 
It is indicated in spermatorrhoea following long-lasting abuse of the 
genital organs, with great hypochondriasis. The face is pale and 
sunken, with blue rings around the eyes. There is a great local irrita- 
tion. The -testes are drawn firmly up against the external ring. 
Conium differs in that it lacks the excessive irritability. In this 
remedy, when there is urinary difficulty, the urine is apt to pass more 
readily while the patient is standing. 

Zincum is also useful in diseases of the female organs, especially for 
irregularity in the menstrual function, particularly when it is associ- 
ated with ulceration of the cervix uteri and boring pain in the left 
ovarian region. All the symptoms improve at the onset of the menstrual 
flow. 



LECTURE LXII. 

FERRUM AND THE MAGNESIA SALTS. 

Ferrum Metallicum. 

f Ipecacuanha, Arsenicum,. China, Veratrum alb. 

- | Pulsatilla. 

Ferrum. <( 



V V 

China. Alumina. 



Iodine. j Arsen. 

Cuprum. > 1 Pals. 



Ferrum has two complements, Cinchona or China, and Alumina. 
Ferrum and Alumina are complementary in chlorosis; and Ferrum and 
Cinchona in anaemia from loss of animal fluids. 

Now the best antidote to Iron I know of is Pulsatilla. And, as 
good fortune will have it, Pulsatilla also antidotes Cinchona, which 
is so frequently given in combination with Iron by old-school physi- 
cians. 

Ferrum acts best in young persons, male or female, who are subject 
to irregular distributions of blood. The cheeks are flushed a bright 
red, giving them an appearance of blooming health; and yet this is 
only a masked plethora. When they are unexcited and quiet they are 
apt to be pale, and the face has an earthy color. Among the evi- 
dences of this irregular distribution of blood we have the following 
symptoms: violent hammering headache, which is usually periodical 
in its return and worse after twelve o'clock at night; nose-bleed, with 
bright red flushing of the cheeks; the nose is filled with dark, clotted 
blood during an attack of catarrh; asthma, associated with an orgasm 
of blood to the chest, and worse after twelve o'clock at night, at which 
time the patient must sit up and uncover the chest. He uncovers the 
chest to get cool, and sits up in order to breathe, and moves slowly 
about for relief. Ferrum is also suited to haemoptysis, especially in 
young boys or girls who are subject to consumption and who are just 
in the incipient stages of phthisis florida. Almost all these symptoms 
are excited by any emotion and are accompanied by great fatigue, 



640 A CUNICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

despite the appearance of health. Even the neuralgia which Ferrum 
may cure has fulness of the bloodvessels as a concomitant condition. 
This neuralgia is excited by washing in cold water, especially after 
being overheated. The pains are of a throbbing character, and are 
worse at night. Almost all of these symptoms, both the congestions 
and the pains, are relieved by slowly walking about. Now, you may 
understand the action of Ferrum if you remember this one quality of 
the drug. It has the power of dilating the blood-vessels, probably by 
diminishing the action of the vaso-motor nerves; hence, you do not 
find a full, bounding pulse, as under Aconite, but a full, yielding 
pulse. You will find, when Ferrum is indicated, that the walls of the 
abdomen are sore, as if bruised. This is due, not to inflammation, but 
to dilatation of the blood-vessels. This places Ferrum alongside of 
Gelsemium and separates it from Aconite. 

We have next to study Ferrum as a chlorotic remedy. We do not 
use Ferrum, or, at least, we should not, as allopathic physicians do, 
because, in this disease there is a defective amount of iron in the 
blood. That is not the homoeopathic principle for giving the drug. 
Homoeopathy aims to correct the defective supply of haematin which 
lies back of the want of iron in the blood. This deficiency is due not 
to want of iron in the food taken,. but to want of power on the part of 
the system to assimilate it. Therefore, Ferrum is not the remedy in 
chlorosis. It may, however, be called for in that disease when the 
following symptoms are present: in the first place, in a general way, 
it is called for in erethistic chlorosis — that is, chlorosis with erethism 
of blood. It may be aggravated during the cold weather, less so, 
however, than it is during warm weather. The face is ordinarily of a 
pale, waxen or earthy hue, and subject, at every little emotion, to 
flush up red. The slightest emotion of pleasure or distress, the sudden 
entrance of any one into the room, the meeting of a stranger, and, in 
fact, anything that is calculated to disturb the mind, causes flushing 
up of the face. The cheeks become bright red. Now, this is not a 
true plethora; it is a masked case. The face is really of an earthy 
hue, but flushes up on any little emotion. The stomach is always out 
of order, the patient being subject to gastralgia and heavy pressure in 
the region of the stomach. With this there is a feeling as if some- 
thing rolled into the throat and closed it like a valve. There is great 
aversion to meat, and, in fact, to anything that is really nourishing. 
Food has little or no taste. The patient has frequent spells of nausea^ 



FERRUM. . t 641 

which come as soon as he eats, or periodically at twelve o'clock at 
night. Here it reminds one of Arsenicum. Mucous membranes are 
abnormally pale. For instance, the vermilion of the lips is exchanged 
for a simple pale pink. In the case of a male patient the glans penis 
is shrivelled and white, almost as pale as the prepuce. So, too, the 
cavity of the mouth and the gums are almost white, showing this 
bloodlessness. The menses are profuse and consist of watery and 
lumpy blood, and are attended with labor-like pains in the abdomen. 
The patient is very inactive; it is with great effort that she can move 
about. She is relieved by exercise. She is chilly during most of the 
day, with bright red flushing of the cheeks in the.. evening. There is 
palpitation of the heart, well-marked bellows murmur. The blood- 
vessels all over the body throb violently. Sometimes the anaemia 
progresses so far that the patient becomes affected with oedema of the 
feet. 

Manganese is very like Iron in its haematin effects but in nervous 
symptoms is more like Cuprum, Argentum and Zinc. Symptoms agree- 
ing, it may be interpolated to favor the action of Ferrum in chlorosis, 
etc. 

The Ferrum patient is subject to frequent; congestive headaches,' 
with pulsating pain in the head, worse usually after midnight. The 
face is fiery red during the attack, and the feet are cold. It is here 
very much like Belladomia, but is indicated in a very different class of 
cases from those calling for that remedy. Such patients always com: 
plain of vertigo or dizziness, which is worse when they rise suddenly 
from a lying to a sitting posture. Walking over a bridge or by some 
running water or riding in a car or carriage also causes this vertigo. 
These are the cases in which you will find Ferrum to succeed. An 
English physician has advised that Ferrum, be administered after a 
meal instead of before. He thinks it acts better then. I do not know 
whether this is so or not. 

Another use that we may make of Feryum, arising from its tendency 
to produce ebullitions of blood, is in phthisis florida. It is indicated 
in young people who are subject to tuberculosis, here rivalling the 
well-known Phosphorus. It is indicated more than Phosphorus when 
there is this apparent plethora, with great oppression of the chest from 
any little exertion. The nostrils dilate with the efforts to breathe. 
There is frequent epistaxis or nose-bleed, and also haemoptysis, the 
blood being bright red and coagulated. The cough is of a dry, teasing 
4i 



642 A CUNICAI, MATERIA MKDICA. 

character, and is made worse after drinking anything warm. It 
is usually associated with bruised, sore feeling in the chest, and with 
dull, aching pain in the occiput. In addition to this erethistic phthisis, 
we may have Ferrum indicated later in the case when expectoration is 
purulent and greenish and has a very bad odor, and is mixed with 
blood streaks. 

This reminds me of a salt of Ferrum, Ferrum phosphoricum. This 
is a remedy which was suggested by Schussler in all cases of inflamma- 
tion before exudation has taken place. He bases his prescription on 
the combined effects of Ferrum and Phosphorus, berrum phos. stands 
midway between Aconite and Gelsemium. In fact it develops that 
stage of inflammation which the pathologists describe as indicated by 
enlargement of the blood-vessels, paresis of the vaso-motor nerves. 

Schussler proposed Ferrum phos. as a substitute for Aconite. It has 
been confirmed so many times that I now offer it to you with these 
qualifications. The indications for Ferrum phos. are these: the pulse 
is full, round and soft; the inflammation has not yet gone on to ex- 
udation; the discharge, if it is a mucous surface that is affected, is 
blood-streaked. In other words, the condition calling for it is sur- 
charged bloodvessels, t If a patient with phthisis should take cold, and 
so become greatly prostrated, and have this blood-streaked expector- 
ation, Ferrum phos. even in the two hundredth potency will quickly 
quiet the pulmonary congestion. So, too, in the secondary congestion 
following pneumonia. The right lung, for instance, is inflamed, when 
suddenly the left becomes congested. Here Ferrum phos. again acts. 
Or, again, on a warm summer's day, a child is exposed while perspir- 
ing, and the perspiration is checked. In consequence of this, inflam- 
mation of the bowels sets in. The stools are watery and bloody. 
Here, again, is a case for Ferrum phos. In the beginning of dysentery, 
Ferrum phos. never does any good if there is tenesmus. Then you 
will have to give Mercurius or some other remedy. 

We may use the metal itself in diarrhoea. The stools contain un- 
digested food, and come as soon as the patient attemps to eat. In 
summer complaint of children or cholera infantum, we find these 
symptoms recurring quite regularly or periodically just after midnight, 
when the lienteric stools may be accompanied by periodical vomiting. 
These symptoms of Ferrum place it with Cinchona and Arsenic in a 
little group of diarrhoea remedies, and rather in advance of Oleander, 
this last-named drug being indicated when the lienteric stools occur 



MAGNESIA CARBONIC A. 643 

hours after eating. The child passes one day that which he had eaten 
the day before. With Cinchona and Arse?iic, the stool appears more 
after than during eating, and with Arsenic more after midnight. 

Argentum nitricum may also be thought of in these cases of diar- 
rhoea. It seems as if the child had but one bowel, and that extended 
from mouth to anus. 

In uterine haemorrhages, Ferrum is useful when there is a flow of 
bright red blood, often mixed with coagula, and this is associated with 
a great deal of flushing. The face, which is ordinarily earthy and 
sallow, becomes bright red and flushed, breathing becomes rapid and a 
little labored, just as it is in Ipecac. The pulse itself is very much 
increased in frequency and in strength. Ferrum in haemorrhages 
seems to stand between Cinchona and Ipecac. Like Cinchona, it is 
suited to very much prostrated cases in persons naturally anaemic. It 
is allied to Ipecac, in the bright red gushing flow of blood and the 
difficulty of breathing. 

Ipecac, suits haemorrhage that conies with a gush. It may be asso- 
ciated with nausea and it may not, but there is very apt to be loud, 
hurried breathing. 

Ferrum has sometimes been of use in prolapsus uteri; but the Ferrum 
iodide is a better preparation here. Soreness in the abdominal walls. 
On sitting down he feels as if something were pushed upward in the 
vagina. 

Lastly, Ferrum is indicated in intermitting types of fever, particu- 
larly after the abuse of quinine. You find during the heat distension 
of the bloodvessels, particularly about the temples and face, throbbing 
headache, enlargement of the spleen, and even dropsy. 

Magnesia Carbonic a. 

j Arsenicum, Phosphorus. 
Magnesia carb. \ Belladonna, Camphor, Pulsatilla, Merc, Colocynth. 
I Ratanhia, Sepia, Cocculus. 

> Pulsatilla. 

>Rheum. 

>Chamomilla. 

>Belladonna. 

Magnesia is much used in one form or another by allopaths as a 
purgative medicine. When thus abused several results may follow. 



644 A CLINICAIy MATERIA MEDIC A. 

It may become injurious from its tendency to accumulate in the intes- 
tines as an incrustation of ammonia-magnesian phosphate, and also 
from its remoter effects on the nervous system. Its action on the 
latter is not unlike that of Zinc, and it may be used for similar forms 
of neuralgia. Nux vomica is the remedy for constipation resulting 
from large doses of the crude drug. 

Rheum is also to be given for the abuse of Magnesia when diarrhoea, 
with sour, slimy stool and tenesmus, results. 

Pulsatilla may be useful in some symptoms. 

Colocy?ith is called for in case griping pains result from abuse of 
Magnesia. 

Chamomilla is indicated when Magnesia causes neuralgia. 

Almost all the symptoms of Magnesia carb. seem to centre around 
the action of the drug on the gastro-intestinal organs. All other 
symptoms depend upon this action more or less, or else are secondary 
in importance. To describe the Mag?iesia carb. patient to you, I must 
say that the drug acts on both adult and child. If the patient is a 
child, you will find it puny and sickly from defective nutrition. Milk 
is refused, or, if taken, causes pain in the stomach, or is passed undi- 
gested. The child is subject to frequent griping, colicky pains, which 
are very much like those of Colocynth. It draws its limbs up to relieve 
these abdominal pains which are also frequently relieved by motion. 
The stools are characteristically sour, green and slimy, are preceded 
by much griping and rumbling in the bowels, and have been very 
aptly compared in appearance to the scum on a frog pond. Sometimes, 
when the stool is not exactly diarrhoeic, it looks as though there were 
lumps of tallow in it. In severe cases you will find the child poorly 
nourished, and its mouth full of aphthous ulcers, which are simply in- 
dications of the impoverished state of the system from defective nutri- 
tion. With these symptoms you can see how Mag?iesia carb. may be 
used for marasmus in children. There are several drugs which are 
here very similar to Magnesia carb., and it will be well for us to con- 
sider them. 

In the first place, Magnesia carb. is similar to Colocynth, in that it 
has griping, colicky pains, doubling the child up, but it is distinguished 
from that remedy by the green, slimy stool. 

Still greater is the resemblance between Magnesia carb. and Rheum. 
Both have the sour, slimy stool, etc. The former is the deeper acting 
remedy of the two, and if you are in doubt as to which to give, Rheum 



MAGNESIA CARBONICA. 645 

should precede. I must say that Rheum is a rather treacherous 
remedy. With the sour, slimy, frothy stools it has gripfng colic and 
twitching of the muscles of the face and fingers during sleep. 

Chamomilla resembles Magnesia carb. in many cases, particularly in 
diseases of children. In both remedies anxiety and restlessness are 
prominent. But in Chamomilla there is a yellowish-green stool, look- 
ing like chopped eggs. Both remedies have relief from moving about, 
and both have griping pains before stool, and both have irregularity 
in feeding as a cause of the illness. Mag?iesia carb. is of course the 
deeper acting of the two. 

Magnesia carb. is also similar to Calcarea ostrearum. Both have sour 
stool, rejection of milk, and imperfect nourishment of the body. 
Calcarea, however, may readily be distinguished from the other by the 
sweat on the head, face and scalp, by the damp and cold feet, and by 
the enlargement of the abdomen. 

In marasmus compare Magnesia carb. also with Antimonium crudum , 
Sulphur, Podophyllum, Sepia, and Natrum carb. 

If the Magnesia carb. patient is an adult, we may have some of the 
following symptoms to guide us: the gastric and hepatic symptoms 
predominate. The patient suffers from what has been termed acid 
dyspepsia. Food, such as cabbage and potatoes, and starchy food 
generally, are indigestible in such cases. He becomes anxious and 
warm while eating; and at night so hot that he can't sleep; yet he 
dreads exposure. 

Pregnant women may require Magnesia carb. when they suffer from 
toothache, and when the pains are worse at night and force the patient 
to get up and walk about. 

There is another remedy which I shall mention in this connection, 
one which you would hardly think of. Some years ago, it may be 
twenty, a physician of this city was treating a lady in the first months 
of pregnancy, who suffered terribly from toothache. He gave her 
Magnesia carb. and other remedies. Still the pain continued. Dr. 
Lippe was called in consultation, and he thought of Ratanhia, which 
has toothache at night, compelling the patient to get up and walk 
about. This remedy promptly cured the case. You can remember 
these two remedies then, and you may place them with Chamomilla, 
which is complementary to Magnesia carb. 

The menses are usually late and scanty, and they have this pecu- 
liarity: they flow more at night or on first rising in the morning, are 



646 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

scanty during the day and even cease altogether in the afternoon. 
The flow is also more profuse between the pains. This is true, 
whether they be profuse or scanty. In all the Magnesia salts the 
menstrual flow is dark or black, almost like pitch. 

Magnesia card, also has some relation to rheumatism and to affec- 
tions of the muscles and joints. It is suitable for rheumatism in the 
right shoulder. It also has rheumatic pains in the limbs, which are 
worse after a long walk, better from warmth, and worse in bed. 

Sangninaria is similar to Mag?iesia carb. , in that it has rheumatism 
affecting the right deltoid muscle. Several years ago I used Sangni- 
naria quite a number of times without any effect, and I became so dis- 
gusted with it that I announced to the class that I did not believe in it. 
Within a week after that I had two cases promptly cured by it. 

Nux moschata is indicated in rheumatism affecting the left deltoid. 

There are two cases of cataract on record as having been cured by 
Magnesia carb. In one of these the patient was predisposed to head- 
ache and boils. 

Magnesia Muriatica. 

Caulophyllum, Actea racemosa. 

Chamomilla, Pulsatilla, Mercurius. 
Magnesia mur. \ . 

Sulphur, Lycopodiurn, Sepia. 

[ Phosphorus, Ignatia. 

> Chamomilla. 

The next remedy of which I shall speak is the Chloride of Magnesia 
or Magnesia mur. This remedy acts particularly on women and chil- 
dren, especially in hysterical women and in scrofulous children. 

It is indicated in women who suffer from hysterical paroxysms, with 
the following symptoms: after dinner the patient is seized with 
nausea, eructations, trembling and fainting spells. These occur after 
dinner, because that is the principal meal, and more is eaten then than 
at other times. The patient is anxious and restless, and is always 
made worse from mental exertion. The headaches are described as 
congestive, with sensation as of boiling water in the cranium, or as a 
frontal numbness. The pains are referred to the temples, and seem to 
be relieved by firm pressure with the hands. They are also better 
from wrapping the head up warmly. The patient also complains of a 



MAGNESIA MURIATIC A. 647 

sensation as of a ball rising from the stomach into the throat. This 
is relieved by eructation. This shows that the accumulation of gas in 
the stomach is the cause of this reflex symptom. She also has bear- 
ing down in the uterine region and uterine spasms. The menses are 
black and pitch-like, and are accompanied by pain in the back when 
walking, and in the thighs when sitting. She also has leucorrhoea 
after every stool, or following the uterine spasms. In nearly all these 
cases in which Magnesia mur. is indicated, you will find characteristic 
constipation, in which the stools are passed with great difficulty, being 
composed of hard lumps, or they are so dry that they crumble as 
they pass the anus. If you find that symptom present with the uterine 
symptoms, you may be sure that Magnesia mur. will help the patient. 

In other cases we find the liver affected. Magnesia mur. is one of 
our best remedies for liver disease. The liver is enlarged and the ab- 
domen bloated. There are pains in the liver, which are worse from 
touch or from lying on the right side. The tongue is large, coated 
yellow, and takes the imprint of the teeth. You will see at once how 
this resembles Mercurius, but it is differentiated from that remedy by 
the characteristic crumbling stool. The feet are often cedematous 
from interference with the portal circulation, and there are palpitation 
of the heart and dyspnoea, both of these last-named symptoms being 
reflex symptoms from the hepatic disorder. 

Frequently we find Mag?iesia mur. indicated in the enlarged liver of 
children who are puny in their growth and rachitic. They suffer, too, 
from skin affections. They have what is known as tinea ciliaris, an 
eruption which occurs at the roots of the hairs, particularly of the eye- 
lids. The hairs drop out. A scaly eruption appears around the hairs, 
the skin ulcerates, and the hairs drop out. With this tinea there are 
pimples on the face, and acrid ozsena, with redness and swelling and 
scaliness of the nose. With these symptoms there is sweat of the 
feet. Here we are reminded of Silicea, but the sweat under Silicea is 
offensive. 

A general characteristic of Magnesia mur., belonging to either men 
or women, is palpitation of the heart, which is worse when the patient 
is quiet, and better from moving about. The symptom has been con- 
firmed many times. Then there is another symptom which occurs fre- 
quently in women, and that is inability to pass urine without pressing 
on the abdominal walls. 

The analogues of Magnesia mur. must be studied here, or else you 



648 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

will not be able to separate it from similarly acting drugs. We find 
that in uterine spasms, Caulophyllum and Actea racemosa act like Mag- 
nesia mur. I must say that I believe Caulophyllum leads the list. I 
know of no other drug that produces such continued spasmodic condi- 
tion of the uterus unless it be Secale. 

" Silicea ought to be mentioned as similar to Magnesia mur. in the 
treatment of scrofulous children. Both remedies have sweating of the 
feet, enlarged liver, rachitis, and ozaena. The difference lies in this: 
the Silicea patient has offensive-smelling sweat, both of the feet and 
of the head. That is one good distinction. There are many others. 
There is a resemblance between the headaches of the two remedies. 
Silicea and Mag?iesia mur. both have headache, relieved by wrapping 
the head up warmly. 

Mercurius is similar to Magnesia mur. in liver affections. It is dis- 
tinguished from the latter by its diarrhoea, with tenesmus, or, more 
exceptionally, with gray or ashy stool. 

- Also similar to Magnesia mur. is Plelea, which is useful in conges- 
tion of the liver when there is a feeling as of weight and pressure in 
the right hypochondrium. The liver is found to be enlarged. The 
patient here finds relief by lying on the right side. 

I may say that the Magnesia salts have been placed with Zinc as 
remedies acting on the nervous system. This fact led Schiissler to 
"nesia phos. as a nerve tonic. 



LECTURE LXIII. 

BARYTA CARB., STRONTIANA CARB., AND 
LITHIUM CARB. 

Baryta Carbonic a. 

Barium and Strontium are very closely related to each other chemi- 
cally. Of the elements themselves we have no provings. The carbo- 
nates of these have, however, been proved, as have also the Muriate 
and the Sulphate of Baryta. Baryta is somewhat of a poison, although 
there are not many cases of poisoning by it on record, because it is 
rarely used in domestic practice. 

Baryta carb. has Antimonium tartaricum as its complement, particu- 
larly in the complaints of old people. 

Animals poisoned with Baryta ca?'b. exhibit some irritation of the 
abdominal organs, resembling great inflammation there, with increased 
peristaltic action of the bowels. The heart, too, is affected by it, the 
animal apparently dying from paralysis of the cardiac in systole. Its 
action is here very much like that of Digitalis. So much for the toxic 
action of Baryta. 

In all its symptomatology, we find Baryta adapted to ailments occur- 
ring at the extremities of life, age and childhood; to old age, when 
there are mental symptoms and bodily weakness, and to children, when 
there is in addition, scrofula. The child to whom we may give Baryta 
effectively is almost an imbecile. He, very unnaturally, shows no de- 
sire to play; he sits in a corner doing nothing. He cannot remember 
well, and is slow in learning to talk, to read, and to understand. This 
slowness in learning to talk does not come from defect in the apparatus 
of speech — of the tongue, for instance — but it is the result of mental 
weakness. The child is rather emaciated, with the exception of the 
abdomen, which is large. The face, also, is bloated. He may have a 
voracious appetite, but food is not appropriated by the system, because 
of the diseased condition of the mesenteric glands. A case of chronic 
hydrocephalus in a child improved after the exhibition of Baryta 
selected by these symptoms. Adults — especially old people — have a 



650 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

rather peculiar aversion to strangers, and shun the approach of any 
unfamiliar face. They seem to have a fear of the presence of others. 
They imagine that they are being laughed at. They are easily 
angered and suffer from cowardice. You all have seen similar symp- 
toms to these in persons of a half-imbecile state of mind from disease, 
whether in old age or in early life. 

A peculiar mental symptom of Ba?yta which I give you on the 
authority of Dr. Talcott, of Middletown, N. Y., is this: the patient 
thinks his legs are cut off and that he is walking on his knees. 

You may use Baryta carb. for old people when they suffer from 
paralysis, particularly paralysis following apoplexy. Very frequently 
in old people, the brain shrinks and, as the skull does not yield, there 
would be a vacuum formed, were it not that an effusion of serum takes 
place. This is followed by a more or less severe paralysis. You will 
find, in such cases, that the patient is childish and has loss of memory, 
trembling of the limbs and well-marked paralysis of the tougue. 
Baryta carb. is one of the few remedies that cause positive paralysis of 
the tongue. You will see these paretic symptoms also in children of 
this half-imbecile character of which I have spoken. The mouth is 
kept partly open and the saliva runs out freely. The child has a silly, 
vacant look, showing at once that it is non compos mentis. 

Baryta is one of the remedies for the apoplexy of drunkards. ( Vide 
lecture on Opium.) 

Baryta also seems to induce paralysis by causing degeneration of the 
coats of the bloodvessels, even to the production of aneurisms. 

Causticum acts similarly to Baryta in paralysis, but the paralysis of 
this remedy has more contractures or spasms. 

Secale acts on the bloodvessels; but its symptoms are apt to be associ- 
ated with burning and numbness; gangrene. 

Colchicum and Arsenic have loss of sensibility of the tongue. 

Both the Muriate and the Carbonate of Baryta may be used in 
multiple sclerosis of the brain and spinal cord. This is not an un- 
common disease in infants and children in whom it may give rise to the 
idiotic symptoms mentioned above. These same symptoms indicate it 
in disseminated sclerosis occurring in old people. 

For the trembling associated with this disease, Hyoscyamus should be 
thought of. 

When associated with the symptoms just enumerated, you may use 



BARYTA CARBONICA. 65 1 

Baryta for non-development of the brain in early childhood. The 
Chloride of Baryta has been used by old-school physicians for this 
sclerosis, and with more or less success. 

The remedy which most resembles Baryta here is Causticum. 

The use of Baryta in catarrhs demands attention. It is one of the 
best remedies we have for the tendency to tonsillitis, particularly in 
scrofulous children with dry scurf on the head. Baryta mur. and 
Baryta carb. cause induration of connective ti.-sue. They control pro- 
liferation of connective tissue, hence their use in tonsillitis, enlarged 
tonsils, indurated glands, etc., general symptoms agreeing. " Every 
little exposure to damp or cold weather awakens anew the inflamma- 
tion of the tonsils. This is not a simple sore throat, a swelling up of 
the mucous lining of the fauces with trouble in swallowing, but it is 
an actual inflammation of the tonsils with formation of pus. In these 
cases, you will find enlargement of the glands in the neck, under the 
jaw and behind the ear. Baryta is one of our remedies to prevent the 
return of this condition. It changes the constitutional tendencies of 
the patient. It is thus more the remedy for the effects of the trouble 
than for the acute symptoms. The local symptoms for the throat are 
principally these: the right side of the throat is worse than the left, 
just as you find under Belladonna; the throat feels worse from empty 
swallowing. In the treatment of tonsillitis, I frequently use the same 
prescription that I employ in diphtheria, namely, a gargle of alcohol 
and water. This seems to remove the accumulation of phlegm from 
the throat. 

In tonsillar affections, you may compare the following remedies with 
Baryta: 

Calcarea ostrearum, in fat, leuco-phlegmatic children. 

Calcarea pAos., in chronic cases; bones diseased. 

Ignatia, large tonsils, with small, flat ulcers on them; pain between 
the acts of swallowing. 

Hepar, large tonsils, hearing poor, sensation as of fish-bone in 
throat. 

Lycopodiu?n, large tonsils, studded with small indurated ulcers. 

Calcarea tod. is similar to Baryta in some cases with enlarged glands, 
particularly when there are enlarged tonsils which are filled with little 
crypts or pockets. 

Conium is suited to enlarged tonsils without any tendency to suppu- 
ration. 



652 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Baryta may also be used in children who, in addition to this tonsil- 
litis, have post-nasal catarrh. Scabs form in the posterior nares and 
at the base of the uvula. The upper lip and nose are swollen just as 
you find in Calcarea, but the mental symptoms are different. 

Baryta is also called for, for a chronic cough occurring in strumous 
or scrofulous children with swollen glands and enlarged tonsils. Every 
little exposure to cold or damp causes headache, backache and diar- 
rhoea. Here Baryta is similar to Dulcamara. The ears may be in- 
volved in the catarrhal process; crackling in the ears on swallowing, 
reverberations in the ear on blowing the nose, sneezing, etc. The late 
Dr. McClatchey used Baryta in catarrh of the middle ear after scarla- 
tina. 

Baryta is sometimes indicated in scrofulous ophthalmia, the pains 
are relieved by looking downward. The general symptoms are like 
those of Calcarea ostrearum. 

We find Baryta also indicated in old people who have what is known 
as suffocative catarrh, with orthopnoea. I think you can understand 
this when you remember the influence of Baryta on the voluntary and 
involuntary muscular fibres. It paralyzes them. In old people, the 
chest is very much weakened. They get a catarrh, which is not very 
severe, but appears suddenly in the night, with difficulty of breathing 
and blueness of the face, etc. Baryta carb. is one of the remedies that 
come in after the failure of Antimonium tartaricum. The patient com- 
plains of a sensation as of smoke or pitch in the lungs. Baryta should 
not be given in catarrhal asthma or asthma with emphysema; but 
when the disease is of the purely nervous variety, in the aged, when 
aggravation occurs in wet, warm air. You will see that its aggrava- 
tions are much like those of Aurum. 

Amblyopia, in the aged, sometimes calls for Baryta; the patient 
cannot look long at any object; sparks before the eyes when in the 
dark. 

It is also indicated in the headaches of the aged, with aggravation 
after waking, after meals and near a warm stove; the patient has a 
stupefied feeling. 

We also find Baryta carb. of use for the fatty tumors which occasion- 
ally appear here and there over the body. It is very easy to remove 
these with the knife. But it is much better to cure them by medicine, 
if you can do so. 

In tabes mesenterica, Baryta is indicated, when in addition to the 



STRONTIANA CARBONICA. 653 

foregoing symptoms, the following are present: food, when swallowed, 
seems to pass over sore spots in the oesophagus. There is always 
pain in the stomach after the child eats. The stool is sometimes un- 
digested. With this, you find the abdomen hard and swollen, and an 
offensive sweat on the feet, just as you find in Silicea. 

Now, there are remedies which may be compared with Baryta in 
this form of disease. Iodine is similar to Baryta in that it is suitable 
in torpid cases. The complexions of the patient in the two remedies 
are different. The Iodine patient has a dark complexion, dark hair 
and eyes and sallow skin. There is, too, extreme hunger. If you 
observe the child carefully, you will find it anxious and fretful, until 
he eats, which relieves him for the time being; and yet he grows thin 
despite the quantity of food consumed. Then, there is a mental symp- 
tom which is almost always present when you find Iodine indicated in 
tabes mesenterica, and that is intolerable crossness, which is even 
worse than that belonging to Antimoninm cmdum. 

Calcarea bhosphorica is indicated in children who are weak-minded, 
who cannot walk, although they are old enough to do so, who are 
anxious and restless in their manner and who suffer from defective 
osseous growth. The bones are thin and brittle. 

Like Baryta, the Silicea patient suffers from damp weather. He 
also has offensive sweat and general emaciation with the exception of 
the abdomen. The difference between the two remedies lies princi- 
pally in the mental symptoms. The Silicea child is obstinate and self- 
willed, and, too, his head is disproportionately large. 

Lactic acid has copious sweating of the feet, but is not offensive. 

For the offensive foot sweat, compare Silicea, Thuja, Nitric acid, 
Kali card., Graphites and Car bo veg. 

STRONTIANA CARBONICA. 

Strontiana carbonica has a few symptoms that are of importance. 
It has more effect on the circulation than has its relative, Baryta. We 
have, as a characteristic, flushes in the face and violent pulsation of 
the arteries. It may be useful in case of threatening apoplexy with 
violent congestion of the head, and hot and red face every time the 
patient walks. Mere exertion increases the circulation upwards to- 
wards the head. Some erethism is shown in the chest in some patients. 
There is a smothering feeling about the heart; they cannot rest; there 



654 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

is a feeling as of a load on the chest. These are the congestive symp- 
toms of the heart, lungs and head which suggest Strontiana card., and 
they may occur at the time of the climaxis when flushes of heat are so 
common. The peculiarity which will distinguish these symptoms 
from those of any other remedy is, that the head symptoms are re- 
lieved by wrapping the head up warmly, just as you find under Silicea 
and under Mag?iesia mur. These patients cannot bear the least 
draught of air, therefore, despite this congestive tendency, they wrap 
the head up warmly, though it may cause perspiration. It certainly 
does resemble Silicea, in that both remedies have congestion of the 
head relieved by wrapping the head up warmly. The Silicea conges- 
tion seems to come up the spine and go into the head. That is not 
characteristic of Strontiana carb. 

Another effect that we find caused by Strontiana carb., and one, too, 
for which it is not often used, is diarrhoea, which is worse at night, 
and which has this peculiar urgent character: the patient is scarcely 
off the vessel before he has to return. It is better towards morning at 
three or four o'clock. 

Strontiana carb. has a marked action on the bones. It has a particular 
affinity for the femur, causing swelling and caries of that bone; usually 
in scrofulous children. This trouble is often associated with the diar- 
rhoea just described. 

Strontiana carb. causes an eruption which very much resembles that 
of sycosis. Hence, it has been given for a sycotic eruption on the 
face or other parts of the body, and which is moist, and itches and 
burns. 

Another peculiarity of the drug, and the last one I care to mention, 
is its effects in chronic sprains, particularly of the ankle-joint, when 
both Arnica and Ruta have failed. The long interference with the 
circulation has produced some oedema about the joint. 

Lithium Carbonicum. 

Lithium carb. has not a very extensive range of action nor does it 
greatly depress the vital forces. In its provings, debility is noticed 
only in connection with or as a sort of sequel of the joint affection. 
It is particularly useful in affections of the joints. It is efficacious in 
rheumatism, and, above all, in some forms of gout. Of the various 
organs attacked by Lithium carb., the most important in the order of 
their importance are the heart, stomach, kidneys and bladder. The 



LITHIUM CARBONICUM. 655 

mucous membranes are also affected by the drug. At first they are 
unduly dry, and this dryness is followed later by thick mucous secre- 
tion. The skin does not escape. There appears an erythema, with 
itching of the skin, which occurs particularly about the joints, and is 
very annoying. It is particularly noticed along with rheumatism. 
Further than this, Lithium carb. may produce roughness of the skin 
and an eruption about the face resembling barbers' itch. 

Studying now the symptoms of the drug with this general action 
before us, we find confusion of the head; headache on the vertex and 
in the temple, worse on awakening; the eyes pain as if sore, and it is 
difficult to keep the eyelids open. This vertex headache and soreness 
of the eyes follows suppression of the menses. The patient has pain 
from the left temple into the orbit of that side; relieved while eating 
and worse afterwards. 

A very characteristic symptom of the retina, or rather of vision, is, 
the right half of objects vanishes. 

In keeping with its effect on mucous membranes, we find the drug 
causing conjunctival asthenopia, just as does Alumina. The conjunc- 
tiva of both lids and eyeball is painfully dry and the eyes feel sore 
when the patient reads. 

The nose is affected, too, in the Lithium proving, being swollen and 
red. Sometimes there is dryness of the nose when in the house, and 
mucus dropping from it when in the open air; or mucus seems to hang 
in strings from the posterior nares. Another symptom of Lithium is 
sensitiveness of the mucous membrane when the inspired air is unduly 
cold. 

Lithium cures a cough which seems to come from a certain spot in 
the throat. 

There is a form of gastralgia which Lithium will cure. It is accom- 
panied by the pain in the left temple and orbit, which is better by eat- 
ing. 

Lithium has some effect on the bowels. Drinking chocolate or cocoa 
will cause diarrhoea. 

Lithium irritates the neck of the bladder. This, you know, is often 
a symptom of rheumatic patients. The urine is turbid and flocculent. 
The pains extend down either ureter and into the spermatic cords or 
testicles, and are followed by red urine with mucous deposit. 

In the female, you had Lithium carb. indicated when the menses are 
late and scanty. The provers found that all the symptoms accompany- 
ing the irregularity in menstruation were on the left side. 



656 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Now, we will consider the rheumatic symptoms of Lithium carb ■. , 
including under this head those of the heart also. I have succeeded, 
in several instances, in relieving chronic rheumatic patients by this 
remedy. The symptoms which indicate the drug are these: rheu- 
matic soreness about the heart; valvular deposits will be found in many 
instances; mental agitation causes fluttering of the heart like Natrum 
mur. , Sepia and Calc. ostr. ; very marked is the pain in the heart when 
the patient bends forward; the cardiac muscle is evidently irritated, 
for we find shoeks or jerks about the heart; the cardiac pains are re- 
lieved when the patient urinates. 

Now, the symptoms of the body, joints and limbs: tenderness, with 
swelling and occasional redness of the last joints of the fingers; clumsi- 
ness in walking from unwieldiness of the muscles; intense itching on 
the sides of the feet and hands without any apparent cause. The pains 
in the joints are usually worse in the knee-, ankle- and finger-joints. 
The whole body feels stiff and sore as if beaten. Pains go down the 
limbs. The whole body increases in weight and becomes puffy. I may 
say that this puffiness is not due to a healthy fat, but is a flabby condi- 
tion which belongs to all the alkalies. 

Gettysburg spring water, which contains carbonate of lithia, is very 
efficacious in scrofulous children when there are ulcers involving the 
joints, as in Pott's disease and hip-joint disease, when there are offen- 
sive pus and diarrhoea. 

This character of the catarrh of Lithium carb. in which the inspired 
air feels cold is also found under Kali bichr. , sLsculus, Cistus, Hydrastis 
and Corallium rubrum. 

Kali bichr omicum, Baryta carb., Sepia and Teucrium have catarrh, 
with expectoration of solid chunks from the posterior nares. 

In valvular deposits in the heart you may compare Lithium carb. 
with Ledum, Kalmia and Be?izoic acid, the latter remedy being selected 
by the offensive character of the urine. 

Zincum, Conium and Aurum have sudden jerks or shocks about the 
heart. 

In rheumatism and gout you may compare Kalmia and Calcarea 
ostrearum, which resemble Lithium in the rheumatism of the finger- 
joints. 

When there are nodular swellings in the joints, compare Calcarea 
ostrearum, Natrum muriaticum, Benzoicacid, Lycopodium and Ammonium 
phos. 



LECTURE LXIV. 

THE AMMONIUM PREPARATIONS. 



Ammonium caust. 

Ammonium carb. 
Ammonium phos. 

Ammonium mur. 



Blood.— 

Scorbutus. 

Uraemia. 

Carbonized blood. 

Heart. 
Mucous membranes. — 

Nose. 

Throat and larynx. 

Lungs. 
Skin. — 

Erythema. 

Scarlatina. 
Organs. 



We have on the board to-day several of the salts of ammonia, the 
Carbonate of Ammonia or Ammonium carb., Caustic Ammonia or 
Ammonium causticum, Muriate of Ammo?iia or Ammonium muriaticum 
and Phosphate of Ammonia or Ammonium phosphoricum . The am- 
monium salts taken as a class, we find best suited to rather fat and 
bloated persons. Ammo?iium carb. is particularly indicated in fat 
flabby individuals of indolent disposition who lead a sedentar}- life. 
This is very different from Nux vomica and Sulphur, both of which are 
indicated in complaints arising from sedentary habits. But Ammonium 
carb. is especially indicated in fat lazy individuals. 

Ammonium ?7iur. is best indicated for fat sluggish individuals par- 
ticularly when the adipose tissue is mostly distributed over the trunk, 
the legs being disproportionately thin. That is the distinction that 
may be made between the Carbonate and the Muriate. 

The salts of ammonium exert a considerable influence over the 
blood. Thus if Ammonium carb. is taken for awhile there will be 
produced symptoms simulating those of scurvy. There will be haem- 
orrhages from the mouth, nose and bowels, showing you that there is 
a disintegration of the blood. The muscles become soft and flabby 
and there is well-marked tendency to emaciation. 
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658 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

We find that all the salts of ammonium act powerfully on the mu- 
cous membranes, of which tissue every one of them produces inflam- 
mation. This inflammation is of a violent character, starting with a 
simple feeling of burning and rawness, progressing to a complete in- 
flammation of the mucous membrane and ending in the destruction of 
the epithelium, which peels off in layers and leaves a raw, burning, 
ulcerated surface. It is, then, not to be wondered at, that the salts of 
ammonia have won considerable praise in affections of the nose, throat, 
and larynx, and somewhat of the lungs. 

The ammonium salts also have an impression on the skin. When 
applied locally, there is produced a simple erythema followed by der- 
matitis and some little swelling. Soon, however, an eruption appears, 
and this varies with the different ammonium salts. It is at first pap- 
ular, then vesicular and finally advancing to ulceration. These condi- 
tions are common to all the ammonium preparations of which we have 
any knowledge. 

Therapeutically, the salts of ammonia are antagonized by Veratrum 
viride, Digitalis, Acotiite, cold and other cardiac sedatives. 

Their action is favored by heat, Opium, Iodine, Valerian, Asafcetida, 
Alcohol, etc. 

Ammonium Carbonicum. 

f Arnica, Antimonium tart. 

Belladonna, Apis, Lachesis. 
Ammonium carb. { A A _ , _ 

Arsenicum, Aurum, Carbo veg., Curare. 

Conium, Senega, Kali bi., Calcarea ostr. 

(Camphor. 

^ \ Arnica. 

< Lachesis. 

We will first study Ammonium carb. Let me call your attention to 
the fact that the Carbonate of Ammonia may be antidoted by Camphor; 
and some of its symptoms by Arnica. 

Despite the apparent resemblance between Carbonate of Ammonia 
and Lachesis, these two drugs have been found to be inimical. 

Ammonium carb. may be studied from its action on the blood. As 
I have already said, its prolonged use produces a scorbutic condition. 
The vital powers are weakened. Haemorrhages of dark fluid blood 
appear. There is degeneration of blood tissue. The muscles become 



THE AMMONIUM PREPARATIONS. 659 

soft and flabby. The teeth loosen and the gums ulcerate. With these 
scorbutic symptoms, there is developed also a hectic form of fever. 

I now take up the indications for Ammonium card, in uraemia. 
These symptoms which I am about to give you are very important. 
They are not only characteristic of A??i?nonium carb. in ursemia, but 
also in any other disease in which this remedy may be indicated. We 
may find them present in scarlatina with decomposition of the blood, 
and also in heart disease. Now for the symptoms: you will find 
Ammonium carb. indicated for somnolence or drowsiness with rattling 
of large bubbles in the lungs, grasping at flocks, bluish or purplish 
hue of the lips from lack of oxygen in the blood, and brownish color 
to the tongue. You recognize in these symptoms some condition of 
blood-poisoning from the presence of carbonic acid. This may be in 
ursemia, or it may be in catarrh of the lungs, or in any other disease 
in which there is deficient oxygenation. The nearest analogues here 
are A?itimonium iartaricum, Carbo veg. and Arse?iicu?n. 

A similar condition obtains in Arnica in typhoid states when the 
patients are drowsy and heavy, and fall asleep while answering ques- 
tions. 

With the symptoms just enumerated you can remember Am??io?iium 
carb. for oedema of the lungs or emphysema. 

Ammonium carb. is also of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes. 
Arnica is sometimes of use in these cases, as is also Bovista. 

Still another use we may make of Ammonium ca?'b. , and one, too, 
that would hardly suggest itself to you, is in the beginning of cerebro- 
spinal meningitis. Sometimes, in the beginning of this disease, the 
patient is stricken down by the violence of the poison and falls into a 
stupid, non-reactive state. He is cold, and the surface of the body is 
cyanotic. The pulse is very weak. In just such cases you should 
give Ammonium carb., which will bring about reaction. Then you 
may select some more specific remedy which will cure the trouble. 

I would now like to mention the action of Ammonium carb. on the 
heart. This drug is useful in dilatation of that organ. The patient 
suffers when ascending a height, as when going up stairs or up a hill. 
He also suffers intolerably in a warm room. He frequently has cough 
which is accompanied by bloody sputum. There is palpitation of the 
heart with dyspnoea and retraction of the epigastrium. You may also 
find cyanotic symptoms present. 

Ammonium carb. is also indicated in pneumonia when there is great 



66o A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

debility, together with symptoms pointing to the formation of heart 
clot. 

It is also indicated in chronic bronchitis with atony of the bronchial 
tubes, which favors emphysema. There are copious accumulation of 
mucus in the lungs, dilatation of the bronchial tubes, and oedema 
pulmonum. The patient in these cases is weak and sluggish in his 
movements, coughs continually, but raises either not at all or with 
great difficulty. Drowsiness, or even some delirium with muttering, 
may be present. 

Another use we may make of Ammonium carb. is in scarlatina. It 
is undoubtedly a useful remedy in the treatment of this disease, even 
when of a rather malignant type. We find that it produces a rash re- 
sembling that of scarlatina, but which is, however, of a miliary char- 
acter. The throat is swollen internally and externally with enlarge- 
ment of the glands externally, and with bluish or dark red swelling of 
the tonsils. The neck externally is engorged, that is, there is, in ad- 
dition to the swelling of the cervical lymphatics, inflammation of the 
cellular tissue. The nose is often obstructed, particularly at night, 
causing the child to start from its sleep as if smothering. Frequently 
it has to lie with its mouth wide open in order to breathe. The child 
is drowsy, and may even go into a stupid sleep. We frequently find, 
too, an enlargement of the right parotid gland. 

Let us now study some of the concordant remedies of Ammonium 
carb. in this disease. First of all Belladonna. Between this remedy 
and Ammonium carb. the resemblance is only apparent. Both reme- 
dies have right side of the throat affected, bright red rash, scarlatina 
and drowsiness. But the distinction between the two lies in this: 
there is in Ammonium carb. a miliary eruption on the skin, which 
Belladonna has not. The throat in Ammonium carb. is of a darker red 
than in Belladonna y and the drowsiness is more complete. The drowsi- 
ness of the latter remedy alternates with either wildness or starting 
from sleep, or restless delirium or crying out in sleep. In Ammonium 
carb. the patient is in a state of simple somnolence. The starting from 
sleep is not from irritation of the brain, but from stoppage of the 
child's breathing. 

There is some resemblance between Ammonium carb. and Apis yin 
that both remedies have miliary rash, and both are indicated in low 
types of scarlatina with somnolence. Apis has, however, more dropr 
sical symptoms. Whenever it is the remedy, you will find puffiness of 



THE AMMONIUM PREPARATIONS. 66 1 

the throat and oedema of the uvula. But you will also find inflam- 
mation or irritation of the meninges of the brain in Apis, as indicated 
by the sudden shrill crying of the child. This is a sudden shriek, and 
not a mere start as if frightened. There is rolling of the head in the 
pillow. 

Lachesis, though apparently similar to Ammonium carb. in scarla- 
tina, is really inimical to that remedy. It resembles A?nmonium carb. 
in the blueness of the surface, in the somnolence, in the engorgement 
of the neck and in the dark red or bluish swelling of the throat. 
Lachesis has almost always, if not always, that extreme sensitiveness 
of the surface, so that the patient cannot bear to have anything touch 
the neck. Then, too, Lachesis affects more the left side and Ammo- 
nium carb. the right. This sensitiveness of Lachesis is not the same 
kind of soreness that you find in other remedies, as in Apis. This 
symptom is here due to a hypersesthetic condition of the spinal nerves 
ramifying through the affected part. Firm pressure does not aggra- 
vate, although a light touch will. 

Rhus tox. is similar to Ammonium carb. , in that both remedies have 
dark throat and both have drowsiness. It is the left parotid gland 
that is most likely to be affected under Rhus; with Ammo?iium carb., 
it is the right. There is more restlessness under Rhus. 

Next, the action of Ammonium carb. on the mucous membranes. 
This remedy is useful in nasal catarrh. The nose is stopped up at 
night; the patient wakens gasping for breath. He is worse at three 
or four o'clock a. m. The cough is dry and tickling, associated with 
hoarseness, and with a great deal of oppression from mucus in the chest. 
The nostrils are sore and raw, and sometimes, in children, there is a 
discharge of bluish-colored mucus. This symptom is also found under 
Kali bichromicum, Natrum arsenicosum, Arundo Maurit., Ammonium 
muriaticum and Ambragrisea. At times the coryza is scalding, ex- 
coriating the upper lip, with burning in the throat and along the 
trachea. There is a feeling as of a lump in the throat. Dry night 
cough comes, which seems to threaten suffocation; copious flow of 
saliva, with consequent expectoration; beating like a pulse in the chest. 
Ammonium carb. is particularly suited to winter catarrhs. The sputum 
is slimy and contains specks of blood. 

Its near relative, Ammonium muriaticum, will be considered presently. 
It is similar in these catarrhs. Differentially the Carbonate cures catarrhs, 
worse in winter, nose stopped up, worse at night, awakening the patient 



662 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

from sleep, gasping for breath, worse three to four a. m. Cough dry, 
tickling, hoarseness, chest oppressed with mucus. The Muriate 
causes stoppage of one nostril; both stopped up at night; nostrils sore 
and raw; discharge of bluish mucus or scalding coryza, severe burning 
in the throat, etc. 

In the three a. m. aggravation of Ammonium card., you may com- 
pare the Kali salts. 

In this catarrh, with stoppage of the nose, excoriating discharge and 
rawness down the sternum, there are a few drugs which I would have 
you compare. One of these is the Ammonium causticum, which is one 
of the best remedies in the whole materia medica for aphonia, with 
burning rawness in the throat. 

Causticum and Carbo veg. are very similar to Ammonium carb. in this 
rawness and burning down the sternum. 

Laurocerasus has that expectoration containing little specks of 
blood. 

Ammonium carb. has also been used for sprains when the injured 
joint is hot and painful; it follows Arnica. 

Here you may compare Sulphuric acid and Ammonium mur. 

Ammonium Muriaticum. 

( Apis, Arnica, Natrum mur. 
Ammonium mur. < Kali bichromicum. 
( Sepia, Sulphur. 

As I have already explained to you, Ammonium mur. is suited to 
sluggish persons, who are rather corpulent as to the body, but dispro" 
portionately thin as to the limbs. L,ike the carbonate^ it produces 
violent inflammation of the mucous membranes. It also disturbs the 
circulation of the blood. The face reddens during a short, animated 
conversation, especially so, as you might expect, in a warm room. 
There are ebullitions of blood, violent throbbing in all the arteries, ac- 
companied by anxiety and weakness, as if paralyzed. The nervous 
system surfers, too, from the action of Ammonium mur. There is a 
certain periodicity of symptoms, as shown in the chills and fever. The 
paroxysms return every seven days. There are many other symptoms 
of the nervous system; especially do we find this characteristic: pain 
in the left hip, as if the tendons were too short; this makes the patient 
limp when walking. While sitting there is gnawing referred to the 
bones. 



THE AMMONIUM PREPARATIONS. 663 

Sciatica is very readily cured by Ammonuim mur. when the symp- 
toms call for it. The pains are worse while the patient is sitting, some- 
what relieved while he is walking and entirely relieved when he lies 
down. 

Ammonium mur. has also been used for the neuralgic pains which 
may occur in the stumps of amputated limbs. Compare Cepa Staphi- 
sagfia. 

Ammonium mur. is also useful for tearing, stitching pains from 
ulceration in the heels, worse at night in bed and better from rubbing. 

Other remedies attacking the heels are, Pulsatilla (inflamed); 
Causticum, Manganum, (cannot bear the weight on them); Aiitimonium 
crudum, Ledum, Graphites, Ignatia, (they burn at night); Natrum 
card,, and Allium cepa. Sabina is particularly suitable in plethoric 
women who suffer from what they call rheumatic inflammation. 

Ma?iganum is an excellent remedy in rheumatic patients when the 
heels are affected and the patient cannot bear any weight on the heels. 
In addition to this you will find that Manganum is indicated when the 
rheumatic symptoms come in dark, almost bluish, spots. 

Antimonium crudum is useful in soreness of the heels, worse walking 
on a hard pavement. 

Ledum palustre, Graphites and Natrum carb. cause blisters on the 
heels. Sepia, ulcers. 

Allium cepa cures ulcers on the heel when developed by friction of 
the shoe or stocking. 

Anunonium mur. has some influence on the joints. It causes a feeling 
of constriction in these parts. It is one of the remedies that have been 
used in the treatment of chronic sprains. It also affects the fibrous 
tissues about the joints. Thus, it is one of the remedies when there is 
contraction of the hamstring tendons. When the patient walks these 
seem to be drawn tight. This symptom is relieved on continued 
motion. 

On the female organs, Ammo?iium mur. acts more powerfully than 
does Ammonium carb. It has a great many symptoms referred to the 
inguinal and hypogastric regions which would suggest the use of the 
drug in uterine and ovarian diseases. For instance, the patient com- 
plains of tensive pain in one or the other groin. Sometimes this symp- 
tom is described as a feeling as if she had sprained herself. There are 
stitches, cutting and soreness, or, what is more characteristic than all, 
a strained feeling in the groin, which forces the patient to walk bent. 
That is an indication which leads to Ammonium mur. in the treatment 



6,64 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

of deviations of the uterus, and also in ovarian diseases. You will find 
in almost all these cases the characteristic muriate stool, crumbling as 
it passes the anus. We have, too, a characteristic leucorrhcea attend- 
ing the symptoms, a brown and lumpy or else clear and albuminous 
leucorrhoea, which follows every urination. 

Ammonium mur., in that feeling as if sprained in the groin in 
women, finds its counterpart in several other remedies: in Arnica, 
which has that same strained feeling in the groin; in Apis, which has 
it all the way across the hypogastrium, with a sensation as if the skin 
were tight or stretched. 

Next, we have to consider the action of Ammonium mur. on the 
mucous membranes. Beginning with the nose, we find that it causes 
coryza. The nose is "stopped-up" more at night than in the day- 
time. One nostril is usually stopped-up at a time; there is an ex- 
coriating, watery discharge from the nose, which makes the inside of 
the nostrils and upper lip sore. The throat is swollen so that the 
patient cannot open his mouth. The mouth and throat are filled with 
a viscid phlegm, which the patient expels with great difficulty. There 
is throbbing in the tonsils. This is characteristic of Ammonium mur. 
It is a symptom which may suggest it in tonsillitis or in scarlatina 
when the faucial symptoms are so severe as to produce almost com- 
plete strangling. 

The chest symptoms are by no means unimportant in Ammonium 
mur. We find a cough which may accompany the foregoing symptoms 
or which may be separated from them. The cough is very violent, 
and seems to excite the salivary glands, for during it the mouth fills 
with saliva. Hoarseness, with burning and rawness in the larynx, 
necessarily belong to such an acrid remedy as Ammonium mur. Cold- 
ness between the shoulder-blades accompanies the chest affections, as 
in bronchitis and phthisis. The patient also complains of heaviness 
in the chest. This is also noticed in Ammo?iium carb. where it is 
associated with burning. Sometimes the patient will describe his sen- 
sation to you as a feeling as of a lump in the chest. Again, he will 
complain of certain spots in the chest which burn, throb and beat with 
the pulse. 

Ammonium mur. may be used in chronic congestion of the liver. 
Depression of spirits accompanies the disease, and the stools are coated 
with mucus. 



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Ammonium Phosphoricum. 

I have one or two symptoms of Ammortium phosphoricum to give 
you. It has been successfully used in the treatment of constitutional 
gout when there are nodes or concretions in the joints. It is not to be 
used for the acute symptoms, not for the twinges of pain, but when 
the disease has become systemic, and when concretions of urate of 
soda appear in the joints. The worst case of this kind I ever saw was 
that of a man who had been bedridden fifteen years. He showed me 
a box which was filled with these concretions, which he had picked 
out of his joints. They varied in size and looked like lumps of chalk. 
Some of these same concretions could be seen under the skin and along 
the tendons. His hands were twisted out of shape. His feet also 
were affected. He had a cough, which finally killed him, and he ex- 
pectorated from the lungs these lumps of urate of soda. Ammonium 
phos. relieved him for awhile. 



LECTURE LXV. 



SALTS OF LIME.— CALCAREA OSTREARUM 



Calcarea ostrearum. 

Calcarea caustica. 

Calcarea fluorica. 
Calcarea phosphorica. 



Nutrition. 
Blood 



( Anaemia. 

( Leucocythaemia. 



Glands. 
Bones. 



There are quite a number of the salts of lime which have been 
more or less proven. The first one on the list is Calcarea ostrearum or 
the lime of oysters. This preparation, which was given to us by 
Hahnemann, was proven as Carbonate of Lime or Calcarea carbonica. 
It was obtained from the middle stratum of the oyster-shell, where 
Hahnemann supposed he could secure a perfectly pure specimen of 
the carbonate of lime. Chemically speaking, this is not a pure car- 
bonate of lime, for it must contain some of the animal matter belong- 
ing to the oyster. Moreover, it always contains a trace of Calcarea 
bhos. You will thus see the reason why Dr. Hering proposed to call 
it Calcarea ostrearum instead of Calcarea carbonica. Calcarea caustica 
is the ordinary caustic lime. Calcarea fluorica was proven by Dr. Bell, 
of Massachusetts. Of it we have a few symptoms. It is one of 
Schiissler's twelve tissue remedies. This combination of fluoric acid 
with lime gives us a very powerful drug in the treatment of diseases 
of the osseous system. I have already related to you a case in which 
Calcarea fluorica acted well in necrosis of the jaw. We shall also find 
it a useful drug in bone tumors. Calcarea phosphorica is also a valu- 
able drug. 

It should be your duty and your pleasure to know the distinctions 
between these various salts of lime, and especially between Calcarea 
ostrearum and Calcarea phosphorica. They are not indicated in pre- 
cisely the same cases. When one is indicated, the other cannot be. 
They are not difficult to distinguish, so I think we will readily differ- 
entiate them. 

One chapter in the history of Calcarea phosphorica is of some little 
interest. Some years ago a preparation for the cure of a certain 



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disease was put on the market in Europe. It soon gained quite a repu- 
tation. After awhile, cures effected by it became less and less fre- 
quent. Finally, a wealthy man who failed to be cured by the prepa- 
ration, sued the company for deceiving him. Analysis of the 
preparation became necessary. The main ingredient was found to be 
phosphate of lime. In the beginning the manufacturers used the 
phosphate of lime from bones; but later they found a cheaper way of 
making it in the laboratory, and without using bones at all. The 
company claimed that phosphate of lime is phosphate of lime, no mat- 
ter how made or where found. That there is a difference between the 
phosphate of lime as obtained from the chemist's laboratory, and from 
the bones of animals, is shown by the difference in therapeutical 
efficacy of the two preparations, as illustrated in the above case and 
many others. 

Calcarea sulphurica, or the Sulphate of Lime, is another one of 
Schtissler's remedies. It was proven by one of the students of the 
New York College. Schiissler claims that Calcarea sulphurica acts 
energetically in curing suppuration and in removing the tumefaction 
of boils. The proving, while not positive, rather favors this idea. 

There is a use which you may make of this drug, and that is in croup; 
it will act like magic in a case like Hepar, with cough that is loose 
from the mucus in the larynx but which has the opposite modality as 
to heat and cold, namely, the child wants to be uncovered and cool. 

The Hypophosphite of Lime given in the second decimal, has pro- 
duced the following: dull heavy pain on top of the head, causing de- 
pressed feelings, fulness and oppression around the heart, fulness of 
head and chest; veins on hands, arms, neck and head, stand out like 
cords; difficult breathing, must have window open; profuse sweat all 
over; limbs powerless from weakness of the muscles. 

All the salts of lime act prominently in the direction mentioned on 
the board. They all affect the nutrition of the body, hence they are 
of great use in infancy and childhood, when growth must be accom- 
plished. They favor the development of bones and other tissues. 
You will find that some of them, the ostrearum and phosphorica, cause 
anaemia when pushed to the extreme. They all affect the glands and 
they all act on the bones. 



668 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 



Calcarea Ostrearum. 

Calcarea ostrearum is a drug that may come into use in almost every 
form of disease, and is second in importance only to Sulphur. You 
will recall that it is not a perfectly pure carbonate of lime, but con- 
tains some phosphate of lime and some organic matter from the body 
of the oyster. Chemically it differs but slightly from the carbonate of 
lime made in the laboratory. 

Calcarea ostrearum is suited to cases in which there is defective 
growth, hence it is a very necessary remedy in childhood and in in- 
fancy. It affects chiefly the vegetative system, altering materially the 
nutrition of the body. Under its influence secretion and absorption 
progress rapidly, and so it becomes a favorite remedy in cases in which 
the " constitution" is to be changed. The glands are readily affected 
by Lime; they swell, inflame and even become the seat of pathologi- 
cal deposits. This is especially true of the cervical and mesenteric 
lymphatics. The nervous system, is not primarily affected, but be- 
comes eventually influenced by general nutritive failure, thus causing 
spasms, excitement, etc. The Calcarea ostrearum patient is fat and 
plump, rather of a bloated than of a solid, hard fat. It is especially 
suited for children who are scrofulous ; who are fleshy, yet not 
well developed as to bone, brain or muscle. The face is rather pale, 
occasionally, however, flushing up red. Usually the color is of 
a watery or chalky paleness. The child is slow in its move- 
ments. It is not active, nervous, or quick, as we find in the case 
of the Sulphur child. It is peevish and self-willed, especially towards 
morning. Growth is irregular, so that the head is disproportionately 
large to the rest of the body. This defect is one of osseous growth; 
thus you find the fontanelles remaining open, particularly the anterior 
fontanelle. The abdomen is large and has been compared to an in- 
verted saucer or basin. The features are rather large, and the lips, 
particularly the upper, are swollen. Dentition is slow. There is 
craving for boiled eggs. The scalp sweats profusely, particularly 
during sleep. This is not usually a warm sweat, nor is it a cold sweat; 
but it is cool from natural evaporation. When the child awakes, you 
notice the pillow damp or wet for some little space around the head. 
The feet are often cold and clammy. Do not, however, be deceived 
by this symptom, for there are some children who, by wearing too 



CALCAREA OSTREARUM. 669 

heavy a stocking, will have sweaty feet. This patient suffers from 
partial sweating of still other parts of the body. That is in itself an 
almost certain symptom of Calcarea ostrearum. Thus it may affect 
the chest or knees when all other parts of the body may be perfectly 
dry. Now, from this extreme picture we may have the opposite con- 
dition, one of great emaciation. The skin hangs flabby and in folds. 
Despite this emaciation, the abdomen remains abnormally large. Such 
children are scrofulous, and it is genuine scrofula, for which Calcarea 
ostrearum is indicated. 

There is another form, which is tubercular in its character, and in 
this form we have Phosphorus indicated. We find the same swelling 
of the glands, the same indolent ulceration, and the same difficulty in 
learning to talk and walk, but the patient has a delicate, refined skin, 
and the features are sharp and rather handsome. The eyelashes are 
long and silky, and the hair dark and glossy. This is the kind of 
scrofula which will, if not neutralized, ultimately end in consumption 
of the lungs. 

As the Calcarea child grows older it is slow in teething. It may 
even have fever or convulsions attending the tardy eruption of the 
teeth. In cases in which the convulsions persist, Calcarea is far 
superior to Belladonna. Belladonna may help for a while, but the 
deeper acting remedy must follow to complete the cure. Scrofulous 
inflammation of the eyes is almost always present. There are pustules 
on the cornea, and these threaten to destroy that membrane. The 
parts about the ulcer are very vascular. The child dreads artificial 
light in particular, although it complains bitterly of the daylight hurt- 
ing its eyes on awaking in the morning. The discharges from the 
eyes are apt to be bland. The cornea is left more or less opaque by 
ulceration. Calca?-ea has often been used after the acute symptoms, to 
remove the corneal opacity and the chronic thickening of the eyelids. 
No remedy excels Calcarea in corneal opacities; but compare Apis, 
Saccharum officinale, Cuprum, Alumen, Kali bi., Natrum sulph., etc. 

Saccharum officinale in particular is to be remembered as similar to 
Calcarea ostrearum. This drug has been proved on several persons, 
and has many confirmations. It is indicated in children who are large- 
limbed, fat and bloated, with a tendency to dropsy. It has produced 
opacity of the cornea, and it ought to cure it. The mental states 
which lead me to the use of Cane-sugar are these: the child is dainty 
and capricious; he cares nothing for substantial food, but wants little 



670 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

" nicknacks;" he is always cross and whining, and if old enough he is 
indolent, and does not care to occupy himself in any way. Everything 
seems to be too much trouble to him. 

You will find that in the eye-symptoms Calcarea acts better after 
Sulphur than before. It is suited to advanced cases that are sluggish 
and refuse to react to Sulphur. Hahnemann noticed that Calcarea 
particularly followed Sulphur when there was tendency to dilatation 
of the pupils. 

Another remedy which holds a relation to Calcarea ostrearum in 
scrofulous and tubercular ailments is Nitric acid. This must be sub- 
stituted for Calcarea if the ulcers on the cornea progress and threaten 
to perforate or destroy the cornea. 

The Calcarea children are subject to eruptions on the skin, particu- 
larly eczema. This eczema is quite characteristic, too. It appears on 
the scalp, with a tendency to spread downwards and over the face. 
Frequently it appears in patches on the face or scalp, forming thick 
crusts, which are often white like chalk deposits. Another symptom 
which may suggest Calcarea is this: the child scratches its head on 
awakening from sleep. The change from sleep to activity seems to 
excite the itching of the existing eruption. 

We find in these scrofulous children calling for Calcarea, inflamma- 
tion of the external ear or auditory canal, and also of the middle ear 
or cavity of the tympanum. First, Calcarea produces thickening of 
the membrana tympani, with all the symptoms of defective hearing. 
There are humming, roaring and buzzing in the ears, all dependent 
upon the abnormal pressure on the chain of bones. The otorrhoea has 
a sort of pappy or fatty appearance. It is purulent, but it also has a 
pappy appearance, looking just like chewed-up paper. Now, on 
cleansing the external ear of this pus and looking at the membrana 
tympani, you find it perforated from previous inflammation. You will 
find the edge of the rupture thickened and granular, and you may 
even notice a tendency to the formation of polypi. The pains are of a 
sudden, jerking, pulsating character. In three different cases, Calcarea 
30 produced vesicles in the auricles. 

Here Calcarea is, according to the best authorities, to be followed 
by Silicea, if the ulceration becomes very indolent and will not heal 
despite the exhibition of Lime. The Silicea patient has a head dispro- 
portionately large to the rest of the body. The sweat appears on the 
whole head and face rather than on the scalp alone, and the offensive 



CALCAREA OSTREARUM. 67 1 

foot-sweat causes soreness of the feet. These symptoms you will recall 
from our lecture on Silicea. Besides Silzcea, you should here compare 
Calcarea with Hepar and Mercurius. 

Attending these inflammations of the eyes and ears with Calcarea 
we may have scrofulous enlargement of the lymphatic glands of the 
neck, axilla, etc. These are hard and firm, and yield very slowly to 
medicine. 

We have also in these cases a coryza or chronic nasal catarrh. The 
wings of the nose are thickened and ulcerated. There is apt to be a 
moist scurfy eruption about the nostrils. There is an offensive odor, 
as of rotten eggs, gunpowder or manure from the nose. The nose is 
stopped-up, with thick yellow pus. The patient often has nose-bleed 
in the morning. Here you may compare Bellado?ma which follows 
Calcarea well. 

Xow, if the Calcarea children are attacked with summer complaint 
or a genuine cholera infantum, you will find these symptoms of the 
digestive organs: there will be an unusual craving for eggs. Why 
this is I do not know; it may be because of the sulphur in the eggs. 
This is a very common symptom. Milk disagrees. As soon as they 
take it they vomit it in sour cakes or curds. That is a strong symp- 
tom for Calcarea. Or the milk may pass by the bowels in white 
curdled lumps. There are ravenous appetite and thirst, the latter 
being worse toward evening. The diarrhoea, too, is worse toward 
evening, thus being distinguished from Sulphur. The stools are 
greenish, and may contain undigested food. They are more or less 
watery and sour. 

In these symptoms Calcarea ostrearum is similar to two or three 
other drugs. One is sEthusa cyyiapium, or fool's parsley. This 
is indicated in vomiting of children, when they vomit everything they 
drink, particularly milk, which is ejected in white or yellowish or 
greenish curds. This vomiting exhausts the child, so that it at once 
goes to sleep. 

Still another remedy is Antimonium crudum, which has this condi- 
tion: after nursing, the child vomits its milk in little white curds, but 
refuses to nurse afterward; the Aithusa patient, on the contrary, 
wants to nurse again. There is also the characteristic diarrhoea of 
Antimonium crudu?n, which will help you to distinguish it from cases 
that call for Kreosote. If the latter remedy had no other symptom 
than the following it would still be invaluable, and could not be 



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replaced: the stomach is so weak that it cannot retain or digest food, 
so that food is vomited either immediately or hours after eating. 

Phosphorus and Arsenicum should also be compared in this vomiting. 

_Mag?iesium carb., Ipecac and Sulphur should be compared in the sour 
vomiting. 

In diarrhoea with green stools do not forget Calcarea phos. 

Again, we may find Calcarea ostrearum indicated in acute hydro- 
cephalus in the early stages. Here, as in many other cases, it acts 
particularly well after Sulphur. It may even do good when symptoms 
of effusion are present. It is indicated mainly by the general consti- 
tutional symptoms present in the case. 

In these cases you frequently find that it follows the previous use of 
Belladonna. You are called to attend one of these cases. You find 
the patient with hot head, flushed face, starting in sleep, and you give 
him Belladonna, which relieves. In a few days a relapse occurs; again 
you give Belladonna, and this time it fails. This intermittency of the 
disease shows that it is not a Belladonna case. Then you have to select 
another drug, which is sometimes Sulphur and very frequently Cal- 
carea, the latter especially if the patient be the characteristic Calcarea 
child. Bellado?ina and Calcarea are complementary, particularly in 
affections of children, in brain troubles and in dentition. 

Again, we may find Calcarea ostrearum indicated later in life, at 
puberty. Here it is more frequently indicated with girls than with 
boys. We find it called for at the time for the onset of the menses, 
when they are delayed. The girl is apparently plethoric, and suffers 
from congestions of the head and chest. She is fat and apparently 
robust, but if you were to examine the blood of such a patient you 
would find it disproportionately full of white blood-corpuscles or leu- 
cocytes. She complains of palpitation of the heart, dyspnoea and 
headache, worse when ascending. Calcarea will bring on the men- 
strual flow, and will relieve all these symptoms. 

Again, you may find it useful at puberty for similar symptoms when 
tuberculosis of the lungs threatens. The patient has this dyspnoea, 
palpitation and rush of blood to the chest on ascending, and even 
haemorrhages from the lungs. There is dry cough at night, which 
becomes loose in the morning. The patient has fever, which is worse 
in the evening, with partial sweat and soreness of the chest to touch, 
this soreness being worse beneath the clavicles. Digestion is greatly 
disturbed. The patient cannot eat any fat food without becoming 



CALCAREA OSTREARUM. 673 

sick. There is chronic tendency to diarrhoea, and with it prolapsus 
ani. So you see Calcarea is a companion to Phosphorus •, but there is 
a difference between the two remedies. The difference is expressed in 
these few symptoms. In Calcarea, you find the patient scrofulous and 
fat, and his or her past history shows the well-marked symptoms of 
Calcarea. As children they have been slow in teething, have had 
slowly-closing fontanelles, and often there is yet remaining dispropor- 
tionate swelling of the upper lip. 

On the other hand, the Phosphorus patient is slender and overgrown, 
for his years, and narrow-chested. He has a fine grain of tissue, 
rather than fat and coarse as in Calcarea. 

Calcarea is indicated late in phthisis when large cavities are forming. 
It acts particularly upon the right lung about its middle third. There 
will be pain in the middle of the right side of the chest; loud mucous 
rales are heard all over the chest, of course worse on the right side. 
Expectoration is purulent, yellowish-green and bloody. The patient 
has great repugnance to animal food, as meat, which passes undi- 
gested. Emaciation progresses, sweat increases, and the menses, if it 
is a female, become checked. These are the symptoms calling for 
Calcarea in tuberculosis. 

Both Calcarea ostrearum and Calcarea phosphorica affect the middle 
lobes of the lungs. Sepia is here similar, but lacks the external sen- 
sitiveness to touch, in fact may be ameliorated thereby. 

Senega is somewhat similar to Calcarea in fat persons, but may be 
distinguished, having soreness that is worse on moving the arms, espe- 
cially the left arm. 

Still later in life we find Calcarea indicated for the ailments of 
women, particularly for irregularities in menstruation. It is especially 
indicated when the menstrual flow is too frequent, coming every two 
or three weeks, and is profuse, amounting almost to a menorrhagia. 
The flow is provoked by over-exertion or by emotions. The patient 
complains of sweating of the head and coldness of the feet. 

One of the best remedies I know of for ordinary profuse menstrual 
flow, coming frequently and yet without any decided constitutional 
character by which to judge the case, is Trillium pendulum, especially 
if the flow exhausts the patient very much. I have never given it in 
any potency but the sixth. That has been sufficient in all my cases. 

In suppression of the menses Calcarea has several concordant reme- 
dies. Belladonna is suitable when there are hyperemia, rush of blood 
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674 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

to the head, subjective feeling of coldness, wakefulness, and throbbing 
about the temples. 

Gelsemium is indicated in menstrual suppression when there is a 
drowsy, apathetic state. 

Glonoin is an admirable remedy when there is violent throbbing 
about the head, and particularly if the urine is albuminous, as it may 
be, from congestion of the kidneys. 

Aconite is indicated for suppression of menses from violent emotions, 
as fright. 

Still other drugs called for under these last-named circumstances are 
Actea spicata and Lycopodium. 

The leucorrhcea of Calcarea ostrearum is rather profuse, with con- 
siderable itching and burning, and is generally milky, purulent and 
yellow or thick in appearance. It is especially indicated for leucor- 
rhcea occurring before puberty, even in infants. 

Another remedy that I have found very valuable in the leucorrhcea 
of little girls is Caulophyllum, when the discharge is profuse and 
weakens the child very much. 

Sepia, Cannabis saliva, Mercurius, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla and Cubeba 
have also been sufficiently confirmed to be listed here. 

Calcarea ostrearum is useful in diseases of the male sexual organs. 
It is one of that little group of remedies, Nux, Sulphur and Calcarea, 
first suggested by Jahr for sexual weakness arising from masturbation 
or other excesses in sexual indulgence. Calcarea is indicated when 
there is excessive sexual desire, but this sexual desire is more mental 
than physical — that is, there is more passion than the objective con- 
comitants of passion. Erections are diminished or imperfect during 
coitus, emission is imperfect or premature. Calcarea is also indicated 
when, after abuse of this kind, a man settles down to a moral and 
quiet life. His sexual power is of a character just described, and 
its gratification is followed by vertigo, headache and weakness in the 
knees. 

In milder cases, which have not been traced to so deep an origin as 
defective nutrition, you will find Dioscorea all-sufficient for the exces- 
sive loss of semen with weakness of the legs, particularly about the 
knees. 

In old men, who, having spent their youth and early manhood in the 
practice of excessive venery, are just as excitable in their sexual 
passion at sixty as at eighteen or twenty, and yet they are physically 



CALCAREA OSTREARUM. 675 

impotent, Agnus castus is a good remedy. They suffer from constant 
dribbling of semen. 

We may use Calcarea ostrearum from its action on the nervous sys- 
tem. It is indicated in nervous fevers, even in typhoid fevers, in the 
beginning of the disease, with these symptoms: the patient falls into 
a troubled sort of sleep and dreams of some perplexing subject which 
awakens him. He again goes to sleep and dreams of the same thing. 
As soon as he closes his eyes, he sees persons, objects, etc., which dis- 
appear as soon as he opens them. Later, in the course of typhoid 
fever, about the second week, you will find Calcarea ostrearum indi- 
cated when, for instance, the rash will not appear, and the patient 
goes into a sort of stupor. The abdomen swells and becomes more 
tympanitic. The patient becomes very restless and anxious and dis- 
tressed, although he may be unconscious. He cries out, twitches and 
grasps at flocks. The body may be too hot and the limbs cold and 
clammy. There may be diarrhoea or constipation present. He starts 
up from sleep and looks about him as if frightened. A drug which is 
complementary to Calcarea here is Lycopodium. But diarrhoea maybe 
present in Calcarea. This is never the case with Lycopodium. 

Another use that we may make of Calcarea ostrearum in nervous 
affections is one which would not appear from a superficial study of the 
drug, and that is its application in insomnia. The sleeplessness that 
calls for this remedy does not consist simply in lying awake an hour or 
two, but it is that long wakefulness which is the precursor to some dis- 
eases and the accompaniment of others. For instance, during child- 
bed a woman cannot sleep. In such cases you have this class of 
symptoms: she has visions on closing the eyes; she starts and 
twitches at every little noise, and is beside herself with anguish. The 
tongue is dry. She borders on the state of acute mania. Calcarea 
ostrearum, particularly in the thirtieth potency, given every three hours 
during the day, almost invariably produces a desire to sleep the next 
night. How does Calcarea produce it? Like opium, caffeine or 
chloral? No; but by bringing about a health}- sleep. Still another 
use of Calcarea ostrearum is in that unhappy affection, delirium tre- 
mens. It is indicated when there are pretty much the same symp- 
toms as I have mentioned for the insomnia, particularly with visions 
of rats and mice, and of horrible objects which terrify the patient. 
He talks deliriously about fire and murder. He has a constant fear 
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Calcarea ostrearum seems to be able to cure epilepsy, not so much 
the paroxysms themselves, as to aid in the change of constitution by 
which this dreadful disease may be cured. The aura which precedes 
the attack in some cases begins in the solar plexus and moves up- 
wards, and the patient is at once thrown into convulsions, a character- 
istic also of Nux vomica, Bufo and Silicea. In some cases it feels as if 
a mouse were running up the arm. In still others the aura may go 
from the epigastrium down into the uterus or into the limbs. The 
causes for the Calcarea ostrearum epilepsy are fright, suppression of 
some chronic eruption, and also excesses in venery. It follows Sul- 
phur well in these cases. You are apt to think first of Sulphur for 
this sensation as of a mouse creeping up the arm; the symptom is just 
the same in Sulphur and Calcarea; the causes, also, are the same, viz., 
excessive venery or suppression of an eruption. Calcarea is particu- 
larly indicated if Sulphur does not cure, or if the pupils do not dilate 
after the use of Sulphur. 

For the paroxysms, Hydrocyanic acid is a useful drug. 
Artemisia vulgaris is indicated in cases which have arisen from 
fright, and in which the attacks are duplicated. 

If indigestion starts the trouble, Nux vomica is the first remedy to 
be thought of, especially if the aura starts in the epigastrium and 
spreads upwards. 

Calcarea ostrearum is useful in diseases of the bones and in curva- 
tures of the spine, especially for curvatures in the dorsal region in 
children who are slow in learning to talk and walk, who are weak at 
the ankles, and turn their feet in or out according to the muscles that 
are affected. In weak ankles compare Natrum carbonicum, Silicea, 
Car bo animalis, Sepia. 

There is a remedy which has been suggested for this weakness of 
the legs which I have never been able to confirm, and that is Pinus 
sylvestris. This is said to have cured emaciation of the lower extrem- 
ities, with tardiness in learning to walk, in scrofulous children. 

Calcarea ostrearum is also indicated in affections of the joints; for 
instance, in white swelling and in hip- joint disease. It is indicated 
in the second stage of these diseases, when abscesses have formed. 

Now, you must learn to distinguish between Calcarea and Silicea. 
To the superficial observer the cases are very similar, but there are 
some differences which you may note. In the first place, the Silicea 
patient has sweat about the whole head, and this sweat has a sour or 



CALCAREA OSTREARUM. 677 

offensive odor; the head is unduly large, the rest of the body being 
rather emaciated; the sweat of the feet in Silicea is apt to be offensive, 
and produces soreness between the toes and on the soles of the feet; 
the face is rather of an earthy or yellowish- waxen hue. The Silicea 
child is nervous and excitable rather than sluggish, as is the case with 
the Calcarea ostrearum patient. Silicea has the same imperfect nutri- 
tion from defective assimilation that Calcarea has. There seems to be, 
in the Silicea child, a decided weakness of the cerebro-spinal nervous 
system; and yet, with this weakness, there is a certain amount of irri- 
tability, so that it is made worse by any external impression. Thus, 
if there is any tendency to epilepsy, any little emotion will tend to 
throw it into convulsions. There is more tendency to ulceration in 
Silicea than you find in Calcarea. The discharge from these ulcers is 
not a healthy, laudable pus, but it is rather thin and excoriating. 

Calcarea ostrearum is of service in rheumatism. The symptoms 
indicating it are these: rheumatic affections, caused by working in 
water; rheumatism of the muscles of the back and shoulders after 
failure of Rhus. It is also indicated for gouty nodosities about the 
fingers. It may be useful in constitutional gout and in arthritis de- 
formans. 

Rhus tox. seems to be the best remedy we have for lumbago, whether 
the pains are better from motion or not. It seems to have a special 
affinity for the deep muscles of the back. 

Calcarea fluorica is a good remedy to follow Rhus in chronic cases; 
for lumbago, worse on beginning to move but improving on continued 
motion. 

Secale cornutum is indicated for sudden " catch " or " kink " in the 
back. 

Nux vomica is called for in rheumatism of the back, when the pa- 
tient is unable to turn over in bed without first sitting up. 

The uses of Calcarea in eruptions have already been touched upon 
in former lectures. It is one of the best remedies in chronic urticaria. 
It produces herpes, one prominent locality being on the parts of the 
face covered by whiskers, here suggesting a comparison with 
Mezereum, which has itching in the whiskers as from vermin, 
scaliness; Lithium carb., cheeks under the whiskers rough as a grater, 
itching; and Cicuta virosa, thick honey colored scabs in the whiskers 
as well as about the corners of the mouth. 



LECTURE LXVL 

CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA AND HEPAR. 

Calcarea Phosphorica. 

f Cinchona, Zinc, Phosphorus (hydrocephaloid). 
Dulcamara, Silicea, Sulphur. 
Calcarea phos. -j Rhus, Causticum. 

Sulphur, Calcarea ostr., Silicea, Phosphorus. 
Baryta c. (mental weakness). 

The complementary drugs of Calcarea phos. are: Zinc, Ruta gra- 
veolens, and Sulphur. Zinc you will find complementary to Calcarea 
phosphorica in hydrocephaloid; Ruta in affections of the joints and 
periosteum; and Sulphur pretty much as we found under Calcarea 
ostrearum. 

Now there are many symptoms that are common to both Calcarea 
ostrearum and phosphorica. It is not a little perplexing at times, in 
a case which seems to call for lime, to decide which one of these prep- 
arations we should give. Perhaps I can give you distinctions enough 
to enable you to judge. To determine the efficacy of Calcarea phos- 
phorica you must remember its ingredients, lime and phosphorus, and 
you will see how they are modified in their chemical combination, so 
that while we have some resemblances to Calcarea and others to Phos- 
phorus, we have still other symptoms which belong to the combina- 
tion, Calcarea phosphorica, and which are found neither in Calcarea nor 
in Phosphorus alone. 

Calcarea phos. seems especially called for in defective nutrition, 
hence it is often useful in childhood as well as at puberty and in ex- 
treme old age. Beginning with the infant, we shall find it of inesti- 
mable service when the child is thin and emaciated, with sunken, rather 
flabby abdomen, and predisposed to grandular and osseous disease. 
The head is large, and both fontanelles are open. The cranial bones 
are unnaturally thin and brittle. The teeth develop tardily. It has 
curvature of the spine. The child is slow in learning to walk, and the 
spine is so weak that it cannot support the body. The neck is so thin 



CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. 679 

and weak that it cannot support the head, which falls whichever way- 
it happens to be inclined. The child vomits milk persistently, whether 
it be the breast milk or that artificially prepared from the cow. It 
suffers from colic after every feeding. The stools are often green, 
slimy and lienteric, and are accompanied by the passage of a great 
deal of foetid flatus. Sometimes, the stool is very profuse, watery and 
hot. In cholera infantum, the stools may be of the character men- 
tioned, or they may present a flaky appearance from the admixture of 
a small portion of pus. There is, in this cholera infantum, great ema- 
ciation of the whole body. The little face is pale, and the prominent 
parts of the body are cold. There is craving for bacon or ham. 
Mentally, these children are very much depressed, so that they are 
slow of comprehension. They seem to be stupid. Even cretinism may 
be developed by the continued use of Calcarea phosphorica. This will 
place it in your mind, along side of Baryta carb., in mental symptoms. 
As the child grows in years, if not in stature, any exposure to damp- 
ness or wet causes a feeling of general aching or soreness, particularly 
when it is moved. The least motion is unbearable. Do not be misled 
by this aggravation from motion and give Bryonia. It is not here a 
symptom for Bryonia, for it indicates the incipient symptoms of 
rachitis. Every little exposure produces a feeling of heat all over the 
body. The periosteum and the articulations are irritated and inflamed, 
and cause this aggravation from motion. You will find Calcarea phos- 
phorica an excellent remedy to prevent rachitis. If it fails you, you 
may still fall back on Silicea. 

This sensitiveness to dampness enables us to use Calcarea phos. in 
diseases of adults. This I consider an important qualification of the 
drug. Thus, it is indicated in women with a feeling of weakness and 
distress referred to the hypogastrium with uterine displacements, and 
worse by passage of either stool or urine. Especially is it indicated in 
women whose joints ache in every change of the weather. This 
quality separates it from other similarly-acting drugs. The uterine 
symptoms are aggravated by this change in weather, a symptom that 
is prominent in Calcarea phosphorica, more so, in fact, than in either 
Calcarea or Phosphorus. Phosphorus has the gone, weak feeling in the 
hypogastrium, just like Calcarea phos . , but the modality just mentioned 
is absent. 

So, too, we may use Calcarea phos. in rheumatism appearing in any 
change of weather. On exposure to dampness, we find stiffness of the 



680 A CLINICAL MATKRIA MEDICA. 

neck, aching and soreness in the limbs and wandering pains through 
the limbs, particularly around the sacral region and down the legs. 
All these symptoms appear with every change of weather. 

If the patient contracts a cold, it is associated with dryness and sore- 
ness in the throat, stitches in the chest, heat on the lower part of the 
chest and upper arms, and a yellow sputum. 

Another use of Calcarea phos. arises from its action on joints. I 
refer to its use in the treatment of fractures. Wherever bones form a 
suture or joint, there Calcarea phos. has an action. We find it, for 
instance, causing pains along the sagittal suture. Again, where the 
sacrum unites with the iliac bones, forming the sacro-iliac symphyses, 
there Calcarea phosphorica produces pain. If, during pregnancy, a 
woman complains of pain in this locality, Calcarea phosphorica ought to 
help her. 

Now, when there is a sort of artificial suture, as there is at the point 
of coaptation of broken bones, there, also, Calcarea phos. has an action. 
In some cases, the fractured ends may fail to unite; you give Calcarea 
phosphorica, which stimulates the formation of callus. It is better to 
use a low potency of the drug in this case. 

In this respect, Calcarea phos. compares favorably with Symphytum, 
which is also used for non-union of fracture, particularly when the 
trouble is of nervous origin. 

Conchiolin may here be mentioned. It is useful in osteitis at the 
ends of the diaphyses. This " mother of pearl " causes such a disease 
among workmen. 

We have yet another use for Calcarea phosphorica, and that is for 
school-girls, particularly when they get near the age of puberty and 
they are exceedingly nervous and restless. They want to go away 
from home, and when away, they want to come back again. They 
suffer from headache when at school. They develop very slowly and 
are often chlorotic. 

We may use Calcarea phosphorica in children who are suffering from 
marasmus. They have the peculiar craving and the diarrhoea that I 
have already described. The face is white and pale, or else sallow. 
The circulation is so imperfect that the ears and nose are cold. These 
cases, too, have that inability of the neck to support the head, of 
which I have already spoken. 

There is a resemblance between Calcarea phosphorica and Cinchona. 
The latter may prevent this extreme picture if you give it for the 



CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. 68 1 

drowsy, exhausted condition and has cold face, that follows the fre- 
quent and protracted discharges. In these cases, the administration 
of Cinchona will bring the child up and prevent the condition calling 
for Calcarea phos. 

On the other hand, you will find Calcarea phos. will give place to 
Zinc when you have the rolling of the head, grinding of the teeth, 
cold pale face, hot occiput, fidgety motion of the feet ? and other symp- 
toms of this remedy that I have already given you. 

From Baryta carb. this drug is to be distinguished when the child 
under treatment is mentally stupid. 

Ruta holds a complementary relationship in periosteal and articular 
pains. And lastly, 

Silicea resembles Calcarea phos. especially in rachitis, but has more 
offensive head sweat, more constipation and a strong tendency to sup- 
puration, boils, etc. 

In aggravation from exposure to wet we may compare Dulcamara, 
Sulphur, Silicea and Causticum. 

It is highly important to be able to distinguish between Calcarea 
ostrearum and Calcarea phosphoiica. This you can do by comparing 
the descriptions I have given you to-day and yesterday, as follows: 
Calcarea ostrearum has an enlarged abdomen; Calcarea phos. has flabby 
abdomen, from the admixture of phosphorus with the lime. In cholera 
infantum Calcarea ostrearum has craving for eggs; Calcarea phos. for 
salt or smoked meats. The Calcarea ostrearum stools are sometimes 
green, but generally watery, white and mixed with curds. The Cal- 
carea phos. diarrhoea has green, slimy or hot watery stools accom- 
panied by foetid flatus. Calcarea ostrearum has particularly the ante- 
rior fontanelle remaining open; Calcarea phos. has both anterior and 
posterior fontanelles open. 



682 



A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 



Hepar Sulphuris Calcarea. 



Hepar 



{ Belladonna, Lachesis, 

Merc. 
J Spongia, Iod., 

mine, Aeon., 
(^ Silicea, Sulphur 



Bro- 



i . Nervous system ■{ 



{ Depresses 
sensorium. 
Irritability of 
all nerves. 



2. Plastic exudations. 

3. Suppuration. 

4. Catarrhs. 

5. Glands — Bones. 

6. Skin. 

7. Organs. 

8. As an antidote to metals. 

Next, we will consider Hepar sulphuris calcarea. This is really an 
impure calcium sulphide, containing traces of the sulphide of lime, 
organic matter possibly, and very likely, too, minute proportion of the 
phosphate of lime, since it is made from the middle layer of the oyster 
shell and flowers of sulphur. It is a valuable addition to the powers 
of lime and sulphur used separately. It possesses many similarities to 
and marked differences from its components. 

Hepar has some action on the nerves. It is to be remembered as a 
drug that causes over-sensitiveness of the nervous system. Pain seems 
to be intolerable to the patient, and may even cause fainting. An in- 
flamed part feels sore and bruised, and cannot bear the touch of the 
hand or even of a dressing. I mention this as a universal character- 
istic of the drug. I have often given Hepar for cold-sores in the 
corners of the lips when they were about to suppurate, in inflamma- 
tion of the eyes and in styes and pimples, when there was present this 
extreme sensitiveness to touch. 

Mentally, the Hepar patient is rather sad and low spirited, particu- 
larly in the evening. At times there is an impulse to suicide. While 
walking in the open air the patient feels discouraged and cross, and is 
annoyed by the recollection of all the past unpleasantnesses that have 
figured in his previous life. Memory is weakened so that he forgets 
words and localities. And this is most evident when he is particularly 
irritable. He is over-sensitive so that his speech is hasty. 

Hepar is indicated in neuralgia, particularly of the right side of the 
face, after the abuse of mercury and after the unsuccessful exhibition 



HEPAR. 683 

of Belladonna, which seemed indicated, particularly after exposure to 
dry, cold winds. In the neural'gia and other nervous symptoms Hepar 
belongs with Belladonna, Silicea and Sulphur. It frequently follows 
Belladonna, as I have told you; and from Silicea and Sulphur you 
may distinguish it by the other symptoms. A symptom in connection 
with the mental irritability of the patient that I have already men- 
tioned is hasty speech and hasty actions. We find precisely the same 
symptom under Belladonna. "Hasty speech and hasty drinking" is 
the way the symptom reads under the latter remedy. We find it also 
under Lachesis, Dulca?nara and Sulphur. To show you that this is 
a genuine symptom, I will mention a case of hysterical mania cured by 
a physician on the other side of the ocean. He had this one symptom 
to guide him: the patient's speech was hasty and words rolled out in 
profusion. The clinching symptom was that she had taken a great 
deal of Mercury. Hepar cured the mental condition completely. 

We next have to consider Hepar as a remedy in inflammation. It 
is suited to inflammations of a croupous form and inflammation with 
suppuration. In all the inflammations and congestions in which 
Hepar is the remedy, you will find that there is extreme sensitiveness 
of the affected part to touch. This is so characteristic that it must be 
present more or less prominently before Hepar may be the remedy. 
The parts feel bruised and sore, like a boil. This, as I have already 
said, you can carry through all the Hepar inflammations. 

For instance, in ophthalmia, or inflammation of the eyes, or lids, 
you will find that the eyelids are swollen and cedematous, and some- 
times, too, suppurating styes will form. With this there is a bruised, 
sore sensation. The patient cannot bear to have the eye touched; 
neither can he bear the cold air. Cold air and cold applications in- 
crease the suffering, and here you have a good indication separating 
it from Mercurius. Little pimples surround the inflamed eye. Simi- 
lar to Hepar in this particular are: Euphrasia, which has pimples on 
the cheek over which the acrid tears flow, and Phosphorus, which has 
small ulcers around the large ones. 

So again in inflammation of the ear, whether of the external audi- 
tory meatus or of the middle ear, you will find the same soreness to 
the slightest touch. 

We find Hepar indicated in earache when suppuration impends, 
after Belladonna, Chaniomilla or Pulsatilla. It is seldom indicated in 
the beginning. 



684 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

We find these same characteristics of the inflammation present in 
the coryza. The nose is swollen and sore to the touch, especially in 
the inside of the alae or wings of the nose. 

So, again, in face-ache, the bones are exquisitely sensitive to any 
pressure. These are all illustrations of the character of the drug. I 
need not multiply them, because they are found in any part of the 
body in which inflammation occurs. 

If suppuration occurs as the result of the inflammation, we have 
Hepar indicated and exercising a double function. If you give it in a 
high potency when the throbbing, stabbing pains in the affected part 
and the general rigor show the onset of inflammation, it may abort 
the whole trouble. In other cases, if you see that suppuration is 
necessary, and wish to hasten the process, then you give Hepar low. 
In tonsillitis and in boils, particularly in the former, Hepar is indi- 
cated after Belladonna when the latter does not succeed in reducing 
the inflammation before suppuration commences. I will simply re- 
mind you here that I have already mentioned the distinction between 
Bellado7i?w, Hepar, Mercurius and Silicea in this class of diseases. 

Now, if the inflammation becomes croupous, Hepar may be indi- 
cated, whether it be the throat, larynx, bowels or kidneys that are 
involved. The characteristics indicating Hepar in croupous inflam- 
mation of the larynx are these: after exposure to dry, cold winds the 
patient becomes hoarse, with whistling breathing. Respiration is so 
difficult that the child throws its head far back in order to straighten 
the air-passages. The cough is hard, barking and ringing, and at the 
same time accompanied by rattling of mucus. So sensitive is the child 
to cold, that the least exposure, even uncovering an arm or a foot, 
excites a spell of coughing. Thus you see the extreme susceptibility 
of the patient to cold air. Hepar is especially indicated when the 
cough is worse towards morning. Occasionally Hepar may be given 
for cough which occurs before midnight, but then it must be moist and 
not dry. 

You will see from these symptoms that Hepar follows rather than 
precedes A conite and Spongia. Aconite is indicated in the beginning 
of croup when there are great anxiety, high fever, and distressed 
breathing. I would advise you to continue the Aconite some time after 
the symptoms have been relieved, because these cases are very apt to 
relapse. 

If, however, Aconite fails and the cough gets worse the next night, 



HEPAR. 685 

Spongia is usually the remedy, especially if there are dry, hard cough, 
sawing respiration, little or no expectoration, and starting up from 
sleep choking. 

If towards morning, although there is increased secretion and moist 
sound, the croupous symptoms still continue, then the case calls for 
Hepar. 

Bromine usually follows Hepar when the latter is unable to remove 
the exudate. 

Hepar was used by Kafka, in Bright' s disease following scarlatina. 
He was led to this by the power of the drug to produce fibrinous or 
croupous exudations. Hepar has succeeded in these cases many times, 
so that it must have some action on the kidneys. Kafka gives it after 
scarlatina when the urine becomes albuminous and dropsy appears. 

Next we have to consider Hepar in ordinary catarrhs, or what is 
commonly called a "cold" with aching through the body. Hepar 
seldom is a remedy in the incipiency, but for the advanced stage of 
a "cold." If it be given at the commencement, it frequently spoils 
the case, whether it be one of coryza or of sore throat, because it is 
more suitable to what has been termed ' ' a ripened cold ' ' when phlegm 
has formed. The catarrhal process may have affected the ethmoid, 
with boring pain in the parts and exquisite soreness. When the 
patient swallows, there is a sensation as if he was swallowing a fish- 
bone, or as if there were something sticking in the throat. Sometimes 
he will describe the sensation to be as if there were a crumb of bread 
or toast sticking in the throat. This symptom allies Hepar with 
Mercurius, Nitric acid, Argentum nitricum and Alumina. These colds, 
for which Hepar is the remedy, are re-excited by any exposure. It is 
often indicated when the abuse of mercury has developed in the system 
a susceptibility to cold. 

In affections of the lungs, we find Hepar indicated in two or three 
classes of disease. We find it called for in pneumonia, especially dur- 
ing the stage of resolution. It comes in late in the disease (and not in 
the beginning) when, during resolution, pus forms and you have pres- 
ent suppuration instead of the normal resolution. Hepar ought also to 
be indicated in croupous pneumonia. Here, as in all other croupous 
inflammations, it is called for late in the disease. 

You may also give Hepar successfully in the treatment of that fright- 
ful disease, pulmonary tuberculosis, when, with the deposit of tubercles 
in one or the other apex, you have a hard, croupy cough, with 



686 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

production of mucus, worse in the morning. It here frequently 
follows Spongia. It may bring about absorption of the tuberculous 
deposit. 

When a cold reaches the chest, Hepar does wonderfully well if the 
catarrh threatens to affect the capillary tubes. 

A good distinction between Hepar and Antimonium tartaricum in 
this connection is that the latter has loose rattling mucus; the former 
wheezing, purring sound, as if the exudate was more tenacious. Com- 
pare also Jaborandi, which has increased production of bronchial 
mucus. 

In glandular disease, Hepar is indicated in the stage of suppuration, 
when the inflammation has gone on to the formation of pus. You will 
find it especially useful in the treatment of bubo, whether venereal or 
not, especially after the abuse of mercury. Even old buboes remain- 
ing open after mercury, and discharging continually, sometimes heal 
under Hepar. 

It is not uncommon to find cases of indigestion embraced under the 
name dyspepsia, which have resulted from a long course of mercurial 
treatment by physicians of the dominant school. Hepar, as one of the 
antidotes to mercury, will sometimes cure these cases. Sometimes a 
cure is impossible. Still, I think, relief is always obtainable from one 
remedy or another. We may also find Hepar indicated by dyspepsia, 
independently of this cause, by the following symptoms: there are 
usually a sour taste in the mouth and a longing for strong tasting sub- 
stances, for alcoholic drinks, for wines, for acids, and for condiments 
of various kinds. These seem to relieve by stimulating the stomach; 
so it is the purely atonic form of dyspepsia in which Hepar is indicated. 
There is hunger, a gnawing, empty feeling in the stomach in the fore- 
noon, a longing for something to eat. This craving for food shows the 
atonic condition of the stomach. At other times, although eating does 
him good and increases his general strength, yet it produces a fulsome- 
ness about the stomach. He can bear no pressure about the epi- 
gastrium. Sometimes there is burning in the stomach from congestion 
of that organ. The bowels are usually constipated. Urging to stool 
is often ineffectual, although the faeces be not abnormally hard. 

With Bryonia the stool is large, brown and dry; it is not necessarily 
so with Hepar. 

In Nux vomica the constipation is of a spasmodic, fitful urging and 
not ineffectual. 



HEPAR. 687 

In these dyspeptic symptoms Hepar seems to be complementary to 
Lachests, in that both have this condition: any kind of food, no matter 
how wholesome, provokes indigestion. 

Hepar must not be forgotten in the marasmus of children. Stand- 
ing as it does between Sulphur on one side and Calcarea on the other, 
as a combination of these two, it is here of value. The symptoms 
which lead you to Hepar in the complaints of children are these: there 
seems to be this same weakness of digestion; they cannot manage their 
food, no matter how well-selected it may be. If they are old enough, 
they will tell you the symptoms that I have already mentioned. If you 
give them any strong substance, as a preparation of beef-tea, they will 
show signs of enjoying it very much. Diarrhoea is present, and is 
usually worse during the day and after eating. The stools may be 
greenish or slimy, undigested, or white and sour; this last is a very 
important symptom. The whole child smells sour. The most promi- 
nent remedies for sour stools are Magyiesia carb., next to that Calcarea 
ostrearum, then Hepar, and lastly Rheum. 

The symptoms for Rheum are as follows: sour stool; the whole child 
smells sour; the stools are frequent, brown and frothy, and attended 
with a great deal of straining and violent pain, which makes the child 
shriek. 

If the liver is involved under Hepar, we find soreness and stitches in 
the region of that organ. The stools then become clay-colored, or 
even white. 

The same condition is found in the bladder that we have already 
noticed in the rectum, viz., atony of the muscular coats. Hence, 
when urine is voided, it passes very slowly; it drops almost perpen- 
dicularly from the meatus urinarius instead of being ejected with some 
force. It takes the patient some time to empty his bladder. If with 
this trouble of the bladder you find wetting of the bed at night, 
Hepar is the remedy. It is not often indicated in this condition, 
however. 

In this vesical paresis you should compare Sepia. 

The ulcers which call for Hepar are very sluggish and indolent, 
slow to heal. They are rather superficial and often serpiginous. The 
discharge is bloody and purulent, and has an odor like that of old 
cheese. They have this to characterize them, extreme sensitiveness 
of the border of the ulceration. 

The action of Hepar on the skin is important. In the first place, it 



688 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

produces a condition of non- healing as just indicated. Every little 
scratch of the skin suppurates. The same is also found in Mercurius, 
Chamomilla, Silicea and Lycopodium. It also produces a moist erup- 
tion in the folds of the skin. There is itching, especially in the bends 
of the joints. When Hepar is called for in eczematous eruptions which 
have a purulent discharge, we find it indicated by these symptoms: 
after the abuse of salves or ointments containing zinc or mercury, and 
the eruption is worse in the morning and accompanied by itching. 
Ulcers bleed easily, are extremely sensitive and emit an odor like old 
cheese. 

Hepar is an antidote to metallic poisoning generally, but especially 
to mercury and iodide of potassium. It also antidotes Cinchona and 
Iodine. 

In symptoms of the skin Hepar is similar to Carbo animalis, Sepia , 
Psorinum, Cuprum, Thuja, Zinc, Graphites, Natrum muriaticum and 
Croton tig Hum. 



LECTURE LXVIL 

PREPARATIONS OF SODA. 

The preparations of soda are quite similar, both chemically and 
medicinally, to those of potash, yet this similarity is not such that they 
may not follow the potash salts. We will see that Kali carb. is com- 
plementary to Natrum mur. in some of its symptoms. It seems that 
the salts of soda are indicated particularly in complaints that arise 
every summer or in the spring. Hot weather, electric changes in the 
atmosphere, or the direct rays of the sun give rise to various ailments. 
For instance, we find Natrum carb. useful for chronic headache, trace- 
able to exposure to the rays of the sun. Under Natrum mur., we find 
great debility in summer; the patient feels as though he would faint 
away when walking in the sun. 

The soda salts used in our materia medica are Carbonate of Soda or 
Natrum carb., Chloride of Sodium or Natrum mur., Arseniate of Soda 
or Natrum arsenicosum, Sulphate of Soda or Natrum sulph., Phosphate 
of Soda or Natrum phosphoricum, Natrum hypochlorosum and Borax. 

Natrum Carbonicum. 

Natrum carbonicum is the first preparation of soda we have to con- 
sider. It is much used in the allopathic school of practice as a remedy 
for acidity of the stomach. It is also used by the physicians of that 
school in eczema; for instance, in a case in which there is chronic 
thickening of the skin, the affected parts are bathed in carbonate of 
soda. No doubt, it relieves, but it cannot cure, unless it happens to 
be the indicated remedy, in which case it will cure as well as palliate. 

Carbonate of soda has also been introduced as a remedy for burns. 

In our practice the drug claims a high place, being something of a 
polychrest. Its most prominent action seems to be on the stomach 
and bowels. Many of its symptoms spread from this central point of 
attack. 

For instance, we will find that it has mental symptoms pointing 
quite plainly to hypochondriasis. We find the patient depressed and 
44 



690 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

exceedingly irritable. This is especially noticed after a meal, particu- 
larly after dinner, which is usually the heaviest meal. The degree of 
hypochondriasis seems to be measured by the stage of digestion. Just 
as food passes out of the stomach into the duodenum, this hypochon- 
driacal mood lessens, and continues to do so as the food gets further 
down into the bowels. You will find such a patient decidedly averse 
to society, even to his own family. The indigestion is more marked 
after a vegetable diet, particularly starchy foods. The indigestion is 
accompanied by sour eructations, water-brash and by retching in the 
morning, with spasmodic contraction of both oesophagus and stomach, 
with little or nothing coming to the mouth and, perhaps, copious sali- 
vation. The abdomen is hard and swollen, especially so after eating. 
There is accumulation of flatus in the abdomen, and this, when passed, 
is noticed to be foetid. There is a sort of griping colic just after a 
meal. The stool is difficult to expel, although not especially hard, just 
as we found in Hepar last week, and as we find still more marked in 
Sepia, which, by the way, is complementary to Natrum carb. 

At other times, the patient suffers from diarrhoea. The stool is 
papescent or watery, with violent urging. This characteristic of the 
soda salts, you will find to be quite general. You find it also in 
Natrum sulph. It seems to be due to the purgative effect of the soda 
itself. Wine in such cases as this causes faintness and vertigo, not 
agreeing with the patient at all. 

In these gastric and nervous symptoms we find the nearest analogue 
to Natrum carb. in Sepia, which, as I have mentioned a few moments 
ago, is also its complement. We find in both remedies this aversion to 
society and indifference to one's own family. We find, too, that both 
remedies have sour eructations and the formation of foetid gas in the 
abdomen. I remember curing a case of dyspepsia with Sepia, in which 
there were very few gastric symptoms, nothing more than a feeling of 
discomfort, but the mental symptoms were prominent and always 
ushered in an attack of indigestion. The patient, a lady, became in- 
different to her business affairs and also to her friends. She became 
excessively irritable. She would hardly tolerate even a civil question 
addressed to her. Sepia entirely cured this patient after she had been 
six or seven years under allopathic treatment. This shows you how 
the mental symptoms of Sepia come in, to enable you to decide for it 
as the remedy. Natrum carb. has almost precisely the same class of 
symptoms. It may not be so often indicated, but nevertheless, it comes 



PREPARATIONS OF SODA. 69 1 

in to supplement Sepia when the general symptoms are those of Soda 
rather than those of the former remedy. Natrum carb. has rather dis- 
tension of the abdomen, with fulness and hardness, like all alkalies, 
while Sepia has more goneness and empty, sinking feeling, which food 
does not fill up, except, perhaps, at supper. Natrtim carb. has one 
exception to the fulness of the abdomen, and that is, at ten or eleven 
o'clock in the morning the patient feels anxious and weak, very much 
as you find under Iodine, but eating relieves this and produces disten- 
sion. 

Then, again, you should remember Natrum carb. in connection with 
Nux vomica. Both remedies have this retching in the morning. This 
symptom is strongest, however, in Nux vomica. You are often called 
upon to give Nux vomica when it occurs in pregnant women, or after 
a debauch, etc. Then, too, you find Natrum carb. parallel with Nux 
vomica in this hypochondriasis. You must compare the two remedies 
carefully before you decide which you will give. 

We shall see, too, that Natrum mur. will have to be compared with 
Nattum carb. It is necessary to distinguish between the two because 
they are both soda salts. 

Evidence of the effect of Natrum carb. on the nervous system is 
shown by the electric changes in the atmosphere. Thus, we find it 
causing nervousness or anxiety, which is worse during a thunder-storm. 
These symptoms occur independently of the timidity which belongs to 
some people during thunder-storms, at which times they secrete them- 
selves in the cellar, etc. They are due to the direct effect of the electric 
changes in the atmosphere on the nervous system, precisely as we find 
in other remedies, notably in Phosphorus, Rhododendron, Silicea, 
Bryonia, Natrum muriaticum, Nitric acid and Petroleum. So nervous 
and restless may the Natrum carb. patients become, that playing on 
the piano makes them worse and aggravates their complaints. It is 
not only the music that has this effect, but the efforts they use and the 
position they take. This is a common symptom in hysterical women. 
They get very nervous from playing on the piano or from hearing 
music. 

Another property of Natrum carb. is its use in ill-effects of sum- 
mer weather; this is common to all the soda salts. We find Natrum 
carb. indicated when there is a great deal of debility caused by the 
heat of summer, particularly when the patient is subject to chronic 
headaches, which are worse every time he exposes himself to the heat 



692 A CWNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

of - the sun. Natrum carb. is particularly called for in the chronic 
effects of sunstroke. It may have been years past that the patient was 
overcome by the heat; and now, with the return of hot weather, he 
suffers from headaches. 

Natrum carb. also weakens the nervous system in another direction. 
We find it exhibiting great debility, which is marked with every 
exertion on the part of the patient. His walk becomes unsteady; any 
little obstruction on the pavement causes him to fall. His ankles turn 
in when he attempts to walk. I have a patient, apparently in good 
health, who has had five falls within one year, and, for these accidents, 
I can find no reason. These are the cases that require a remedy, not 
for the effects of the fall, but to tone up the joints or muscles. Other 
remedies besides Natrum carb. having this weakness of the ankles in 
children are Sulphuric acid, Causticum, Natrum mur., Natrum hypo- 
chlorosum } Sulphur and, perhaps, Pinus sylvestris. I mention this last 
remedy with reserve, for while it has been highly recommended in our 
literature for weak legs, it has failed in a number of cases. 

Natrum hypochlorosum or L,abarraque's liquid is not a pure salt, for 
it contains carbonate of soda and calx chlorinata or ordinary " chloride 
of lime." The indications for its use in uterine disease has already 
been given you in a former lecture. (Seepage 142.) It suits lax, 
flabby, indolent children who, in addition to weakness of the ankles, 
have curved spine with prominence of the scapulae and eczema on the 
scalp and behind the ears. They are subject to purulent otonhcea, 
aphthae, to scalding urine, to wetting the bed at night, and when 
asleep, they may have a ghastly look as if dead. 

You will find that Natrum carb. will relieve soreness of the feet, and 
particularly the soles, accompanied by swelling of those parts. You 
may also use it for ulcers on or about the heels after a long walk. 
This symptom brings to mind a peculiar circumstance that I would 
like to mention. Certain remedies have an affinity for certain parts of 
the body. A soldier, who had been marching a great deal, had two 
ulcers, one on the heel, the other on the instep. Natrum carb. cured 
the one on the heel but not the one on the instep, which was afterwards 
cured by Lycopodium. Lycopodium acts on the instep and Natrum 
carb. on the heel. The same thing you note all over the body. There 
are drugs that act on the right tonsil and not at all on the left. You 
find some remedies which act on the great toe and not at all on the 
others. 



PREPARATIONS OF SODA. 693 

On mucous membranes, too, we find Natrum carb., exerting consid- 
erable influence. The crude drug has been known to produce in work- 
men engaged in its manufacture small ulcers on the cornea. Given 
internally, it has cured small corneal ulcers or phlyctenules, with 
great photophobia and stinging pains; particularly are these symptoms 
marked in scrofulous children. 

The catarrhs curable by Natrum carb. are not commonly met with, 
but when they do occur, there is no drug that can take its place. The 
coryza is fluent, and is provoked by the least draught of air, and seems 
to have a periodical aggravation every other day. It is entirely re- 
lieved by sweating. Chronic cases of nasal catarrh or ozsena, even call 
for Natrum carb. when we find thick yellowish- green discharge from 
the nose, or hard foetid lumps. The tip of the nose is red, the skin 
peels off. You find not infrequently, when Natrum carb. is indicated, 
that there will be accumulation of mucus in the posterior nares, or in 
the throat, in the morning, causing "hemming" and hawking until it 
is raised. This is a very common symptom in all the alkalies. 

The cough seems to have its aggravation whenever the patient enters 
a warm room, and is attended with purulent green sputum of a salty 
taste. Among other remedies which have this cough worse in a warm 
room, Bryonia stands foremost. Coccus cacti has it in almost equal 
degree. 

Natrum carb., as I have already told you, is often used in the treat- 
ment of eczema. It seems to have a particular affinity for the dorsa of 
the hands. The skin then becomes rough, dry and chapped. Here, 
again, you find Sepia closely related with Natrum carb. , being par- 
ticularly indicated for this form of eruption when there are little ulcers 
about the joints of the hands. Natrum carb. also cures herpetic 
eruptions in yellow rings. 

On the genital organs, Natrum carb. has some effect. Particularly 
do we find it indicated in diseases of females when there is pressure 
across the hypogastrium as if something were being pushed out. If 
you make an examination in these cases, you will find the os uteri 
indurated and misshapen. There is considerable congestion of a pas- 
sive kind in the uterus, causing pulsation there during and after 
coitus. The extra influx of blood caused by sexual erethism brings 
about this pulsation. The leucorrhcea which Natrum carb. causes is 
thick and yellow, and sometimes has a putrid odor, and ceases after 
urinating. 



694 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKD1CA. 

There is another use you may make of Natrum carb., and that is 
when labor pains are weak and cause a great deal of anguish, tremor 
and perspiration with every pain, and are relieved lyy gentle rubbing, 
which by the way is a general characteristic. 

We also find Natrum carb. to be one of the remedies useful for ex- 
pelling moles or the products of a false conception. 

Natrum Sulphuricum. 

Natrum sulphuricum would hardly have been used by members of 
our school had it not been alluded to by Grauvogl as the central 
remedy for his hydrogenoid constitution. Patients having this consti- 
tution feel every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air; nor 
can they eat plants that thrive near the water. They feel best on a 
dry day. It is this constitution in which, according to Grauvogl, the 
gonorrhceal poison is most pernicious. It finds here the richest soil in 
which it may grow rank. Therefore, he claims that if gonorrhoea 
occurs in such a constitution, to cure the patient not only of the local 
gonorrhceal discharge, but of the constitutional effects, the constitution 
must be altered. This he does with two remedies, Natrum sulph. and 
Thuja. The Natrum sulph. cures obstinate cases of gonorrhoea. 

In the chronic effects of injury, especially to the head, Natrum 
sulph. is almost indispensable. 

You will find Natrum sulph. especially indicated for ailments which 
are either aggravated or dependent upon dampness of the weather or 
dwelling in damp houses. You may think of Natrum sulph. then in 
the sycotic constitution of Hahnemann or the hydrogenoid of Grau- 
vogl. It may even be necessary to give this remedy when there is no 
bubo or urethral discharge to be seen. 

There is a kind of phthisis, not a true tuberculosis, which appears 
in those who have this constitution. The cough is attended with 
muco-purulent expectoration, loud rdles are heard through the chest, 
and the seat of inflammation seems to be the lower lobe of the left 
lung. The patient complains of pain about the ninth and tenth ribs 
on the left side. The Natrum sulph. patient has a marked tendency 
to this catarrh of the chest. If it appears as the result of suppressing 
haemorrhoids or anal fistula, Natrum sulph. is even more strongly in- 
dicated. 

Natrum sulph. is also indicated in asthma which is excited or made 
worse by every spell of damp weather. 



PREPARATIONS OF SODA. 695 

Natrum sulph. also acts on the stomach and abdomen. It produces 
a great deal of flatulence, belching after eating, eructations being 
tasteless or sour. There is a great deal of rumbling of wind in the 
bowels, particularly in the right side of the abdomen, probably in the 
ascending colon. We find, too, a subacute pain in the ileo-csecal 
region, because it has some action on that portion of the intestinal 
tract. Associated with this there is diarrhoea, which comes on regu- 
larly in the morning after rising and returns quite regularly each day. 
Much wind is passed with the stools and is worse in damp weather. 
It is distinguished from Sulphur by this: with Natrum sulph. the diar- 
rhoea comes on more in the forenoon after getting up, whereas, with 
Sulphur it hurries the patient out of bed. 

It is distinguished from Bryonia which has diarrhoea on first rising 
in the morning by the fact that the latter has less flatus, and is aggra- 
vated by hot weather. 

Natrum sulph. is also useful in affections of the left hip-joint in 
patients of this hydrogenoid constitution. The pains are worse at 
night, and arouse the patient from sleep. They cease when he turns 
over in bed. 

Stillingia is useful for hip diseases in secondary or in inherited syph- 
ilis, with pains in and through the hip, worse at night and worse in 
wet weather. 



LECTURE LXVIIL 

NATRUM MURIATICUM. 



Natrum muriaticum. 



Bryonia, Rhus tox. 
Caust., Kalic, Sepia, Lycopod. 
Puis., China, Eupator. perf., Apis, Arsen. 
Lach., Mercurius. 
V l Arg. nitr. 

Apis. Arg. nit. > Nitri sp. dulc. 

> Arsenicum. 

> Phosphorus. 

To-day we begin our study of Natrum muriaticum or common 
table-salt. This has always been held up to us as an opprobium 
against medicine, and as a confirmation of the fallacies of Homoe- 
opathy. A physician once said to me: "What! will you use a sub- 
stance which is used in almost every food and call it a medicine, and 
say that you obtain good effects from it ? " I can assure you, gentle- 
men, as I assured him, that Natrum muriaticum is a medicine, and I 
can assure you, too, that that man afterwards became a warm advo- 
cate of its medicinal virtues. When you potentize a drug you will 
find that you no longer have to depend upon the ordinary laws of die- 
tetics, hygiene or chemistry, but you step into a realm which is dis- 
tinct from the laws of chemistry and of physics. Medicines are then 
no longer subject to the grosser laws. 

Natrum mur. was re-proved by a company of Austrian physicians 
who made heroic provings of some of our drugs. Some of these men 
died from the effects of their provings, so large and powerful were the 
doses of the medicines they took. One of the provers, whose name I 
have forgotten, said, when he published his provings of Natrum mur., 
that the higher potencies of the drug produced the most symptoms, 
and these symptoms, moreover, were more valuable than those pro- 
duced by the low. It is true of Natrum mur. as of most other drugs, 
that the high potencies act best. 

You will notice on the board that I have placed Argent um nitricum 
and Apis as complementary to Natrum mur. Argentum nitricum 



NATRUM MURIATICUM. 697 

holds a complementary relation to Natrum mur. It also, at times, 
antidotes. It acts as a chemical or as a dynamic antidote according to 
the quantity of the drug taken. 

The relation between Apis and Natrum mur. is particularly evident 
in the treatment of chills and fever, and skin affections. Salt is one 
of the substances used to antidote the poisonous effects of bee-stings. 

When salt has been abused as a condiment, sweet spirits of nitre 
may be used as a successful antidote. Some other effects of Natrum 
mur. are antidoted by Arse?iicum, and still others by Phosphorus. I 
do not now recall any remedy inimical to Natrum mur. 

Natrum muriaticum or Chloride of Sodium may be considered first 
in its physiological relations, so that we may learn something of its 
value as a medicine. It enters into every tissue of the body, even into 
the enamel of the teeth. Speaking now physiologically, it is regarded 
as a stimulant to the various tissues into which it enters. It exists in 
quite considerable quantities in the various humors of the eye, par- 
ticularly in the aqueous humor and crystalline lens, and also in the 
vitreous humor. It has been said that its function here is to preserve 
the transparency of the respective tissues. Virchow, in his Pathology, 
quotes an authority who gave Chloride of Sodium to dogs until he pro- 
duced opacity of the crystalline lens. Hence, cataract may be pro- 
duced by Natrum mur. 

Chloride of Sodium in the stomach stimulates digestion and this, too, 
within the bounds of physiology. It stimulates digestion in various 
ways. First, it improves the flavor of food. We all know how insipid 
certain articles of diet are unless salted. We know from physiology 
that if a substance has its taste enhanced, its digestibility is also in- 
creased. That which is agreeable, digests more readily than that 
which is unsavory. Salt also acts on the stomach itself by favoring 
the secretion of gastric juice. Salt acts on the glands, producing an 
increase in the glandular secretions. Thus we find it acting on the 
sudorific glands and also on the mucous glands. 

Schiissler argues that salt is excreted through the mucus, which is 
true. Therefore, he says, that as salt has a function here, it must be 
the remedy for all catarrhs. That is too sweeping a conclusion for so 
limited a premise. It is true that if you examine healthy mucus you 
will find that it contains considerable salt. It is true also that Chlor- 
ide of Sodium produces an excessive flow of normally constituted 
mucus. From this you may take a useful hint. Wherever you find 



698 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

a catarrh with a copious secretion of clear normal mucus, there 
Natrum mur. may be the remedy. We find it acting also on the 
sebaceous glands. These little glands are quite numerous in certain 
parts of the body, particularly around the wings of the nose and the 
cheeks. Their function is to lubricate the skin. Natrum mur. stimu- 
lates these, and as a result the skin becomes oily in appearance. We 
notice this particularly in the face, in the scalp, though it occurs, 
more than likely, in other parts of the body. 

Salt also has a stimulating effect on the nervous system, keeping up 
its tone. Muscular tone is also favored by the presence of salt within 
the tissues of the muscles. This brings me to give you the hint that 
common salt may be used as an external application in weaknesses of 
the muscles and nerves that favor deformities of the limbs. When 
you first notice that a child is walking on the side of its feet, or when 
you meet with a case of post-diphtheritic paralysis, you may use fric- 
tion with salt to great advantage. I do not mean to say that it will 
cure all deformities, for some arise from inflammation of the anterior 
gray cornua of the cord. Chloride of Sodium cannot cure these, for the 
trouble is due to organic disease. 

In weak ankles study Causticum, Sulphuric acid, Sulphur, Natrum 
carb., etc. 

Again, we may sometimes use salt in the form of the sitz-bath for 
obstinate amenorrhcea. 

We shall frequently find Natrum mur. indicated when the blood is 
impoverished. The nutrition of the whole system, therefore, suffers. 
We find it indicated in anaemia, particularly in anaemia provoked by 
loss of fluids, hence often with women who suffer from menstrual dis- 
ease and with men who suffer from loss of semen. We shall often 
find it indicated in scorbutic states of the system when the patient 
suffers more or less from scurvy. It is quite likely that the prolonged 
use of salt meat is a common cause of scurvy. In these cases the 
mouth becomes sore, ulcers form on the tongue and on the gums, and 
the breath has a foetid odor. The tongue presents a mapped appear- 
ance, a symptom we also find in other remedies, as Arsenicum, Rhus 
tox., Kali bichromicum and Taraxacu?n. 

Again, as a result of this impoverishment of the blood, we find the 
nervous system suffering secondarily. 

Natrum mur. may be given for the following symptomatic indica- 
tions: the patient is emaciated, and this emaciation is very marked. 



NATRUM MURIATICUM. 699 

The skin is rather harsh and dry and of a yellowish hue. The patient 
feels greatly exhausted from any little exertion of mind or body. On 
account of the anaemia we have the circulation readily excited, so that 
every little exertion produces throbbing all over the body. The pa- 
tient suffers frequently from palpitation of the heart, and this, too, is 
excited by every motion and ever}' strange or sudden noise. It is 
often described by the patient as a sensation as though a bird's wing 
were fluttering in the left chest. 

Mentally, w T e find these patients sad and tearful. You will seldom 
find Natrum mur. indicated in chronic affections unless there is this 
low-spirited condition of the mind. The patient seems to be made 
worse by any attempt at condolence. Consolation may even make her 
angry. This tearful condition is accompanied by palpitation of the 
heart and intermittent pulse. Xow, this intermittent pulse does not 
necessarily imply organic disease of the heart, but simply a nervously 
weak heart. 

At other times the patient is decidedly hypochondriacal, just as we 
have already found with Natrum carb. This hypochondriasis is 
directly associated with indigestion, as in Natrum carb. But there is 
this difference: with Natrum mur., the remedy under consideration, 
this hypochondriasis keeps step with the degree of constipation, not 
alone with the indigestion, as in the other. 

In addition to this melancholy mood we also have irritability devel- 
oped by Natrtun mur. The patient becomes angry at every little trifle. 
He stores up in his mind every little real or imaginary offence. He 
wakes up at night with palpitation of the heart and cannot go to sleep 
again, because past unpleasant events occupy his mind. 

Intellectual ability is impaired. He becomes disinclined for mental 
work; makes mistakes, as if confused; has loss of memory; study 
aggravates. Frequently school girls suffer from headache, as if little 
hammers were pounding the head, whenever they study. Excitable, 
laughs immoderately at something not ludicrous; fingers move invol- 
untarily, as in chorea; trembling of the limbs; muscular jerks; awk- 
ward; she drops things. Now add to these chronic symptoms the 
following, and you have a complete picture of Natrum mur. Excite- 
ment is always followed by melancholy, anxiety, fluttering at the 
heart; limbs go to sleep, with "crawling," is noted also in the lips 
and tongue; limbs heavy, especially in anaemic girls, whose faces are 
yellow, skin dry and shriveled, and menses scanty or checked. Men- 
tal emotions cause such weakness that one or more limbs are useless. 



700 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Sometimes Kali card, follows in menstrual difficulties. It may 
bring on the menses when Natrum mur. fails. 

While on this subject of the nerves we may as well add the remain- 
ing symptoms: spinal irritation; backache relieved by lying on some- 
thing hard; small of back pains, as if broken; paralyzed feeling in 
lumbar region, worse in the morning after rising; tongue stiff, clumsy 
speech; joints weak, especially the ankles, worse in the mornings. 
This last symptom accompanied by imperfect nutrition, growing thin 
in spite of good appetite, has led to the successful topical and internal 
use of salt in children with weak ankles; the feet turn under while 
walking. 

Now, in mental symptoms, Natrum mur. runs against several drugs. 
One of these is Pulsatilla, which is the most lachrymose remedy of our 
materia medica. But Pulsatilla has rather a tender, yielding disposi- 
tion, that seeks consolation. The more you console her the better she 
likes it. 

Sepia is more similar to Natrum mur. than is Pulsatilla, in that both 
remedies have this low-spiritedness and vehement angry disposition 
combined. Both have Indian-like hatred of those who have injured 
them. In fact, these remedies are complementary to each other. The 
Sepia patient, however, has marked indifference to her household 
affairs. 

The patients who suffer from these mental symptoms calling for 
Natrum mur. are generally chlorotic. They suffer from leucocy- 
thsemia. The menses are often late and scanty, or else cease altogether. 
When the menses have not entirely ceased and are scanty they are ac- 
companied by such marked symptoms as these: decided increase of the 
sadness before menses; palpitation of heart, which, too, is apt to be of 
this fluttering variety, and throbbing headache, which headache con- 
tinues persistently after the menstrual period. The Natrum mur. 
patient frequently suffers too from uterine displacements. She has 
quite characteristically prolapsus uteri, which is induced particularly 
when she gets up in the morning. The symptom reads, ' ' When she 
gets up in the morning, she must sit down to prevent prolapsus." 
This is a functional disease altogether. There is no organic change 
in the uterus, but there is great relaxation in the ligaments which 
support that organ. As she arises in the morning, relaxed instead of 
refreshed after her night's sleep, the uterus falls and she has to sit 
down to prevent this dragging. You will find these uterine symptoms 



NATRUM MURIATICUM. 70I 

accompanied by backache and decided spinal irritation, which is 
greatly relieved by lying flat on the back or by pressing a pillow firmly 
against the back. That I have confirmed over and over again as an 
excellent indication for Natrum mur. In addition, you will have a 
characteristic symptom of the bladder that is just as often present as 
is the prolapsus itself, and that is, cutting in the urethra after urina- 
tion. That symptom, I have seen successfully applied many times. 
Backache and morning aggravation are symptoms which will aid you 
in the selection of Natrum mur. 

Natrum mur. produces a headache, worse from any use of the mind. 
In the morning on awaking, there is throbbing, mostly in the fore- 
head, as if from many little hammers beating in the head. This, too, 
is worse from any use of the mind. The pain is so severe at times as 
to make the patient almost maniacal. With this kind of headache, the 
tongue is dry and almost clings to the roof of the mouth, although it 
may look moist when put out. There is great thirst. The pulse is 
almost always intermittent. This helps you to distinguish it from its 
complement, Sepia, which has a similar symptom. I do not want you 
to forget that sharp headache of Sepia, in the lower part of the brain, 
apparently in the meninges, shooting upwards. The patient can bear 
neither light nor noise. The pain is usually attended with nausea and 
vomiting as a secondary symptom. 

This headache of Natrum mtir. resembles that of Arsenic, Veratrum 
album and China, none of which however have the accompanying dry 
tongue and intermittent pulse of the former. 

Natru??i mur. also produces a headache simulating that of Bryonia; 
sharp stitching about the head and sore bruised feeling about the eye- 
balls, especially when the eyes are moved. I may say that these head- 
aches of Natrum mur. are particularly common in school children at 
the age of ten or eleven. 

Calcarea ostrearum is also a good remedy here. 

You may have occasion to use Natrum mur. in ciliary neuralgia, 
especially when the pains are periodical, returning from sunrise to sun- 
set, being worse at mid-day. 

Spigelia is a drug which also has headache or ciliary neuralgia, 
coming and going with the sun and worse at mid-day. The eyes feel 
too large. 

Gelsemium and Glonoin have not so much neuralgia as throbbing in 
the head, which grows worse with the sun. 



702 A CLINICAL MATERIA MKDICA. 

Natrum mur. also causes headache with partial blindness; here it re- 
sembles Kali bichrornicum, Iris and Causticum. 

Natrum mur. has a very powerful influence on the various portions 
of the eyes. Now all over the body, the drug produces weakness of 
the muscles. This is especially manifest in the muscles of the eyes. 
The muscles of the lids feel stiff when moving them. Letters blur and 
run together when looking steadily at them, as in reading. You see 
that there is marked asthenopia. Natrum mur. is especially indicated 
when the internal recti muscles are affected. These asthenopic symp- 
toms depend upon a general break-down. The spine is weak and 
irritated, digestion is slow and imperfect, and nutrition is not as rapid 
or as complete as it should be. 

Another form of eye disease in which Natrum mur. is indicated, is 
scrofulous ophthalmia. You will be called upon to use the drug in 
such cases when nitrate of silver has been abused. There are smart- 
ing and burning pains and a feeling as of sand beneath the lids. The 
tears are acrid and there is very marked spasmodic closure of the eye- 
lids. You can hardly force them apart. Ulcers form on the cornea. 
The eyelids themselves are inflamed and agglutinated in the morning. 
In addition to these eye symptoms, these scrofulous children suffer 
from eruptions particularly marked at the border of the hair. Scabs 
form on the scalp and from these there oozes a corrosive matter. There 
are moist scabs in the angles of the lips and wings of the nose, and 
with these, emaciation. 

In scrofulous ophthalmia you should compare with Natrum mur. , 
Argentum nitricum, Arse?iicum and Graphites. 

For scabs in the corners of the mouth and wings of the nose, com- 
pare Antimonium crudum, Graphites and Causticum. 

Natrum mur. also causes half -sight. Here you should compare 
Aurum, Lithium carb., Lycopodiwn and Tita?iium. 

Natrum mur. acts on the mucous membranes. We find it indicated 
in catarrhs with mucous secretion abnormal in quantity rather than in 
quality. This hypersecretion of mucus is accompanied by paroxysms 
of sneezing. Fluent alternates with dry coryza. Every exposure to 
fresh air gives the patient cold. The wings of the nose are apt to be 
sore and sensitive. There is almost always in the Natrum mur. 
catarrh loss of smell, and in the acute, frequently loss of taste. 
Natrum mur. is one of the best remedies for hawking of mucus from 
the throat in the morning, when the symptoms call for no other 
remedy. 



NATRUM MURIATICUM. 703 

The tonsils are often very red. The uvula is elongated, probably 
from relaxation of its muscles. There is a constant feeling as of a 
plug in the throat and the patient chokes easily when swallowing. 
The tongue is coated in insular patches. 

The cough arises from the accumulation of clear mucus in the poste- 
rior nares, pharynx and larynx. Of course, there is hoarseness. An- 
other form of cough calling for Natrum mur. y is cough arising from 
tickling in the throat or at the pit of the stomach. This kind of cough 
is accompanied by bursting headache, here reminding one of Bryonia, 
and sometimes, by involuntary spurting of urine, as we find under 
Scilla and Causticum, and often, too, by stitches in the liver. 

Natrum mur. has marked action on the male genital organs. It 
causes great weakness of these, giving rise to seminal emissions dur- 
ing sleep. These are followed by debility and great weakness. The 
genital organs are greatly relaxed. Wet dreams may even occur after 
coitus. That may seem to you an anomalous symptom, but it is not. 
During the act of coitus, erections are not strong and the ejaculation 
of semen is weak or even absent. The consequence is, there is not an 
entire emptying of the seminal vesicles. There is still irritation re- 
maining there. When the man goes to sleep, this irritation, by reflex 
action, excites lascivious dreams. As consequences of the excessive 
seminal loss, we find backache, night-sweat, weakness of the legs and 
the melancholy which is characteristic of the remedy. Natrum mur. 
is not alone among the soda salts in this class of ailments. Natrum 
phos. was proved by gentlemen in this college. They had seminal 
emissions every night. At first, there seemed to be erethism with 
lascivious dreams, but later, emissions took place, one or two in a 
night, without any sensation whatever. These were followed by weak- 
ness of the back and by trembling of the knees, which felt as though 
they would give way. 

You will find, too, that gonorrhoea is curable by Natrum mur., espe- 
cially when chronic. The discharge is usually clear, though it may 
be sometimes yellowish. There is well-marked cutting in the urethra 
after urination. Natrum mur. is especially indicated in cases that 
have been abused by the nitrate of silver. 

Nutrition is greatly impaired under Natrum mur. as I have already 
told you. Emaciation is marked in almost every case in which it is 
the similimum. We may make use of this fact in children who 
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704 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

particularly about the neck. They have a ravenous appetite and, 
despite this, they grow thin, at least they do not grow fat. Here you 
find it comparable with Iodine, but the peculiar emaciation of the neck, 
disproportionate to that of the body, is sufficient to distinguish it from 
that drug. In addition to this, you may have, at times, well-marked 
thirst. The child craves water all the time. This is what the laity 
term inward fever. There is constant heat and dryness of the mouth 
and throat, which the water relieves. If there is constipation when 
Natrum mur. is the remedy, there is a very characteristic stool, hard, 
difficult to expel, Assuring the anus and, as a consequence, there is 
bleeding with the stool. Of course, smarting and soreness is the result 
of the laceration from this large stool. 

Veratrum album has emaciation about the neck, especially in whoop- 
ing-cough. 

Lycopodium has dwindling of the upper part of the chest. 

Natrum mur. , like the other salts of soda, is a first-class remedy in 
the treatment of dyspepsia. We find it indicated when farinaceous 
food, particularly bread, disagrees. The symptom reads, "He is 
averse to bread of which he was once fond." On the other hand, 
there is craving for oysters, fish and salty food or for bitter things. 
After eating, the patient is very thirsty. There is a distressed in- 
describable feeling at the pit of the stomach. This is relieved by 
tightening the clothing, just the opposite to Lachesis and Hepar; and 
precisely the same as Fluoric acid. The constipation, which I have 
described, causes hypochondriasis. The patient is low-spirited and 
ill-humored, and this mental condition seems to keep pace with the 
degree of constipation. When the bowels are moved, the mind is re- 
lieved. You must use this symptom rationally. Those who have 
been accustomed to taking purgative medicines will almost always feel 
badly if their bowels remain costive longer than the usual time. They 
have dull headache, nasty taste in the mouth, etc. , and when the 
bowels move, they feel better. Here, Nux vomica is the remedy. It 
is not often that undisturbed constipation produces this condition of 
mind, but when it does, Natrum mur. is the remedy. 

The rectum suffers from tenesmus with slimy discharge as in chronic 
proctitis. Prolapsus ani with discharge of bloody mucus and water, 
and burning preventing sleep; dryness and smarting of rectum and 
anus, with tendency to erosions of the mucous membrane. Sensation 
of a rough substance in the rectum and yet the bowels are loose. 



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Constriction of the anus, faeces hard and evacuated with such exertion 
as to tear the anus. Chronic water}' diarrhoea with dry mouth, second- 
ary to dry stool. 

In proctitis and constipation you should compare Sepia, which has 
lump in rectum: sEsculus and Collinsonia, which have sensations as of 
splinters or sticks in the rectum. 

The extreme dryness of the rectum resembles Alumina, Graphites, 
Magnesia mur., Ratanhia, sEsculus, etc. G 'rap Jutes has mucus-coated 
stools; Alumina has smarting soreness; Mag?iesia mur., crumbling 
stools; Ratanhia, feeling of splinters of glass and fissures. 

We find Natrum ??iur. indicated in affections of the coarser tissues, 
for instance, of the skin. I have already told you how it affects the 
sebaceous glands. We find that it produces urticaria. The itching is 
very annoying. It occurs about the joints, particularly about the 
ankles. Wheals form on different parts of the body and these itch, 
smart and burn. Especially do we find Natrum mur. indicated when 
these symptoms accompany intermittent fever, or occur after exposure 
to damp cold, especially at the seaside. Exercise makes this nettle- 
rash intolerably worse. • Just here, we find Natrum mur. comple- 
mentary to Apis. 

Apis is an excellent remedy in the treatment of urticaria, but it is 
not so good, I have found, in the treatment of the chronic form of the 
disease. Here we have to use other drugs, as Natrum mur., and above 
all, Calcarea ostrearum. 

There is another form of eruption yet to be thought of for Natrum 
mur., and that is herpes. Thus, we find particularly characteristic of 
Natrum mur., what are called hydroa-labialis. They are little blisters 
which form on the borders of the lips and which accompany every 
marked case of chills and fever indicating Natrum mur. They are 
akin to what are commonly known as fever blisters. Hepar, Natrum 
mur. and Rhus tox. are the remedies which have this symptom most 
marked. Arsenicum also has it. In the very beginning of these cold 
sores, the application of camphor will stop the trouble. If, however, 
they are well advanced, Hepar relieves them and prevents their return. 
Camphor is not a curative remedy, but Hepar is. 

Herpes circinatus, a variety of ring-worm, calls for Natrum mur. 
Other remedies for this trouble are Sepia, Baryta carb. and Tellurium. 

Another form of eruption calling for Natrum mur. is eczema, which 
appears in thick scabs, oozing pus, and matting the hair together, a 
crusta lactea in fact. 
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706 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Lastly, I come to speak of the well-known application of Natrum 
mur. to intermittent fever. There it shares the honors long accorded 
to Cinchona and Arsenic. Natrum mur. is to be considered when the 
chill comes characteristically between ten and eleven a. m. The chill 
begins in the small of the back or in the feet. It is accompanied 
sometimes by thirst, and by aching pains all over the body. Some- 
times urticaria complicates the case. Fever is usually violent. Thirst 
increases with the heat. The headache becomes more and more throb- 
bing. So severe is this cerebral congestion at times that the patient 
becomes delirious. By and by, sweat breaks out quite copiously and 
it relieves the headache and also the other symptoms. This is the in- 
termittent fever curable by Natrum mur. 

When chill occurs at ten a. m., as a result of hectic fever or phthisis, 
Stannum is to be used and not Natrum mur. 

Natrum Arsenicatum. 

Natrum arsenicatum, or the arseniate of soda, affects markedly the 
mucous membranes, producing dryness and sensitiveness to dust, smoke 
and even to the indrawn air, and later the secretion of tough, gluey 
mucus, crusts, etc. This property of the drug has led to its use in 
catarrhs of the respiratory passages. It is indicated in a coryza which, 
as you will observe, resembles somewhat that of the parent arsenic. 
There is a copious discharge of watery fluid from the nose, and yet 
the nasal passages feel stuffed up. This is accompanied with dull, 
supra orbital headache, compressive pain at the root of the nose, dry- 
ness and smarting of the eyes, injected conjunctivae, flushed and puffy 
face and dryness of the throat. There is sometimes a good deal of 
sneezing, which is provoked by the least draft or inhalation of cold air. 
All these symptoms are worse in the morning and forenoon. 

This continues until the mucous secretion becomes thicker. Tough, 
yellow or yellowish grey mucus drops down from the post-nares into 
the throat, or hard, bluish mucus is blown from the nose every morn- 
ing and its removal is followed by bleeding. At night and in the 
morning the nose is stuffed up so that the patient breathes with mouth 
open. 

Looking at the throat, you will find it dark red, swollen, and cov- 
ered with yellow gelatinous mucus which gags the patient when he 
attempts to hawk it out. 



NATRUM MURIATICUM. 707 

As the ' ' cold ' ' creeps downward a dr5^ cough supervenes. There 
is a sensation of oppression in the chest and of stuffiness as if the lungs 
were full of smoke. Soreness in the supra-clavicular regions and 
pain over the fourth and fifth costal cartilages of the right side. The 
oppressed feeling in the chest has this peculiarity: it is better when 
the patient urinates freely, and it is aggravated by dust or smoke. 
You may use the remedy in bronchitis when the above S3^mptoms are 
present, or even in graver forms of disease. It maybe of great service 
in tuberculosis, with emaciation, dry heat of the skin, chilliness at 
night and thirst for small quantities of water frequently repeated. 

Lastly, I have to speak of the use oiNatrum arsenicatuni in psoriasis. 
It should be classed here with Arse?iicum, Arsenicum iodatu??i and 
Sepia. The scales are thin and whitish and when removed leave the 
skin slightly reddened. The eruption is apt to appear on the chest 
and itches when the patient warms up from exercise. 



LECTURE LXIX. 

BORAX VENETA. 

( Staphisagria, Mercurius. 
Borax. < Sepia, Pulsatilla. 
( Bryonia. 

> Chamomilla, Coffea. 

\ Vinegar. 

/ Wine. 

Borax is the biborate of soda. As a medicine, it won its first laurel 
in the nursery, where it has long been used in the treatment of sore 
nipples and children's sore mouth. Like all popular remedies, it has 
been greatly abused. Homoeopathy has rescued it from the nursery 
and now offers it to the profession as a medicine of great value, telling 
when it may and when it may not be used. Underlying this sore 
mouth, which seems to be the keynote for the use of Borax, is a system 
or constitution which will permit of the sore mouth, that is, an illy- 
nourished system. Thus the infant becomes pale or of an earthy hue, 
its flesh grows soft and flabby; it cries a great deal when it nurses, 
screams out during sleep and awakens clinging to its mother as if 
frightened by a dream. It is excessively nervous, so much so that 
the slightest noise, the mere rustling of paper, as well as a distant 
heavy noise, will arouse and frighten it. This nervous excitability 
qualifies the pains. For instance, in the earache, you will find that 
each paroxysm of pain causes the child to start nervously. The ear- 
ache is accompanied by soreness, swelling and heat of the ear, just as 
you find in Belladonna. Pulsatilla and Chamomilla. There is a mucous 
or muco-purulent otorrhcea. Borax is distinguished from these 
remedies by this starting with the pain or from slight noises, by the 
paleness of the face and above all by another well-proved symptom, 
the dread of downward motion. Thus if the little one is sound asleep 
in its mother's arms and she makes the attempt to lay it down in its 
crib, it gives a start and awakens. If she attempts to carry it down 
stairs, it will cling to her as if afraid of falling. This must not be con- 
founded with the excitability of other medicines, as Chamomilla and 



BORAX VEXETA. 709 

Belladonna. It is not simply the motion that awakens the child, for 
the child will not awaken if it is moved without any downward motion. 
It must, then, be the downward motion that arouses it. The reason 
for this is, that the child is suffering from cerebral anaemia and this 
downward motion causes a feeling as though it were going to fall. 
This symptom may also be utilized in adults, as, for example, in the 
case of invalids who have been ordered to take horseback rides, but 
who cannot do so, because when the horse lets them down, they feel 
as if they were in torture. You will also find that ladies, after some 
exhausting disease, cannot use a rocking-chair, because when they 
rock backwards, they feel as if they would tumble. 

The digestion in the Borax case is impaired, as you might infer from 
the defective nutrition. Colic precedes the diarrhoea in the child I am 
describing. The stools are usually green, or they may be soft and 
yellow, but they always contain mucus. Here you have another illus- 
tration of the affinity of Borax for mucous membranes. Aphthous in- 
flammation of the mouth appears as a concomitant of the diarrhoea. 
Aphthae form in the pouches on the inside of the cheeks, on the tongue 
and in the fauces. The mouth is hot, which the mother notices when 
the child takes hold of the nipple. The mucous membrane around 
these aphthae bleeds easily. The child lets go of the nipple and cries 
with pain and vexation, or else refuses the breast altogether. 

Similar to Borax are the following remedies: first, Bryonia; this 
remedy has caused and has cured infants' sore-mouth. But the char- 
acteristic symptom in Bryonia is this: the child refuses to nurse or 
makes a great fuss about it, but so soon as its mouth is moistened, it 
takes hold of the nipple and nurses energetically. Is not this in keep- 
ing with the character of Bryonia? Those of you who know anything 
of that drug will remember how dry the mouth is, and how devoid of 
secretion is the mucous tract. Hence, when the mucous membrane of 
the mouth is moistened the child nurses at once. 

Mercurius comes in as a substitute for Borax when, with the 
sore mouth, there is profuse salivation. Water dribbles from the 
child's mouth. The diarrhoea is accompanied by well-marked tenes- 
mus. These are sufficient distinctions between Mercury and Borax. 

Again, you must remember a neglected remedy, and that is sEthusa 
cynapium, or the fool's parsley. This is to be preferred when the colic 
and crying are accompanied by the violent vomiting characteristic of 
this drug. 



7IO A CUNICAI, MATERIA MEDICA. 

Another remedy is Arum triphyllum. This is readily distinguished 
from Borax by the violence of the symptoms. The inflammation of 
the mouth is exceedingly violent and is accompanied by soreness and 
scabs around the mouth and nostrils. 

Another common baby symptom in the Borax case is that the infant 
screams before urinating. The urine when passed is hot and has a 
peculiar pungent foetid odor. Now this is not to be confounded with 
gravel, which is not uncommon in little children, and which will call 
for Sarsapari/la. Lycopodium, Benzoic acid, etc.; but it is the equivalent 
of the inflammations of other mucous membranes, so that it compares 
with Aconite, Cantharis and another excellent baby medicine, Petrose- 
linum. Do not forget this last named drug. It is not generally men- 
tioned in our materia medicas, yet it is an excellent remedy for condi- 
tions very similar to those calling for Borax when there is sudden 
violent urging to urinate. It may be indicated even in gonorrhoea 
when this sudden urging is present. 

Passing from child to adult, we find that although the aphthous 
condition is still master, we still have many of the other symptoms of 
Borax, the same difficulty in digesting food, the same weakness, and 
the mucous membranes still the point of attack. We find, for instance, 
the conjunctiva, particularly the palpebral portion, affected by Borax, 
giving you soreness especially marked along the borders of the lids. 
The eyelashes grow inwards instead of outwards and irritate the eye- 
ball. You should remember it as a remedy which will sometimes help 
in trichiasis or " wild hairs," and here you should compare it with 
Graphites. 

The nostrils ulcerate in the Borax case, causing a great deal of sore- 
ness, pain and swelling of the tip of the nose. 

On the mucous membrane of the throat we find Borax having an 
action, being indicated, like all the soda salts, for accumulation of 
mucus there. But under Borax, the mucus is tough and difficult of 
detachment. 

The leucorrhoea of Borax is clear, copious and albuminous. Like 
all the other secretions of Borax, this, too, has an unnatural warmth 
or heat to it. 

The action of Borax on the lungs must not be forgotten. We find 
it indicated when there is cough which is accompanied by sharp stick- 
ing pain, worse through the upper part of the right chest. So sharp 
are these pains that they make the patient catch his breath. The 



BORAX VENETA. 7II 

expectoration has a sort of musty, mouldy odor and taste. You can 
often use Borax in lung troubles and even in phthisis when these 
symptoms are present. 

Lastly, we have to mention a few symptoms of the skin. The skin 
is unhealthy ; every little cut or scratch suppurates readily. There is 
itching of the skin, particularly on the backs of the fingers, here being 
something akin to the dorsal eczema of Natrum carb. Little ulcers 
form about the joints of the fingers. 

The best remedy we have for these small ulcers about the joints is 
Sepia. 

Lastly, Borax has been used in erysipelas of the face, particularly of 
the cheeks. The distinctive character of the drug is a feeling as 
though there were cobwebs on the face. 

I would advise to caution your nurses, if you can do so, not to use 
powdered borax every time the child has a sore mouth. It may do 
harm if it is not indicated. I think that I have noticed after this use 
of the drug that the bowels suffer and the child grows paler and 
dwindles rapidly, which it did not do before the meddlesomeness of 
the nurse. 



LECTURE LXX. 

SALTS OF POTASH. 

Toxicologic ally, potash may be of some interest to you when, by 
accident, caustic potash is swallowed. Its great affinity for water 
makes it attack the tissues with great avidity, producing very deep 
escharotic effects. It has more power to penetrate the tissues than 
have some of the other caustics, nitrate of silver, for instance ; hence, 
it has been selected as the caustic for use when it is desired to reach 
far into the parenchyma of a part, as in the treatment of carbuncle ; 
when a large portion of tissue has become gangrenous and a slough 
must be produced, caustic potash is used. The tissues thus acted 
upon have a greasy appearance, which is due to the formation of a 
soap made from the combination of the fats with the potash. Thus it 
differs materially in its action from the mineral acids, which make the 
tissues dry and dark, almost like a mass of tinder. 

When swallowed by accident, for it is seldom used for suicidal pur- 
poses, the effects of caustic potash are violent. It causes such violent 
contraction of the stomach that what little of it gets that far is imme- 
diately ejected by violent vomiting. If the amount of caustic taken is 
sufficient, it causes a brownish film over the mucous membrane, or 
there may be spots here and there in the mouth and throat which are 
denuded of their epithelium. The inflammatory process may increase 
to such an extent that these spots ulcerate, and as they heal they form 
cicatricial tissue with the subsequent unfortunate contraction and 
stricture of the part. 

The antidotal treatment to such accidents is both chemical and 
mechanical ; chemical, to relieve the effect of the drug, and mechan- 
ical, to relieve the trouble that remains. Vinegar, lemon-juice and 
large draughts of mucilaginous drinks are mostly relied upon to relieve 
the acute symptoms of this poisoning. 

But there are many cases of slow poisoning with the potash salts, 
particularly when our allopathic friends use bromide of potassium so 
extensively. We, therefore, have the chronic effects to treat. These 
may require to antidote them : Hepar, which is an antidote to the 
metals in general ; Sulphur, and other remedies may be called for 
according to the symptoms present. 



SAI/TS OF POTASH. 713 

It has been determined by experiments on mammals, that potash, 
particularly the carbonate, acts paralyzingly on the muscles. This ac- 
counts for the general weakness which belongs to all potash prepara- 
tions. This paralyzing effect is very manifest in the case of the heart 
muscle, which becomes early affected in poisoning with potash, the 
animal eventually dying with the heart in diastole, that is, the heart 
is widely dilated at the moment it ceases to beat. With this hint, you 
would expect to find potash salts of use in great muscular weakness, 
in what has been termed paresis, such exhaustion as accompanies con- 
valescence from protracted diseases as typhoid fever. 

We have it on the authority of Dr. Hering, that mushrooms contain 
a large percentage of potash, and are therefore to be recommended as 
an article of diet in cases of exhaustion. 

Kali Bromatum. 

The first potash preparation we will consider is Kali bromatum or 
Bromide of Potassium. We find that this drug is antidoted by Hepar 
mainly. It has some few analogous or concordant remedies, Ambra 
grisea, Hyoscyamus , Stramonium, Tarcntula and My gale. 

Bromide of Potassium acts mainly upon the nervous system and acts, 
in two opposite directions. Primarily, it decreases reflex action; 
secondarily, it depresses the mind. This property of the drug to 
modify reflex action has led to its extravagant use in the treatment of 
epilepsy. It is given in progressively increasing doses until the system 
is affected by what is known as bromism. When the system has be- 
come saturated with the drug, then it is discontinued for awhile. The 
first effect of the drug seems to be to increase reflex action, particularly 
reflex motor action, and it is on this quality of the Bromide of Potassium 
that the allopath bases his prescription. Every little disturbance in 
the periphery of the nerves, every little alternation in the function of 
an organ, is at once reflected to the nervous centres, and produces some 
other disturbances, either an uncomfortable sensation, twitching of 
muscles, anxiety, headache or even absolute convulsions. This is the 
first condition of the Bromide of Potassium. You know that this is 
the starting point of almost all convulsions. Witness, for instance, a 
case of eclampsia, where the pressure of the child on some of the nerves 
in the pelvis or against an undilating os, causes spasms; or still an- 
other case, where some indigestible substance in the stomach produces 



714 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

convulsions. This reminds you at once of Stramonium, in which a 
bright light, by affecting the retina, reflects the irritation to the brain 
and causes convulsions, and of Strychnine, in which the slightest touch 
or a little draft of air, sound or odor, will renew the paroxysms. 

As a result of this oversensitiveness to external impressions, we 
have quite a number of the characteristics of the Bromide of Potassium. 

Many of these are symptoms of the drug calling for its exhibition 
in acute mania when there are sleeplessness and strange imaginations. 
The patient imagines that he will be poisoned ; that he is pursued by 
some demon ; that he is hated by everybody, or that his honor is at 
stake. Some such impression acts on the mind irresistibly, and 
causes him to resort to violent procedures ; thus, he will try to com- 
mit suicide in order to avoid the supposed danger. All this time, the 
pupils are dilated, and the face is bright red and expressive of anguish 
and fear. The body trembles, and the muscles twitch in various parts 
the body. You see how this resembles Hyoscyamus , and they are par- 
allel remedies in this form of disease. 

Kali bromatum has also acted very well in the night-terrors of chil- 
dren, when from over- excitement of the brain, whether it be reflex 
from dentition or worms, or even from affection of the brain itself, the 
child shrieks out in its sleep, and if old enough, will complain of see- 
ing hob-goblins, ghosts or something of that kind. Even when that 
symptom occurs in impending dropsy of the brain, Bromide of Potas- 
sium may be the remedy. 

We have another condition calling for Kali bromatum, and this seems 
to be an irritability of the nerves, not only of the brain, but of the 
whole body. This irritability is expressed by the following symp- 
toms : the patient is nervous and cannot sleep, and feels better when 
engaged at some work. He is either busy playing with his fingers or 
he is walking about, or in some way occupying his mind or body in 
some exertion; then feels better. Simple sleeplessness will not be 
relieved by Kali bromatum unless there is this relief from activity or 
motion. 

In this respect, I find it similar to Tarentula, which also has this 
irritation of the periphery of the nerves relieved by exercise and by 
rubbing. The patient plays with her dress, or with her watch-chain, 
as if to work off this over-irritation of the peripheral nerves. Even in 
the case of the headache of this remedy, the patient rubs the head 
against the pillow for relief. 



SALTS OF POTASH. 715 

Another remedy which is similar to Kali bromatam in this over- 
excitability, is A??ibra gtisea, which has this same sensitiveness to 
external impressions, the slightest influence causing excitement and 
difficulty in breathing. Ambra grisea, however, almost always has 
some sort of vertigo associated with its other symptoms. It is also a 
very quick-acting drug. 

Conversely to this primary action of Kali bromatum, we have an- 
other, one of great depression of the cerebro-spinal nervous system. 
Thus we find it producing absolute loss of memory. The patient can- 
not remember words particularly. Associated with this symptom we 
find a distressing melancholy; everything looks dark and gloomy. 
He cares nothing for anybody nor for his occupation. This condition 
of things often follows excesses in venery, in which case Kali bro- 
matam is an excellent remedy. 

There is also a sort of ataxia developed. The patient seems to be 
unable to manage his legs as he should. There are numbness and 
tingling in the legs and in the spine; this symptom being accompanied, 
in the first stages, by an increase in the sexual appetite, but as the 
case advances it is associated with absence of erection and frequent 
nightly emission of semen, thus increasing the melancholy. 

You will find Bromide of Potassium indicated for business men who 
have worked long and hard, who have pored over difficult problems 
until they have this dizziness, this staggering gait, and this benumbed 
feeling in the brain. It was only yesterday that I prescribed it for a 
business man on Third street, who has been working himself almost 
to death. I expect that it will relieve him promptly and effectually. 
He said that when he had been working at his books he would get a 
numbness in the back of the head, and a certain indescribable terrified 
feeling, as though he were going to lose his senses. Good results 
might also be obtained in this case by the galvanic current, the posi- 
tive electrode being applied to the cervical region and the negative on 
the vertex. But Kali bromatum will give a more permanent relief. 

Now, a word about Kali bromatum as an anti-epileptic remedy. I 
do not believe that it ever cured epilepsy. In almost all cases in which 
it has been given, it has not cured but simply suppressed the disease, 
and thus has produced a worse condition than the one previously 
existing, namely, imbecility. 

Kali bromatum produces lesions of the skin. Its long-continued use 
gives rise to little, hard, dark red papules on the face, surrounded by 



716 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

little vesicles and ending in suppuration. We may, therefore, use the 
drug in acne, particularly that resulting from masturbation. 

Another form of eruption which the Kali bromatum produces is a 
livid blotch as large as one's thumb-nail, covered with scales, and hav- 
ing in its centre a yellowish appearance as if it were suppurating. After 
a while it does suppurate and discharge, leaving a central depression, 
something like that of the small-pox pustule. 

Still a third form of eruption, is an eczema which evidently arises 
from the action of Kali bromatum on the sebaceous or sudoriferous 
glands, causing an abscess in each of these and developing a scaly 
eruption. 

Kali Hydriodicum. 

The Iodide of Potassium, or Kali hydriodicum, does not, like the 
Bromide of Potassium, act on the higher tissues of the body. It seems 
to affect more the lowest tissues, as the fibrous, particularly the 
periosteum and the connective tissue wherever they may be found. 
It attacks the nervous tissues ultimately, probably by involving the 
neuroglia. The tendency of the drug is to produce infiltration, so 
that when it is thoroughly indicated you will almost always find an 
oedematous or infiltrated state of the part affected. Some of the symp- 
toms produced by Iodide of Potassium are due directly to the iodine 
which it contains. For instance, what is known as iodine intoxication 
may be developed by the drug. The patient is very talkative; exhibits 
a great deal of anxiety about the heart; the face is flushed, the head 
is hot, in fact, he acts pretty much the same as one under the partial 
influence of liquor. 

The headache which Kali hydriodicum causes is one of the external 
head, probably from the action of the drug on the aponeurosis of the 
occipito-frontalis muscle, because there appear sharp lumps like nodes 
on the scalp and these pain excessively. This may be a remote symp- 
tom of syphilis or of mercurialization, or it may appear in a patient 
with the rheumatic diathesis. 

In affections of the eyes Kali hydriodicum is called for principally by 
the violence of the symptoms, especially in syphilitic iritis after the 
abuse of mecury. Now, if mercury has not been abused, I do not con- 
sider the Iodide of Potassium to be the best remedy. If there is any 
best remedy for iritis it is Mercurius corrosivus. We may also use Kali 
hydriodicum for inflammation involving both choroid and iris, the result 



SALTS OF POTASH. . 717 

of syphilis. More externally we find pustular keratitis, with chemosis, 
especially after the abuse of mercury. 

Coming next to the nose, we have the following indications for the 
Iodide of Potassium : coryza or catarrh, occurring repeatedly in patients 
who have been mercurialized; every little cold or exposure, or every 
damp day causes the nose to become red and swollen; and acrid watery 
discharge flows from it, and the eyes smart and lachrymate, and be- 
come puffed. The patient is alternately chilly and hot, the urine is 
high colored (as the patient expresses it) and scanty, and there is 
usually some sore throat. Every exposure provokes a return of these 
symptoms. 

Kali hydriodicum also cures this thin excoriating nasal discharge 
when it appears as an inheritance from syphilitic parents. The ozsena 
which it cures is either scrofulous, syphilitic or mercurial, or a combi- 
nation of all these. The discharge may be either thin and acrid, or 
else thick, green and offensive, and attended with burning sensation 
in the nose and even perforation of the nasal bones. 

Next, the action of Iodide of Potassium on the lungs and heart. It 
is not a little singular that all the preparations of Mercurius produce 
sharp, stitching pains through the lungs (through either the right or 
left lung, and shooting in different directions), and that the very best 
antidote to mercury also produces stitching pains through the lungs, 
particularly through the sternum to the back; worse from any motion. 
Now, there are two very different conditions in which Iodide of Potas- 
sium is indicated by these symptoms. One of these is in pneumonia, 
in which disease it is an excellent remedy when hepatization has com- 
menced, when the disease localizes itself, and infiltration begins. In 
such cases, in the absence of other symptoms calling distinctively for 
Bryonia, Phosphorus or Sulphur, I would advise you to select either 
Iodine or Iodide of Potassium. It is also called for when the hepatiza- 
tion is so extensive that we have cerebral congestion or even an effusion 
into the brain as the result of this congestion. Now, the symptoms 
in these cases are as follows: first, they begin with very red face, the 
pupils are more or less dilated, and the patient is drowsy; in fact, 
showing a picture very much like that of Belladonna. If you are 
hasty, you may be led to give that remedy, but it does no good. The 
patient grows worse, the breathing becomes more heavy, and the 
pupils fail to react to light. You know then that you have a grave 
serous effusion affecting the brain, which must be speedily checked or 



7l8 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDIC A. 

the patient will die. Why did not Belladonna cure ? Because all of 
the symptoms were not taken into account. The trouble did not start 
in the brain. The cerebral symptoms are secondary to others. What, 
then, is the primary trouble ? You put your ear to the patient's chest 
and you find one or both lungs consolidated; hence the blood cannot 
circulate through the lungs as it should, and the different organs in the 
body become congested. Here then is a symptom, previously over- 
looked, which explains the failure of Belladonna. Until you have 
proved that Belladomia has produced such a condition, you cannot ex- 
pect it to do any good. 

Another condition in which we may use Iodide of Potassium is in 
pulmonary oedema, thus again showing the infiltration producible by 
the drug. This is almost always, as you know, a secondary trouble. 
The expectoration looks very much like soapsuds, but it is apt to be 
a little greenish. 

We may also have Kali hydriodicum indicated in phthisis pulmo- 
nalis, particularly if there are present this same sort of frothy expecto- 
ration, night-sweats, and loose stools in the morning. The cough is 
of a violent racking, tearing character, and is worse in the morning, 
thus keeping up the tendency of the potash salts, to have aggravation 
of the chest symptoms from two to five o'clock in the morning. I may 
say that these symptoms of the lungs are often consecutive to Bright' s 
disease, in which disease Kali hydriodicum may be the remedy. 

Yerba santa is used by eclectics for phthisis of catarrhal origin. It 
is used empirically. There is a gentleman who has a tendency to 
catarrhal asthma, with thickening of the bronchial tubes and constant 
oppression of breathing. I treated him for a year. Sulphur seemed 
to be indicated, but was given with only partial relief. Finalty, I 
gave him Yerba santa in the tincture. It so far relieved him that 
every morning he coughed up a quantity of sputum, and there then 
followed a freedom of breathing he had not had for years. 

The action of Kali hydriodicum on the heart is also characteristic. It 
produces a horrible smothering feeling about the heart, awakening 
the patient from sleep and compelling him to get out of bed. This 
symptom is also found under Lachesis, Kali bichromicum y Lactuca, 
Euphrasia, Graphites, and some others. 

It is also useful for repeated attacks of endocarditis or pericarditis 
of rheumatic origin. There are sharp, darting pains in the heart, 
worse from any motion, and particularly bad from walking. 



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In disease of the spine you will find Kali Ziydnodieum indicated by 
these symptoms : feeling as if the small of the back were being 
squeezed in a vise ; bruised pain in the lumbar region and difficulty in 
walking: spinal meningitis with oedema or exudation, particularly 
when of syphilitic origin. 

When gummatous tumors involve the nervous tissues Iodide of 
Potassium is your only hope. 

It may also be of use when rheumatism involves the spine and para- 
plegia results. In these cases I think that it is the neuroglia that is 
attacked. 

It may still further be used in rheumatism of the joints, particularly 
of the knee. This knee-joint is swollen and has a doughy feel ; here, 
again, you see the tendency of the remedy to produce infiltration of 
tissue. There is no fluctuation to be detected. The skin above the 
inflamed joint is apt to be spotted, and the pains are of a gnawing, 
boring character, and are worse at night. 

In sciatica you may give Kali hydriodicum when the pains are worse 
at night, and from lying on the affected side, and when the trouble is 
of mercurial or syphilitic origin. 

You will find that the Iodide of Potassium will sometimes help you 
in the treatment of the so-called contracted kidney, especially when of 
mercurial origin. 

Iodide of Potassium, like all the potash preparations, produces an 
eruption of a papular or of a pustular character. Especially do these 
appear on the scalp and down the back ; when they heal they leave a 
cicatrix. 

You may also remember Iodide of Potassium as a remedy for tertiary 
syphilis, particularly rupia. 

The best antidote to Iodide of Potassium is Hepar.' 



LECTURE LXXI. 

KALI BICHROMICUM. 

Today I shall lecture on Kali bichromicum, or the Bichromate of 
Potash. You would expect in a drug having the combination of this 
one, to obtain not only the results of potash, which forms the base of 
the salt, but also the modifying influence of the chromic acid. You 
will find, therefore, that while there are evident general resemblances 
to the other Kalis, there are decided differences arising from the acid 
combined with it. Chromic acid, as you probably well know, is a 
highly irritating acid. It is a powerful escharotic, destroying animal 
tissue very rapidly, and penetrating quickly into the part, and so pro- 
ducing a deep ulcer or sore. 

Kali bichromicum is a drug which acts generally, although not ex- 
clusively, on fat persons, and fat, chubby children more than on 
adults. We find that it possesses great virtues in inflammation of 
mucous surfaces, with tendency to plastic exudation and pseudo-mem- 
brane. It attacks mucous membranes, causing at first inflammation 
of these, violent in character and associated with a great deal of red- 
ness and swelling, and at first a production of an excessive amount of 
mucus, from over-action of the muciparous glands. This excessive 
mucous secretion is very rapidly turned into a fibrinous exudate ; 
hence there is a tendency to the formation of false membranes. 

This character of the exudation on mucous surfaces gives us the 
well-known characteristic of the Bichromate of Potash, discharges are 
ropy and stringy. This S3miptom is true of the coryza, it is true of 
the discharges in pharyngitis and laryngitis, and it is true of the 
vomited matters in gastric catarrh. It also applies to the leucorrhcea 
and also to the gleety discharge from urethra, which may sometimes 
call for Kali bichromicum. Illustrations, then, of this general charac- 
teristic of the drug are not wanting in any part of the body. We find 
this same quality of the mucous discharges even in scrofulous children, 
for whose diseases Kali bichromicum is often an excellent drug. For 
instance, it is indicated in inflammation of the middle ear, particularly 
when it affects the membrana tympani. There is ulceration not only 
of the membrana tympani, but also of the mucous surface of the middle 



KALI BICHROMICUM. 721 

ear. The distinction between Kali bichivmicum and other remedies in 
these cases is that the discharge is tenacious, stringy and purulent. 
With this there will be earache, with pains of a sharp stitching character 
which shoot up into the head and down into the neck. You will find 
the glands of the neck swollen and also the parotid gland on the 
affected side. This becomes large and indurated, and pains shoot from 
the ear down and into the swollen parotid. 

In these stringy discharges compare Alumen, Senega, Kali carb., 
Asafcetida, Coccus cacti, etc. 

In diseases of the mucous membrane of the throat we find this same 
character to the exudation. Thus, in diphtheria, we find Bichromate 
of Potash indicated under two or three contingencies. It may be a 
remedy when diphtheria assumes the croupous form. The membrane 
is quite thick, and is dicidedly yellow-looking, like wash-leather. The 
tongue is coated yellow or is red, dry and glossy; pain in the throat 
extending to the neck or shoulder.; swollen cervical glands; well defined 
slough in the throat. The discharges, whether coming from the nose 
or throat, or both, are decidedly stringy. This has been, in nry mind, 
a sufficient distinction between Kali bichromicum and the Iodides of 
Mercury. When I am giving Iodide of Mercury in diphtheria, as soon 
as I find that the expectoration becomes stringy I change to Kali 
bichromicum because it suits that condition, and also because it may 
prevent the extension of the disease to the larynx. Although, in 
general, Kali bichromicum is suited to rather sthenic types of inflam- 
mation, yet we have indications enough to prove that it may be suited 
to the adynamic cases also. So far as our knowledge of this drug 
goes it does not produce many neurotic symptoms or blood changes, 
but what few are recorded belong to weariness, sleepiness and prostra- 
tion, etc. , and at times, especially if there is gastro-enteric inflammation, 
there is cold sweat, lowered temperature, pale sunken face, showing 
that the drug may suit actual collapse and cases of asthenic type. 

The Iodide of Mercury is to be thought of in diphtheria when the 
membranous deposit is more or less profuse, involving the tonsils and 
posterior nares. The glands in the neck are swollen. The tongue is 
coated dirty yellow. There is excessive production of mucous in the 
throat, causing a great deal of "hawking." 

Carbolic acid and Kali per man ganicum are kindred remedies in diph- 
theria. Both have putridity well marked, the former associated with 
burning pains in the mouth to the stomach, or little or no pain, dusk} T 
46 



722 A ClvINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

red face, pale about the mouth and nose, rapid sinking of vital forces; 
the latter with painful throat, soreness of the muscles of the neck. 

We find Kali bichromicum indicated in forms of inflammation of the 
throat other than diphtheritic. Thus, it is called for in follicular 
pharyngitis. The follicles of the throat become hypertrophied and 
look like little tubercles on the pharyngeal walls. These discharge a 
white cheesy-like mass, which, when crushed between the fingers, 
gives forth a foetid, disagreeable odor. These are attended by a feeling 
of roughness and dryness in the throat, and at times by an accumula- 
tion of tenacious mucus. You will find this disease a stubborn one to 
treat. In addition to Kali bichromicum, it will be well enough to 
remember Hepar, Kali chloricum (especially when there is a great deal 
of foetor of the breath) and /Esculus hippocastanum , or the horse- 
chestnut. sEsculus resembles Kali bichromicum very closely, but lacks 
the tenacious stringy mucus. There is dry, rough, burning feeling in 
the throat and pharynx and yet no swelling. The face is sallow and 
digestion is slow. There is tendency to portal congestion, as shown by 
deep throbbing in the hypochondrium, and constipation and haemor- 
rhoids. 

In other cases you will have Nux vomica indicated by well-known 
symptoms, which I need not here repeat. 

Still other cases call for Secale cornutum, which has hawking up of 
these little follicular exudates; Sulphur, Hepar, Ignatia, Mercurius 
jod. t also Chimaphila maculata, which produces swollen tonsils, and 
tensive pain in the throat on swallowing. 

We have Kali bichromicum indicated in yet another form of throat 
disease which is neither scrofulous nor croupous nor diphtheritic, but 
syphilitic. Ulcers form on the fauces and tend to perforate. The sur- 
rounding mucous surface is of a coppery-red color. 

It is also indicated in nasal catarrh. It produces, at first, dryness 
of the nasal mucous membrane, with tickling in the nose and sneezing, 
these being especially marked in the open air. The secretion from the 
nose is ropy and stringy, and often collects in the posterior nares. It 
may or may not be offensive. 

In catarrh of the post-nares compare Spigelia, Hydrastis, Natrum 
sulphuricum. The latter hawks up saltish mucus every morning. 

At other times, as in ozsena, there are discharges from the nostrils 
or posterior nares consisting of plugs, or clinkers, as they are sometimes 
called. Lumps of hard green mucus are hawked from the posterior 



KALI BICHROMICUM. 723 

nares, particularly in the morning. At other times (often in syphilitic 
cases) you will find ulcers which carry out the perforating character 
of Chromic acid, and tend to perforate the parts on which they are 
located. 

Kali bichromicum is indicated in true membranous croup. It suits 
best, although not exclusively, light-haired, fair-complexioned chil- 
dren who are rather fat and chubby. The cough has a decidedly 
metallic sound. It has more than the mere bark of catarrhal croup. 
The fauces you will generally find quite red; the tonsils, perhaps, are 
somewhat red and a little swollen. The cough seems to descend; that 
is, the rattling goes down lower and lower until it apparently reaches 
the upper part of the epigastrium, or rather the lower third of the 
sternum, the irritation of the cough seeming to start from there. In 
this position, as well as in the throat, there seems to be a smothering, 
oppressive sensation; breathing becomes very labored. The child has 
smothering spells, arousing it from sleep, choking. The whole chest 
heaves with the efforts at respiration. The membrane forms quite 
thickly in the larynx, narrowing its lumen. The expectoration is 
tough and stringy, and, perhaps, mucous, and contains pieces looking 
like boiled macaroni. The patient is worse in the morning from three 
to five o'clock. Sometimes there is a tendency in these cases of croup 
to extend downwards and involve the trachea, and even the bronchi, 
giving rise to what has been termed croupous bronchitis. This is not 
a very common disease, but it is an exceedingly dangerous one. I 
remember treating a patient who, after taking Kali bichromicu?n, 
expectorated pieces looking like vermicelli and having numerous little 
branches, probably casts of the ramifications of the bronchial tubes. 

One of the remedies following Kali bichromicum well in the throat 
and croupous diseases is Lachesis. It suits particularly when the 
spasmodic cough becomes so violent as to cause choking spells, and 
when the patient drops off to sleep, he awakens as if smothering. Kali 
bichromicum has modified the inflammation, but has not succeeded in 
preventing spasm of the throat. Then Lachesis comes in and relieves 
the remaining symptoms. Should the croupous symptoms increase, 
you ma3- return to Kali bichromicum. 

There is also a resemblance between Mercurius cyanatus and Kali 
bichromicum in diphtheritic croup. 

Kaolin is very useful for membranous croup when it extends down- 
wards, and when one of the characteristic symptoms is intense soreness 
along the trachea and upper part of the chest. 



724 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

The mucous membrane of the stomach, too, falls under the influence 
of Kali bichromicum . The drug is so irritating that it causes gastritis. 
Thus it produces gastric symptoms varying in severity all the way 
from those of simple indigestion to those of malignant disease of the 
stomach. In the milder forms of dyspepsia we find it indicated when 
there is headache, the pain usually being supra-orbital. This may be 
periodical in its return, but is particularly excited by gastric irritation. 
Although it is neuralgic in its character, it is reflex from gastric irrita- 
tion. Another form of headache which is associated with these 
gastric symptoms is one of a peculiar kind. The patient is affected 
with blindness more or less marked, objects become obscured and less 
distinct, the headache then begins. It is violent, and is attended by 
aversion to light and to noise, and the sight returns as the headache 
grows worse. I have met with that symptom in my practice four or 
five times. I have found the same symptoms precisely given under 
Gelsemium, but I have never used that drug under these circumstances, 
so I have not confirmed it. There are quite a number of remedies 
having blinding headache, but Kali bichromicum is the best of them. 
We have Causticum sometimes indicated for blindness with the head- 
ache, but not diminishing as the headache increases. We also find it 
under Natrum mur., Iris versicolor, Psorinum and Silicea. In the latter 
remedy the blindness comes after the headache; in Psorinum before, 
the sight returning before the pain begins. 

With this headache of Kali bich? r omicum the face is apt to be 
blotched and bloated, and covered with pimples or acne. It is also 
sallow and yellowish, as if the patient were bilious. The whites of 
the eyes are yellow and a little puffed. The tongue is thick and 
broad and scalloped on its edges, as though it had taken the imprint 
of the teeth. 

The stomach seems to swell up immediately after a full meal, just 
like Lycopodium. The bowels are constipated, or else there is early 
morning diarrhoea, as you find under Sulphur, Rzimex, Bryonia and 
Natrum sulph. The stools are watery, and are followed by tenesmus, 
which distinguishes this drug from Sulphur, Rumex, Bryonia and 
Natrum sulphuricum, all of which have morning diarrhoea. These are 
some of the gastric symptoms which will yield to Kali bichromicum. 
They are particularly apt to occur after excessive beer drinking. Kali 
bichromicum is one of the best remedies for the chronic effects of ex- 
cessive indulgence in beer and ale. 



KALI BICHROMICUM. 725 

G?iaphalium is one of the little used remedies that has diarrhoea 
worse in the morning. The stools are watery and offensive, with 
nausea and vomiting. It is sometimes useful in the beginning of 
cholera infantum. Urine dark, scanty. Irritability of temper, con- 
tinuing even after the diarrhoea ceases. 

We also find Kali bichromicum producing gastritis, herein very much 
resembling Arsenicum. The vomited matter is sour, and is mixed 
with clear mucus. You see how Kali bichromicum everywhere excites 
an over-production of mucus. The vomit may be bitter from admix- 
ture of bile. It is renewed by every attempt at eating or drinking, 
and is associated with a great deal of distress and burning rawness 
about the stomach. With this kind of vomit you may give Kali bich- 
romicum in the vomiting of drunkards and in the round, perforating 
ulcer of the stomach. 

In dysentery, Kali bichromicum is sometimes indicated. The disease 
occurs periodically in the spring or in the early part of the summer. 
The stools are brownish and watery, and mixed with blood and 
attended with great tenesmus. The distinctive symptom is the appear- 
ance of the tongue, which is dry, smooth, red and cracked. 

In its action on the skin, Kali bichromicum causes, first of all, a rash 
which very much resembles that of measles. Kali bichromicum is par- 
ticularly indicated in measles after Pulsatilla. The latter remedy is 
suited for the milder symptoms, the former for the more severe. The 
inflammation of the eyes grows worse with the formation of vesicles or 
pustules on or about the cornea. The meibomian glands or other 
structures of the lids ulcerate, so that the lids agglutinate, and there 
is more or less purulent discharge from the eyes. The ears, too, be- 
come involved, and there is a discharge from the ears of quite offen- 
sive pus. There are also violent, stitching pains which extend from 
the ear to the roof of the mouth and to the parotid gland on the 
affected side. The external auditory meatus is greatly swollen. Kali 
bichromicum is one of the best remedies we have, when measles is asso- 
ciated with these ear symptoms and swelling of the glands, with sharp 
pains shooting from the ears into the glands. There is also diarrhoea 
which resembles that of Pulsatilla, but differs from the latter in the 
presence of slight tenesmus. The rash is the same as we find in 
nearly every case of measles. In a general way, we may say that it 
resembles Pulsatilla, only it is much worse. It has the simple catarrh 
of Pulsatilla, watery or more commonly yellowish green secretions, 
made worse and even advancing to ulceration. 



726 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

We next find Kali bichromicum , like all the potash salts, producing 
papules. These papules are hard and tend to enlarge and develop 
into pustules. If the crude drug itself be applied to a slight abrasion 
in the skin its caustic action is severe enough to eat down to the bone. 
In extreme cases these pustules may even develop into deeply eating 
ulcers. L,upus, with severe burning pains, has been relieved and in 
some cases cured by this remedy. 

We have also developed by Kali bichromicum symptoms resembling 
those of sycosis. This places the drug alongside of Thuja, Pulsatilla, 
and Sarsaparilla. We find scabs on the fingers, often about the nails, 
and also on the corona of the glans penis. There is a gleet3^ discharge 
from the urethra, which is very often stringy, thus keeping up the 
general action of Kali bichromicum on mucous membranes. Ulcers 
looking like chancres, and tending to eat deeply rather than spread 
superficially, form about the glans penis and prepuce. In addition to 
these symptoms you must have the inflammation of the nose and 
throat of the character already described, w T ith perforating ulcers 
affecting even the bones. 

Kali bichromicum is also called for in inflammations of the eyes; this 
inflammation being rather indolent in character. There is lack of 
reactive power, so that ulcers form which progress slowly and show 
but little tendency to heal of their own accord. The same is true of 
the conjunctivitis, which may be of scrofulous or of sycotic origin. 
The lids are swollen and agglutinated, especially in the morning, with 
thick yellow matter, and, to keep up the indolent character of the 
remedy, you find very little photophobia. Sometimes we find chemosis 
with these cases. It is very similar to Graphites and Calcarea ostr., in 
the indolent ophthalmia. Graphites has more cracking of the tarsi 
and photophobia especially in artificial light. Calcarea and Kali 
bichrom. meet in fat children, leukoma, etc., only Calcarea has the 
photophobia, the sweaty head and large abdomen. 

You will find that iritis, whether syphilitic or not, may call for 
Kali bichromicmn . It is indicated, not in the beginning but late, 
when there has been exudation posteriorly between the iris and crys- 
talline lens, causing adhesions of these structures to each other. 
These exudations, if not too great, will be absorbed under the action of 
Kali bichromicum. Characteristic of this iritis is indolence. There 
is little or no photophobia and not a very decided redness attending 
the inflammation. This is a general hint which will guide you to Kali 



KALI BICHROMICUM. 727 

bichromicum, and will save you the memorizing of less characteristic 
symptoms. Do not, therefore, forget the indolence of the ulceration, 
the absence or deficiency of inflammatory redness and the dispropor- 
tionate absence of photophobia. 

We next come to the action of Kali bichromicum on the chest. It is 
indicated in bronchitis, particularly if the glands are involved. Pos- 
teriorly, on either side of the spinal column, you find dullness on per- 
cussion. The cough is of a hard, barking character, almost as in 
croup. It seems to start from the epigastrium. The expectoration is 
generally of a stringy character. Sometimes it consists of bluish 
lumps, and is attended with a great deal of difficulty of breathing, 
arising mechanically from thickening of the lining membrane of the 
bronchial tubes. The cough is almost always made worse after eating, 
and is better when warmly wrapped up in bed. There is a great deal 
of feeling of tightness in the epigastrium. 

You must also remember Kali bichromicum as a remedy indicated in 
asthma dependent upon bronchiectasia. The bronchial tubes are filled 
up with this tough tenacious exudation. But we find Kali bichromi- 
cum indicated in another form of asthma, which is worse from three to 
four o'clock in the morning, and is especially liable to return in the 
winter weather or in summer time, when chilly. The patient is com- 
pelled to sit up in bed in order to breathe. Relief comes when the 
patient raises stringy mucus. This kind of asthma calls for Kali bich- 
romicum, whether the patient be stout or thin. If you have this after 
midnight aggravation and relief from sitting up and bending forward, 
and from the expectoration of stringy mucus, you have a certain 
remedy in Kali bichromicum. Here is it a perfect complement to 
Arsenicum , which has nearly the same symptoms, but lacks the tena- 
cious sputum. The low potencies have been most successful in the 
treatment of asthma. The high potencies have not failed, but in all 
of the literature that I have been able to see, the low potencies have 
seemed to be the most successful. Whether this is true or not, I do 
not know. I only give you the facts as I find them, that you may 
judge for yourselves. 

Aralia racemosa is another remedy for asthma when the patient 
must sit up for relief. It seems as if he would suffocate if he did not. 
Dry, wheezing or loud musical whistling respiration. But the ex- 
pectoration, at first scanty, later increases, is warm and of a saltish 
taste. 



728 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

Lastly, I have to speak of the use of Kali bichromiaim in rheu- 
matism, particularly in rheumatism which occurs in spring or summer 
weather, when there are cool days or nights. The smaller joints seem 
to suffer. Thus we have pains about the fingers and wrists more than 
in any other part of the body. Pains wander about, suddenly jump- 
ing from one part of the body to another and relieved by moving the 
affected part. Gastric and rheumatic symptoms alternate. I have 
had several instances in which I have been able to confirm this char- 
acteristic of the drug. It is somewhat like Artemisia abrotanum, in 
which remedy diarrhoea and piles alternate with rheumatism. 



LECTURE LXXII. 

CAUSTICUM. 

Causticum is evidently a potash preparation, but its exact compo- 
sition I do not know. Hahnemann was not able to define it, and 
chemists since his time have not been able to tell of what it is com- 
posed. Nevertheless it is a unique remedy, and is one that we can- 
not do without in practice. The drug is conveniently studied under 
the heads placed on the board. 



Carbo veg. 
Lachesis. 
Causticum. <{ Coloc. 

Rhus, Dulc. 



Guaiac um. 



Aconite, Colch. 



Phosphorus. 



Paralysis. 

Spasms. 

Rheumatism. 

Mucous membranes. 

Skin. 

Organs. 



It has a tendency to cause paralysis and spasmodic symptoms, rheu- 
matism, affections of the mucous membranes, and diseases of the skin 
and organs generally. You will recall the fact that there is an inimi- 
cal relation between Phosphorus and Causticum. These remedies do 
not follow each other well, although indicated in the same class of 
diseases. This is to be remembered particularly by those who use the 
higher and medium potencies. 

The main power of Causticum is the first one on the list, the para- 
lytic weakness which the drug exhibits. This paralytic tendency is a 
genuine potash weakness. Causticum is especially suited to patients 
who are timid, nervous and anxious, and full of fearful fancies, par- 
ticularly in the evening at twilight, when shadows grow longer and 
fancy more rife. The child, for instance, is afraid to go to bed in the 
dark. This applies not to the unfortunate child who entertains these 
fears by reason of faulty education, but to the child who is afraid as 
the result of nervous disease. As an adult, the patient is apprehensive 
that something is about to happen, or he feels conscience stricken, as 
if he had committed some crime. When closing his eyes, he sees 



73° A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

frightful images. This is no new symptom to you, as you will recall 
it as belonging to several remedies. The patient, especially if a 
woman, is apt to be tearful and melancholy. The face is a correct 
picture of the mental condition, and is expressive of this low-spirited 
state. The face is apt to be sallow and sickly looking. The patient 
is either taciturn and distrustful, or is inclined to fits of anger, with 
scolding. This is, as you know, by no means dissimilar to Phos- 
phorus, and yet you must not make the mistake of giving one, when 
the other is indicated. Memory' fails. Any attempt at mental labor 
is followed by untoward symptoms, such as stitches in the temples 
when reading or writing, feeling of tension in the head and scalp, 
particularly in the forehead and about the temples. This is worse in 
the evening, and also on awakening from sleep. Here again it is very 
similar to Phosphorus, which also has that feeling of tension. The 
patient also has a rather odd sensation, and one that is not frequently 
met with, and that is a feeling as though there were an empt)^ space 
between the brain and the cranial bones. This is relieved by warmth. 
As odd as this symptom may seem to you, it is not too uncommon for 
you to make note of. Our materia medica is not over rich in this 
direction, and so we ought to utilize every such symptom that we can 
get. 

The vertigo of Causticum is that which belongs to an excited brain 
and spine, such as we find in the incipiency of paralysis, and even of 
locomotor ataxia. There is a tendency to fall either forward or side- 
ways. There is with this vertigo a constant feeling of anxiety and 
weakness of the head. It is worse on rising and on trying to fix the 
mind, indicating a weakened cerebral circulation. The sight is be- 
dimmed as though the patient were looking through a fog. Now, 
concomitant with these brain symptoms you have the following symp- 
toms, one or two of which ought to be present in order to make the 
picture complete. The skin in these cases is apt to be dry and hot, 
and there is almost always constipation, which constipation is quite 
characteristic. It is attended with a great deal of urging, probably 
from defective expulsive effort in the rectal muscular fibres, with red- 
ness of the face and fulness of the bloodvessels. This symptom is very 
common in weak persons and in children when they are nervously 
debilitated. 

Very characteristic of the drug is paralysis of single parts or of 
single nerves. Thus you may have to use it in paralysis oKthe facial 



CAUSTICUM. 731 

nerve, particularly when it is the result of exposure to dry or cold winds. 
It may also be called for in ptosis, when the result of the same cause. 
Causticum is still further called for in paralysis of the tongue, when 
deglutition and speech are more or less destroyed, paralysis of the lips, 
and in glosso-pharyngeal paralysis. In this last-named disease, you 
cannot expect much improvement from any remedy. The larynx and 
the bladder may be attacked. These are illustrations of the local pal- 
sies which come within the range of Causticum. These paralyses ma3* 
be caused either by deep-seated nervous disease, or, very characteris- 
tically, by exposure to cold, particularly to the intense cold of winter, 
when the patient is of the rheumatic diathesis. 

Aconite, like Causticum , is useful in paralyses which are traceable to 
exposure to cold, especially to dry cold winds. Aconite suits well in 
the beginning, and Causticum more when the paralysis has become 
chronic and refuses to yield to the Aconite. 

Rhus tox. and Dulcamara compare favorably with Causticum for 
paralysis of rheumatic origin, provoked by exposure to a damp and 
cold atmosphere, particularly when there have been changes from tol- 
erably warm to cold and wet days. Dulcamara is suited to the begin- 
ning of such cases, and not when the trouble becomes chronic. Rhus 
tox. is suited to chronic cases. 

Nux vomica and Colchicum are also to be thought of in paralysis 
from exposure. 

Stammering has been cured by Causticum when caused by imperfect 
control of the tongue. In paralysis of the tongue, it may require to 
be followed by Stramonium, Dulcamai'a, Muriatic acid or Baryta car- 
bonica. 

You may also find Causticum indicated in paralysis which arises 
from apoplexy; it is not called for, for the immediate results of the 
stroke, not for the congestion, nor for the exudation, but for the 
remote symptoms, when, after absorption of the effused blood has 
taken place, there still remains paralysis of the opposite, side of the 
body. 

Causticum may be applied in diseases of children. It is suited to 
children of a scrofulous habit in whom, though emaciated generally 
and particularly about the feet, the abdomen is large and tumefied. 
The3 T are slow in learning to talk. There is a tendency to scrofulous 
inflammation of the eyes, scabs form about the tarsi ; the conjunctivae 
become injected, and the cornea inflamed. There is a constant feeling 



732 A CUNICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

as of sand beneath the eyelids. An eruption appears about the scalp, 
especially behind the ears, making this portion of the skin raw and 
excoriated. The discharge is slight in quantity and sticky in 
character. Often there is otorrhcea, purulent in its character. The 
child stumbles when it attempts to walk. The cause of this symptom 
will be found in disease of the brain or spine. These cases do not 
recover rapidly. There is defective nutrition in the whole nervous 
system. You must instruct your patients that hygienic measures 
must be observed in conjunction with medicinal, and that you can 
promise a cure if they will but be patient with you. 

Other remedies which may be thought of here are, first, Sulphuric 
acid, which is a good remedy for this weakness or giving way of the 
ankles; another is Sulphur, and still another, Silicea. 

Still further, as illustrating the paralytic effect of Causticum, we find 
it causing aphonia or failure of the voice. This may or may not be 
catarrhal. It is associated with great weakness of the laryngeal mus- 
cles, which seem to refuse their office. This is often the case in 
phthisis and in laryngeal troubles, whether of a tubercular nature or 
not. The paralytic tendency is further illustrated in the cough. The 
patient is unable to expectorate. Just as under Sepia, Drosera, Kali 
carb., Arnica and a few other remedies, the patient succeeds in raising 
the sputum so far, when it slips back into the pharynx. The remedy 
also has this as characteristic: the patient cannot cough deep enough 
for relief. In addition to these paretic symptoms in catarrhs, you 
may also add the following: rawness and burning down the throat 
and trachea, feeling as if these parts were denuded, and hoarseness 
with aggravation in the morning. At this time, also (consistent with 
the action of the potash salts generally), there is accumulation of 
mucus in the fauces and larynx. The sputum often tastes greasy and 
soapy. Drinking cold water relieves the cough. Accompanying the 
cough, we find pain over the hips, which is very characteristic, and, too, 
the cough is often associated with involuntary spurting of urine. This 
last symptom is very characteristic of Causticum. It is also found 
under Natrum mur., Apis, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla and Scilla, which is 
excellent in spurting of urine in old people. 

In the laryngeal symptoms, it is necessary to make a distinction be- 
tween Causticum and Phosphorus. One point of difference is that 
Phosphorus often has evening aggravation of the hoarseness; Causti- 
cum has aggravation in the morning. Both have this nervous 



causticum. 733 

weakness. One sj'inptom I have often found indicating Phosphorus, 
and that is, extreme sensitiveness of the box of the larynx. The pa- 
tient dreads to cough, because it aggravates the laryngeal soreness. 
He dreads to talk for the same reason. Relief from cold drinks is 
found only under Causticum. 

More similar to Causticum yet, is Carbo veg. Here you can make 
no serious mistake, because both drugs follow each other well. If you 
do make the mistake of giving one of these when the other is indicated, 
you will not injure your patient any more than from the delay caused 
by your imperfect selection. Both remedies have this rawness and 
soreness down the throat ; both have hoarseness, Carbo veg. having 
aggravation in the evening and Causticum in the morning. The former 
is indicated after exposure to damp evening air; the latter, after dry, 
cold, severe winter weather. 

Eupatorium perfoliatum is very similar to Causticum in that it causes 
hoarseness worse in the morning. Both remedies are indicated in in- 
fluenza with aching all over the body, but Eupatorium has more sore- 
ness than burning and rawness in the chest. 

In the hoarseness of singers or those who exert their voices a great 
deal, Causticum resembles Rhus tox., Graphites, Arum tri. and Selenium. 

In some cases, when Causticum fails in chronic hoarseness worse in 
the morning or evening, Sulphur is an all-sufficient remedy. 

Still another kind of cough for which you may give Causticum is 
one which improves up to a certain point and then remains stationar)', 
getting neither better nor worse. 

Causticum is a good remedy for buzzing and roaring in the ears, or 
tinnitus aurium, when sounds reecho unpleasantly in the ears. A 
voice which is of an ordinary tone, sounds loud and reechoes in the ear 
with unpleasant confusion. When Causticum is the remedy, these 
symptoms may be concomitant with catarrh of the throat involving the 
Eustachian tube. They may also be symptoms of Meniere's disease, 
of which affection I once cured a case with Causticum. 

There are two drugs which you may compare here, namely. Salicy- 
lic acid and Salicylate of Soda, which have caused and cured Meniere's 
disease. 

You may also compare Carbon bisulphide and the well-known Cin- 
chona. 

When sounds reecho in the ear, think also of Calcarea ostr. and 
Phosphorus. 



734 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

We find Causticum indicated in involuntary urination or enuresis, 
particularly in children. It is especially called for when the accident 
occurs, during the first sleep. The trouble is aggravated in the winter 
and ceases or becomes more moderate in summer. The urine is espe- 
cially liable to escape involuntarily during the day in winter, as the 
result of any excitement. 

Compare in enuresis, Plantago major and Kreosote (involuntary dis- 
charge of profuse, pale urine); Calcarea ostr. (fat children); Sepia, 
(little girls, worse in first sleep); Belladonna (nervous children); Fer- 
rumphos. (during the day). 

For nursing women we may use Causticujn when over-exertion or 
loss of sleep threatens their supply of milk. This makes them very 
low-spirited, and they are apt to have this sallow, sickly complexion 
which is characteristic of Causticum. 

Causticum may be used in spasmodic diseases, even in convulsions. 
Thus it may be used in epilepsy, particularly in la petit mat. When 
walking in the open air, the patient falls, but soon recovers. During the 
unconscious stage, the patient passes urine. Causticum may even be 
used when the attacks are of a convulsive nature, especially when they 
recur at the new moon. Now you are not to consider that the moon has 
anything to do with these epileptic attacks. It is only the laws which 
govern the relation of the planets, which regulate the tides and have to 
do with the periodicity of nature generally that also apply to the moon 
and to the disturbances within the human body; so it is that some 
symptoms are worse at new moon, others at full moon; some at the rise 
and others at the fall of the tide. It does not, therefore, follow, be- 
cause the patient is worse every time at new moon, that the moon 
causes the aggravation. Causticum is, moreover, indicated in epilepsy 
when it is connected with menstrual irregularities, and also when it 
occurs at the age of puberty. In these symptoms Causticum is closely 
allied to Calcarea ostrearum. 

Causticum is indicated in chorea when the right side of the body is 
affected more than the left. The muscles of the face, tongue, arm and 
leg are all involved in the disorderly movements. When the patient 
attempts to speak, words seems to be jerked out of the mouth. The 
patient is anxious and restless in bed at night. He must sit up and 
change his position. He involuntarily throws the head about, and 
finally he falls asleep exhausted. During sleep the legs and arms are 
constantly " on the go." 

Lastly, we may be called upon to use Causticum in rheumatism, 



causticum. 735 

especially when the joints are stiff and the tendons shortened, drawing 
the limbs out of shape. It is frequently indicated in what has been 
termed rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatic pains attack particularly the 
articulation of the jaw. They are worse from cold and are relieved by 
warmth. 

Causticum is also useful in rheumatism of the right deltoid, here be- 
ing comparable with Phosphoric acid, Sanguinaria and Ferritin. 

Now, you will have to distinguish Causticum here from several other 
remedies. Rhus tox. also has rheumatism from exposure to cold. 
Some of the distinctions between it and Causticum I have already 
given you. There is yet another good one. Rhus tox. has restlessness 
and relief from motion all the time. In Causticum the restlessness 
only occurs at night. Further Rhus is worse in damp weather, Causti- 
cum in dry weather. 

Guaiacum is to be preferred to Causticum, and follows that remedy 
well when, in either gout or rheumatism, there are contractions of the 
tendons, drawing the limbs out of shape, aggravated by any attempt 
at motion, particularly if there are well-developed gouty nodosities in 
the joints. 

Colocynth is to be remembered for articular rheumatism when the 
joints remain stiff and unwieldy. The pains in the affected parts are 
of a boring character. 

Causticum also acts on the skin, one of its most characteristic symp- 
toms being warts. It is useful in the cure of these hypertrophies of 
the papillae when they occur on the hands or face. I remember once 
giving Causticum to a child who had two warts on the under e3^elid. 
At the end of the third week after taking the remedy, there was a 
string of warts over the inner canthus of the other eye. I believed 
that these resulted from the Causticum. Of course, I stopped the 
medicine. At the end of several weeks more, all the warts had disap- 
peared, and the child has had none since. This shows you that Caus- 
ticum really produces and cures warts. 

Causticum may be called for in colic after the failure of Colocynth. 
The pains are of a griping, cutting character, and are relieved by 
bending double. Particularly do you find pains of this character 
suggesting the drug in menstrual colic. Previous to the menses, these 
colicky pains appear, and are associated with tearing pains in the back 
and limbs. The menses cease almost entirely at night, or continue 
for days after the normal time. All the sufferings cease entirely at 
night. 



LECTURE LXXIII. 

KALI CARBONICUM. 



Phos. , Carbo veg., Arsen. 
Ant. tart. 

Hypophosphite of lime, Psorinum. 
Caust., Senna. 
Natr. m. 
V I^Lachesis. 



Kali carb. < 



Carbo veg. 

To-day I will study with you Carbonate of potash, known in our 
nomenclature as Kali carb. This is complemental to Carbo veg. and 
similar to it in many forms of disease, particularly in lung inflamma- 
tions. Sometimes when one fails' the other completes the cure; hence 
the origin of the complemental relation. We have quite a number 
of analogues to Kali carb., some of which have been placed on the 
board. We will have occasion to refer to some of these as we go on. 
There is also somewhat of a complemental relation between Kali carb. 
and Phosphorus. 

Kali carb. exerts an influence over the manufacture of the blood, 
quantitatively as well as qualitatively. This is shown in the anaemia 
which the remedy causes. And is illustrated by the following symp- 
toms: frequent chilliness; every time the patient goes out of doors, he 
becomes chilly if the air is in the least cool, not having the normal 
resistance to temperature; quite consistent with this anaemia, there is 
throbbing in the bloodvessels all through the body. This is not 
plethora, but only an appearance of plethora. It is associated with 
local congestions which are really anaemic in origin; the blood being 
normal volumetrically, but is not as rich in red corpuscles as it should 
be. The congestion to the head is associated with humming in the 
ears. The patient surfers from vertigo when he turns his head rapidly, 
or from riding in a carriage, or from anything that diminishes, the 
supply of blood to the brain. He suffers from weakness of sight, 
especially following excessive sexual indulgence. 

Again, we find Kali carb., by reason of this anaemia, indicated after 



KAU CARBONICUM. 737 

severe or protracted diseases. It thus becomes useful for the weak- 
ness following labor or abortion when we have the following symptoms: 
there is a very troublesome backache, a weak, lame feeling in the 
small of the back, which makes walking very difficult to the patient; 
the patient suffers from cough and frequent sweating at night. You 
find persistent discharge of blood from the uterus. The urine is loaded 
with urates. This latter symptom, this excess of urates, shows great 
waste of tissue, and is evidence of the exhaustion which Kali carb. 
causes and cures. 

You will recall that I mentioned Kali carb. as a drug which causes 
great exhaustion in the muscular system, and it is frequently in this 
kind of exhaustion that the urates are excessive in the urine. 

Kali carb. acts not only on the voluntary muscles, but on the heart 
also. The heart becomes weakened when it is indicated, and you thus 
have a pulse which is irregular or intermittent, or, being rapid, is very 
weak. Now, this character of the pulse in Kali carb. will qualify 
every disease in which you may use the drug. It is a characteristic of 
the drug which lies at the very root of its symptoms; therefore, you 
will seldom find Kali carb, indicated when there is a full round pulse. 

This condition of the urine, in which it is loaded with urates as evi- 
dence of exhaustion from disease, is also found under other remedies. 
Perhaps the best remedy in the materia medica for this symptom, 
other things being equal, is Causticum. Remember that this assertion 
is to be qualified. A symptom of this character has not the same 
value as a symptom of the mind would have. It is characteristic in 
its place, and yet, if symptoms more characteristic of the case indicate 
another drug, then you should not think of using Causticum. Sup- 
pose you have a patient whose other symptoms are those of Kali carb. , 
for example, a woman after confinement with backache, sweat, and 
other symptoms of importance, then you may give Kali carb. with 
confidence. But if you have a patient with no prominent symptoms, 
and with this excessive deposit of urates in the urine, Causticum will 
help you out. 

Still another remedy for this symptom is Senna, which is one of the 
best remedies in the materia medica for simple exhaustion with exces- 
sive nitrogenous waste. 

The particular combination of symptoms that we have under Kali 
carb., the sweat, the backache and the weakness, are found in no other 
remedy. It acts as well with the high as the low potencies. 
47 



738 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

You may also remember the Hypophosphite of Lime, which comes 
near to the Kali carb. in the excessive sweating, weakness and pallor 
of the skin. 

You may also remember, as akin to Kali carb., Psorinum, which, as 
you have already learned, is eminently useful in convalescence from 
disease when there is great weakness, profuse sweat and, in addition, 
a mental state of abject hopelessness. The patient despairs of perfect 
recovery. 

Next, let us look at the action of Kali carb. on the nervous system. 
Viewed mentally, the patient is excessively peevish and nervous, and 
is very easily startled. You often find this in women. They are 
startled by imaginary hallucinations; they imagine that some one is 
in the room or some figure comes before the mind and tantalizes them. 
Especially is this anxiety manifested on any noise, as the mere shut- 
ting of a door or window, particularly if the noise be unexpected. 
They are not only startled as many healthy persons would be under 
similar circumstances, but they are so frightened, that they are driven 
into a fit of trembling. You will sometimes find the intellect seriously 
impaired when Kali carb. is indicated. The patient does not seem to 
care for anything. This indifference is associated with great bodily 
exhaustion. When questioned, the patient, usually a female, does 
not seem to know exactly what to say or what she wants. The con- 
dition borders somewhat on that of Phosphoric acid, but still the apathy 
of the two remedies is not exactly the same. Kali carb. has not a sen- 
sorial apathy, but it has exhaustion too great to frame the answers 
to your questions. You will frequently find these symptoms of the 
mind calling for Kali carb. in puerperal mania and in puerperal fever. 

Again, we find that spasms may occur as a symptom of the nervous 
system under Kali carb. The patient does not lose consciousness dur- 
ing the convulsions, hence the remedy is not indicated in true epilepsy; 
but it may be indicated in puerperal eclampsia, the spasms seeming to 
pass off with eructations of wind. 

The spine suffers severely in the Kali carb. patient. In addition to 
the backache, already mentioned as the result of anaemia or of abor- 
tion, we have spinal irritation, which, by the way, is just as vague a 
symptom as is any other of a general character, as headache. You 
must always know what causes this spinal irritation. Does it come 
from loss of fluids, from brain troubles, from emotional causes, or 
what ? In the Kali carb. patient you will find it frequently occurring 



KALI CARBOXICUM. 739 

with the uterine symptoms. Thus, you will have pressure in the 
small of the back as though there were a heavy weight pushing down 
there. There are also bearing down in the uterine region during the 
menses, burning along the spine, especially along the right side of the 
spine. This is not a real congestion. It is merely a subjective sensa- 
tion caused by irritation of the posterior spinal nerves. The backache 
is worse while the patient is walking. She feels so exhausted that 
she must drop into a chair or support herself in some way. Some- 
times you find, in the morning, a pulsation in the small of the back, 
quite akin to the pulsations occurring in other parts of the body. 
Here the drug is quite analogous to Sepia and the well-known Cimici- 
fuga. This pulsating and drawing backache is particularly relieved 
when the patient lies down. This suggests a comparison between 
Kali carb. and Natrum mur. You will recognize at once the resem- 
blance in the spinal symptoms, the spinal irritation, the backache and 
the relief from lying down. Natrum ??itir. has, particularly, relief by 
lying flat on the back with firm pressure. Further than this, you will 
find these two drugs playing into each other's hands in the treatment 
of amenorrhcea. Hahnemann says that Kali carb. will bring on the 
menstrual flow when Natrum mur., though indicated, fails. 

I once cured a singular backache with Kali carb. A very nervous 
patient came under my treatment for dyspepsia. She said to me: 
' ' There is something very strange about my case. Every time I eat a 
meal I suffer for half an hour or more with most intense pain in the 
back." This was certainly an odd symptom. I did not know where 
in the materia medica to find it. I hunted, and found under Kali carb. 
this symptom: pain in the spine while eating. I gave her Kali carb., 
which cured her completely. 

On the mucous membranes, Kali carb. acts, causing quite a series of 
catarrhal symptoms. We may give it in coryza with hoarseness or loss 
of voice. The patient catches cold at every little exposure to the fresh 
air. This is a very strong symptom of Kali carb. The Kali carb. 
patient has a tendency to obesity, and is rather weak in muscular de- 
velopment. With the catarrhal symptoms of this remedy there often 
occurs a sensation in the throat as though there were a lump there 
which must be swallowed. The neck is stiff and the uvula elongated. 
There are stinging pains in the throat when swallowing just as marked 
as under Apis. 

Sometimes we have a more chronic form of catarrh in the nose ; the 



74-0 A CUNICAI, MATKRIA MKDICA. 

nasal passages are obstructed, and the patient can only breathe with 
the mouth open. This obstruction is relieved in the open air, but 
returns so soon as the patient enters a warm room. There is either a 
discharge of foetid green mucus or, in the morning, the nose is swollen 
and red, and there is a bloody discharge. There is a sticking sensa- 
tion in the pharynx, as from a fish-bone lodged there, whenever the 
patient becomes cold. This is a good symptom for Kali card. You 
will find it in Allen' s Encyclopedia in large type. 

Now, in addition to these symptoms, there is almost always accumu- 
lation of mucus in the pharynx. The patient "hawks and hems" 
in the morning. This hawking is found under every alkali, but this 
one peculiarity, sensation as of a fish-bone in the throat as soon as he 
" catches cold," with the hawki?ig, is found under no other remedy. 
Hepar, Nitric acid, Alumen, Carbo veg., and Argentum nitricum all 
have this sensation as of a splinter or fish-bone in the throat. 

In coughs, we sometimes find Kali card, of use. The cough is of a 
paroxysmal character, and is accompanied by gagging and by vomit- 
ing of sour phlegm and of food. This suggests the use of Kali carb. in 
whooping cough, in which disease it has been very successful. Boen- 
ninghausen has given us a characteristic symptom for Kali carb., 
namely, a little sac filled with water between the upper lids and eye- 
brows. You will often meet with that symptom. I would warn you not 
to confound it with a similar condition which is in no particular patho- 
logical at all, and that is a certain looseness of the tissues in this 
locality occurring in persons advanced in years. 

Now for the action of Kali carb. on the lungs. We find it indicated 
in bronchitis, pneumonia and phthisis pulmonalis. I will give you 
the symptoms calling for it in these separate states as we go on. The 
most characteristic symptom of all, and one which runs through the 
symptomatology of the drug, is stitching pains which are prominently 
located in the walls of the chest. They are made worse by any motion, 
but unlike Bryo?iia } they come at all times independently of this ag- 
gravation. They occur characteristically in the lower third of the right 
lung, going through the chest to the back. They may occur all over 
the chest, but that above mentioned is their most frequent site. Then, 
too, they are erratic and wander all over the body. Here it reminds 
you of Kali bichromicum, Pulsatilla and Sulphur. 

Kali carb. is indicated in infantile pneumonia or capillary bronchitis 
when the following symptoms are present: intense dyspnoea; although 



KALI CARBONICUM. 74I 

there is a great deal of mucus in the chest, it is raised with difficulty. 
The child is so oppressed that it can neither sleep nor drink. Breath- 
ing is wheezing and whistling in character, and the child has a choking 
cough. You should here compare Kali carb. carefully with Antimo- 
nium tartaricum and thus determine which suits the case best. One 
cannot be the remedy when the other is indicated. 

In phthisis, Kali carb. is indicated when the constitution favors it. 
The patient has a bloated alkaline look to the face. There are also 
present these well-defined stitching pains through the chest and over 
the body, with the puffiness of the upper eyelids. Cough is difficult. 
The patient cannot get up the sputum. He raises it partly, when it 
slips backwards into the pharynx. Now, if you examine this expec- 
toration, you will find that it is often bloody, and that there are little 
globules of pus scattered through it. There is an aggravation of all 
the symptoms from three to five o'clock in the morning. This hour 
of aggravation belongs to all the potash salts. There is also a very 
stubborn sensation, namely, chilliness at noon. 

Kali carb. is indicated in cardiac inflammations, in endo- and peri- 
carditis when these sharp stitching pains are characteristic. Do not 
give it too soon in the case. It is not an early remedy in cardiac dis- 
ease. It is indicated rather late when there is a deposit on the cardiac 
valves. In such a case as this Spigelia is apt to precede the exhibition 
of Kali carb. The latter follows when the sharp pains persist and 
there is the characteristic 3 A. m. aggravation. 

We find these same stitching pains under Kali carb. in lumbago, 
a very stubborn form of rheumatism. The same symptom applies in 
cases of impending miscarriage and during labor; sharp stitching pains 
in the lumbar region shooting down from the buttocks into the thighs. 

The same kind of pain suggests this remedy in nephritis from cold, 
or from a blow over the region of the kidneys. 

Lastly, in connection with the stitching pains, I want to refer you 
to its application in puerperal fever of the metritic form, that is, when 
metritis is a prominent condition. There are sharp, stabbing, cutting 
pains in the abdomen, the abdomen is bloated and distended, and the 
urine is dark and scanty, the pulse is rapid but feeble, and you have 
present the state of mind described in the early part of the lecture. 

One more symptom and we are done with the drug, and that is its 
use in dyspepsia. You will find it called for in indigestion, particu- 
larly in old persons, in those who have lost a great deal of vital fluids, 



742 A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA. 

when there is an empty, weak feeling in the stomach before eating and 
bloatedness after eating, especially after soup or coffee. There are 
sour eructations, heart-burn, and uneasy, nervous feeling when 
hungry. 

You see then that Kali carb. is a remedy indicated in a great variety 
of diseases. It is a drug much neglected in practice, for the same 
reason that many other remedies are — because the hurried and careless 
physician falls into routinism. 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



ABIES CANADENSIS 

prolapsus uteri, 146 
ABIES NIGRA 

dyspepsia, 305, 350, 370 

mental symptoms, 305 
ABROTANUM 

see Artemesia Abrotanurfi 
ABSINTHIUM, 243 

epilepsy, 420 

delirium tremens, 243 

typhoid fever, 243 
ACALYPHA INDICA 

haemoptysis, 369 

haemorrhages, 369 
ACETIC ACID 

dropsy, 104 
ACIDS 

remarks on the, 515 
ACONITIC ACID, 315, 336 
ACONITINE, 315 
ACONITUM FEROX, 314 
ACONITUM NAPELLUS, 314 

abortion, 325 

amenorrhoea, 674 

cerebral congestion, 320 

cholera infantum, 324 

colic. 287, 324 

conjunctivitis, 321, 397 

continued fever, 316 

coryza, 294, 326 

croup, 323, 505, 684 

diarrhoea, 324 

dysmenorrhoea, 325 

dysentery, 324 

episcleritis, 321 

eyes, 321, 397 

fever, 291, 316, 318 

gastric catarrh, 324 

gastric fever, 291 

gastritis, 324 

glaucoma. 321 

haemoptysis, 324 

haemorrhages, 243 

headache, 200 

heart, 225, 322, 507, 514 

hernia, 325. 

hypertrophy of the heart, 323, 508 

inflammations, 36, 99, 316 

labor, 325 

measles, 174, 326, 361 

meningitis, 294, 320, 407 

mental symptoms, 316, 321, 409 

milk fever, 325 

nephritis, 325 

nervous system, 315 



ACONITUM NAPELLUS v Continued) 

neuralgia, 321, 322 

paralysis, 315, 322, 731 

pleurisy, 293, 323. 

pleurodynia, 331 

pneumonia, 295, 323 

poisoning, 315 

pregnancy, 325 

puerperal fever, 321, 325 

pulse, 317 

scarlatina, 325 

serous membranes, 293 

skin. 326 

sunstroke, 320 

tetanus, 180 

typhoid fever, 317 

worms, 246 
ACTEA RACEMOSA, 327 

abortion, 328 

after-pains, 328 

angina pectoris, 329 

chorea, 74 

cough, 329 

dysmenorrhoea, 202, 648 

eyes, 327 

female genital organs, 143, 328, 356 

headache, 176, 328 

heart, 225 

hysteria, 76 

labor, 328 

loquacity, 39 

myalgia, 143, 327 

nervous system, 76, 143, 327 

neuralgia, 327, 356 

phthisis, 329 

pregnancy, 328 

pleurodynia, 296, 329 

puerperal mania, 328 

spinal irritation, 329, 739 

uterine diseases, 327, 356 
ACTEA SPICATA 

amenorrhoea, 674 

rheumatism, 297, 327 
AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM 

back. 606 

follicular pharyngitis, 722 

haemorrhoids, 187 
AETHUSA CYNAPIUM, 450 

awkwardness, 102 

colic, 710 

dentition, 420 

vomiting, 450, 578, 671 
AGARICUS MUSCARIUS 

blepharospasmus, 189 

chorea, 74, 79 



744 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



AGARICUS MUSCARIUS (Continued) 
delirium, 423 
eyes, 203 
loquacity, 39 
spinal irritation, 329 
torticollis, 194 
AGNUS CASTUS 
agalactia, 356 
sexual excesses, 674 
spermatorrhoea, 175 
AILANTHUS 

diphtheria, 212, 403 
erysipelas, 417 
hay fever, 557 
scarlatina, 212, 233, 403 
typhoid fever, 403 
ALCOHOL 

diphtheria, 211 
ALETRIS FARINOSA 
constipation, 359 
neurasthenia, 359 
prolapsus uteri, 146 
uterine diseases, 359 
ALLIUM CEPA 

see Cepa 
ALLIUM SATIVA 

skin, 85 
ALOE SOCOTiviNA 

alimentary canal, 478 
diarrhoea, 137, 165, 166 
dysentery, 188 
female genital organs, 478 
haemorrhoids, 137, 187, 478 

headache, 137, 187 

liver, 137 

prolapsus uteri, 137 
ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS, 168 

diarrhoea, 168 

intermittent fever, 168 
ALUMEN 

corneal opacities, 669 

haemorrhage, 537 

typhoid fever, 537 
ALUMINA, 616 

anaemia, 618 

antidotal relations, 616, 620 

aphonia, 619 

asthenopia, 619, 655 

blepharitis, 619 

blood. 618 

buboes, 620 

chlorosis, 617, 618 

complementary relations, 617 

constipation, 186, 271, 461, 617 

constitution, 617 

cough, 619 

dyspepsia, 618, 619 

eyes, 131, 619 

gastric symptoms, 619 

glands, 620 

granular lids, 619 

hypochondriasis, 618 

lead colic, 620, 621 

leucorrhoea. 618 

locomotor ataxia, 541, 618 

menses, 152, 158 
mental symptoms, 617 



ALUMINA (Continued), 
'mucous membranes, 618 
nasal catarrh, 617, 619 
nervous system, 195 
ozaena, 617 
ptosis, 131, 170, 618 
skin, 620 
spine, 541 

strabismus, 617, 618 
throat, 619, 685, 740 
ALUMINUM MET. 

locomotor ataxia, 618 
AMBRA GRISEA, 151 
asthma. 152 
constipation, 152 
cough, 151, 152, 546, 661 
epistaxis, 152 

female genital organs, 151 
insomnia, 151 
leucorrhoea, 152 
lying-in, 152 
metrorrhagia, 152 
nasal catarrh, 661 
nervous system, 151, 195, 715 
reaction, defective, 121, 151, 270, 465, 629 
softening of brain and spine, 151 
varices, 152 
vertigo, 151 
whooping cough 152 
AMBROSIA ARTEMESIAFOLIA 

hay fever, 332 
AMMONIACUM GUMMI, 4 49 
asthenopia, 449 
chest symptoms, 120 

hysteria, 116, 120 
AMMONIUM 

preparations of, 657 
AMMONIUM BENZOICUM 

urine, 66 
AMMONIUM CARB., 658 

antidotal relation, 222, 658 

asphyxia, 661 

blood, 658 

bronchitis, 660 

cerebro-spinal-meningitis, 659 

constitution, 657 

coryza, 661 

cough, 661 

emphysema, 485, 660 

heart, 601, 659 

inimical relation, 658 

menses, 65 

mucous membranes, 658 

nasal catarrh, 661 

nervous system, 79 

paralysis of the lungs, 582, 659 

pneumonia, 659 

poisoning by charcoal fumes, 659 

rhus poisoning, 222 

scarlatina, 659, 660 

sprains, 662 

scurvy, 659 

uraemia, 659 
AMMONIUM CAUST. 

aphonia. 662 

coryza, 662 

diphtheria, 211 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



745 



AMMONIUM CAUST. (Continued). 

skin,, 85 
AMMONIUM MUR., G62 

bronchitis, 664 

circulation, 662 

constitution, 657, 662 

constipation, 664 

coryza, 661, 664 

cough, 662, 664 

face, 662 

female genital organs, 663 

heels, 663 

intermittent fever, 662 

joints, 663 

leucorrhoea, 664 

liver, 187, 664 

nasal catarrh. 661 

nervous system, 662 

neuralgia, 662 

phthisis, 664 

scarlatina, 664 

sciatica, 663 

sprains, 663 

tonsillitis, 664 
AMMONIUM PHOS. 

gout, 656, 665 

joints, 656 
AMYGDALA AMARA 

diphtheria, 213, 414 

tonsillitis, 414 
AMYGDALA PERSICA, 161 
AMYL NITRITE 

See Nitrite of Amyl 
ANACARDIACEAE, 217 
ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTAL E 

erysipelas, 221 

rhus poisoning, 221 

skin, 85, 221 
ANACARDIUM ORIENT ALE, 218 

antidotal relation. 222 

anus, 165 

constipation, 219 

coryza, 221 

cough, 513 

gastralgia, 497 

gastric symptoms, 219 

haemorrhoids, 220 

headache, 219 

heart, 221 

hypochondriasis, 219 

joints, 221 

mental fatigue, 219 

mental symptoms, 218, 219, 302 

pericarditis, 221 

pregnancy, 220 

profanity, 219 

rheumatism, 231 

skin, 85. 220 

■spinal cord, 221 

suicidal tendency, 219 

torticollis, 231 

typhoid fever, 218 

variola, 218 

vomiting of pregnancy, 220 
ANGUSTURA, 180 

caries of bones, 545 

cough, 152 



ANGUSTURA (Continued). 

injuries, 180 

necrosis of lower jaw, 180 

podarthrocace, 180 

scapular pain, 282 

tetanus, 180 
ANILINE SULPHAT^, 479 
ANISUM STELLATUM 

chest pains, 83, 306 

phthisis, 83 
ANTHRACINUM 

carbuncle, 80, 22,2 561 
ANTIMONIUM ARSENICOSUM 

emphysema, 558 
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM, 577 

callosities, 332, 579 

complementary relations, 577 

diarrhoea, 578 

diphtheria, 580 

eczema, 579 

eyes, 580 

female genital organs, 580 

gastric catarrh, 351, 378, 578 

gout, 580 

heels, 663 

lungs, 627 

marasmus, 645 

mental symptoms, 219, 308, 577 

nails, 579 

nasal catarrh, 497 

ophthalmia, 217 

prolapsus uteri, 580 

skin, 86; 579, 702 

teeth, 340 

tongue, 578 

vomiting, 450, 578, 671 

wine, aggravation from, 632 
ANTIMONIUM TART., 580 

antidotal relation, 583 

asphyxia neonatorum, 582 

capillary bronchitis, 381, 581. 686 

complementary relation, 649 

cough, 270, 582, 583 

croup, 505 

eyes, 583 

headache, 581 

intestinal symptoms, 583 

laryngismus stridulus, 504 

lungs, 627 

measles, 581, 583 

mental symptoms, 581 

ophthalmia, 300 

paralysis of the lungs, 485, 582, 650 

pneumonia, 279, 283. 295, 583 

scarlatina, 581, 583 

skin, 85, 581 

suppressed eruptions, 303, 581 

variola, 303, 581, 583 

vomiting, 265, 387 

whooping cough, 581 
ANTIMONY 

remarks on preparations of, 576 
APIS MELLIFICA, 98 

albuminuria, 66 

amenorrhoea, 112 

antidotal relations, 114 

aphthous sore mouth, 47 



746 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



APIS MELLIFICA (Continued). 

apoplexy, ioo. 269 

asthenopia, 113 

asthma, no 

awkwardness, 102 

complementary relationships, 114 

conjunctivitis, 113, 217 

corneal opacities, 669 

cough, in 

cystitis, 93 

diarrhoea, 114, 166 

diphtheria, 51, 95, 107, 109, 213, 413 

dropsy, 66, 67. 102 

dysuria, 145 

erysipelas, 46, 106, 232, 417 

eyes, 113, 217 

face, 44 

female genital organs, 112, 615, 664 

fever, 317 

heart, 103, no 

hydrocephaloid, 114 

hydrocephalus, 103 

hydropericardium, no 

hydrothorax, 103 . no 

hysteria, 100, 112 

inflammation, 99 

inimical relation, 114 

intermittent fever, 70, 107 

keratitis, 383 

kidneys, 559 , 

larynx, no 

mammary abscess, 574 

meningitis, 100, 294 

mental symptoms, 99 

modalities, 114 

mode of preparation, 98 

oedema glottidis, no 

oedema pulmonum, no 

ovarian tumor, 64, 112 

ovaries, 64, 112 

ovaritis, 112 

panaritium, 114 

paralysis, 107 

pleurisy, 103, 472 

poisoning by, 99 

post-scarlatinal dropsy, 67 

prolapsus, 64, 113 

pulse, 317 

relationships, 114 

rheumatism, 107 

scarlatina, iooj 108, 109, 524, 660 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 113 

soreness, 36 

staphyloma, 113 

stomatitis. 95 

suppressed eruptions, 100 

synovitis, 103, 296, 353 

tubercular meningitis, 100, 103, 337, 470 

typhoid fever, 40, 100, 107, 108, 268, 523 

urine, 66 

urticaria, 106, 705 

uterus. 112 

variola, 107 

vertigo, 82 
APIUM VIRUS, 98 
APOCYNACEAE, 163 
APOCYNUM CANNABINUM, 163 



APOCYNUM CANNABINUM (Continued) 

ascites, 104 

diarrhoea, 164 

dropsy, 104, 163, 337 

fatty degeneration of heart, 164 

haemorrhoids, 165 

heart, in, 164 

hydrocephalus, 164 

hydrothorax, 104 

joints, 164 

rheumatism, 164 

urine, 163 
APOMORPHIA 

sea-sickness, 265 

vomiting 265, 436 
ARACEAE, '208 
ARACHNIDA, 73 
ARALIA RAC. 

asthma, 727 
ARANEA DIADEMA 

bones, 81 

constitution, 80, 81 

diarrhoea, 81 

headache, 81 

intermittent fever, 80, 373 

nervous system, 81 

toothache, 81 
ARCTIUM LAPPA 

crusta lactea, 168 

polyuria, 168 

rheumatism, 298 
ARGEMONE MEXICANA 

skin, 274 

tape worm, 274 
ARGENTUM METALLICUM, 611 

arthralgia, 509, 611 

chlorosis. 599 

debility, 611 

epilepsy, 611 

heart, 611 

joints, 611 

larynx, 611 

neuralgia, 611 

ovaries, 611, 616 

prolapsus uteri, 599, 616 
ARGENTUM NITRICUM, 605 

angina pectoris, 608 

antidotal relations, 610 

asthenopia,, 609 

asthma, 608 

blepharitis, 609 

brain, 605 

cholera infantum, 610 

chorea, 629 

conjunctivitis. 347 

diarrhoea, 166, 176, 255, 610, 643 

epilepsy, 608 

eyes, 608, 619 

female genitals, 616 

gastralgia, 607 

gastro-enteric symptoms, 554 

gonorrhoea, 91 

granular conjunctivitis, 609 

headache, 605, 606 

hemicrania, 606 

kidneys, 610 

larynx, 609 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



747 



ARGENTUM XITRICUM (Continued). 

locomotor ataxia, 606 

marasmus, 272^ 534 

mental symptoms, 605 

mouth, 609 

nephralgia, 610 

nervous system, 606 

neurasthenia, 541 

ophthalmia, 217, 347 

ophthalmia neonatorum, 347, 608 

ovaries, 605 

paralysis, 606 

poisoning by, 600 

prosopalgia, 607 

puerperal convulsions, 608 

purulent ophthalmia, 608 

renal calculi, 610 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 702 

spinal cord, 605, 620 

throat, 609, 619, 685, 740 

urinary organs, 91 

urine, 610 

uterus, 615 

vertigo, 605 

vomiting, 607 
ARNICA MONTANA, 237 

abscess, 242 

antidotal relations, 658 

apoplexy, 242, 269 

apoplexy of retina, 43 

asphyxia from charcoal, 158, 273, 659 

bed sores, 242 

bloodvessels, 238 

boils, 242 

cholera infantum, 22, 242 

conjunctivitis, 397 

cough, 152, 732 

diarrhoea, 242 

dysentery, 242 

dyspepsia, 242 

ecchymoses of the sclerotic, 190 

enteritis, 60 

female genital organs, 664 

gout, 369 

hypertrophy of heart, 225, 239, 323, 507 

hemiplegia, 242 

injuries, 239, 532 

lying-in, 242 

muscular exertion, 229, 239 

myalgia, 240 

peritonitis, 60 

pleurodynia, 296 

pyaemia, 241 

relationship, 237 

retinal apoplexy, 43 

rheumatism, 240 

skin, 242 

sprains, 229, 238, 654, 662 

soreness, 239 

testicles, 352 

typhoid fever, 40, 228, 239, 336, 402, 527 
659 

urine, 66 

vertigo, 82 

whooping cough, 242 
ARNICIN, 238 
ARSENICUM ALBUM, 549 



ARSENICUM ALBUM (Continued) 
abdomen, 488 
albuminuria, 67, 559 
angina pectoris, 559 
antidotal relations, 372, 541 
aortitis, 486 

aphthous sore mouth, 47 
asthma, 381, 558, 727 
bladder, 271 
blood, 552 
boils, 561 

Bright's disease, 559 
burns, 97 
cancer, 552, 561 
carbuncle, 232, 552, 561 
catarrhs, 380, 557 
cholera Asiatica, 156, 553 
cholera infantum, 553 
cholera morbus, 156, 553 
chorea, 79 
collapse, 69 

complementary relations, 549 
conjunctivitis, 113, 397 
continued fever, 316, 557 
convulsions, 44 
coryza, 380, 557 
cough, in, 152 
croup, 560 
debility, 367, 369 
delirium tremens, 269, 551 
diarrhoea, 55, 166, 370, 553, 642 
diphtheria, no. 213, 558 
dropsy, 66, 104, 164, 337, 445, 558 
drunkards, complaints of, 55, 187 
dysentery, 488, 553 
dyspepsia, 54, 55, 185, 350, 351, 487 
eczema, 559 
endocarditis, 558 
enteritis, 553 
epilepsy, 561 
eyes, 397 
face, 44 

fatty degeneration of the heart, 572 
fever, 320, 467, 556 
fever blisters, 705 
gangrena oris, 47 
gangrene, 156, 552, 560 
gastric catarrh, 378, 379 
gastric symptoms, 54, 55, 350, 378, 487 
gastritis, 54, 185, 324, 553 
general action, 551 
haemorrhages, 482 
haemorrhoids, 487, 551 
hay fever, 332, 557 
headache, 701 

heart, 111, 164, 239, 514, 558 
hectic fever, 373 
hemicrania, 129, 561 
herpes zoster, 332 
hiccough, 203 
hydrocephaloid, 102 
hydropericardium, 111. 559 
hydrothorax, 559 
hypertrophy of the heart, 239 
hysteria, 614 

inflammation of the brain, 94 
inflammations, 96, 552 



74 8 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



ARESNICUM ALBUM (Continued) 

intermittent fever, 69, 372, 555 

jaundice, 187 

kidneys, 67, 559 

laryngismus stridulus, 504 

lead colic, 621 

lungs, 374 

marasmus, 553 

meningitis, 102 

menorrhagia, 482 

mental symptoms, 443, 551, 612 

metrorrhagia, 65, 482 

mucous membranes, 557 

mumps, 245 

muscular exertion, 230, 521 

nervous system, 79 

neuralgia, 467, 555 
. oesophagitis, 414 

ovaries, 65 

ovaritis, 552 

pericarditis, 558 

phlyctenular ophthalmia, 397 

poisoning by, 550 

prosopalgia, 614 

psoriasis, 707 

puerperal mania. 328 

retention of urine, 271 

scarlatina, 528, 558, 560 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 494, 495, 702 

skin, 559 

syncope, 37 

throat, 95, 596 

tongue, 333, 553, 698 

tuberculosis, 552 

typhoid fever, 227, 252, 430, 467, 537, 552, 
555 

ulcers, 62, 63, 156, 445, 561 

uraemia, 94 

urine, 66 

urticaria, 107, 560 

vertigo, 37, 82 

vomiting, 565, 672 

wine, aggravation from, 632 
ARSENICUM IODATUM 

cancer, 561 

coryza, 557 

crusta lactea. 168 

diphtheria, 558 

hay fever, 557 

psoriasis, 125, 707 

throat, 596 
ARSENICUM MET. 

tongue, 454 
ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM, 244 

haemorrhoids, 245 

marasmus, 245 

mumps, 245 

myelitis, 244 
rheumatism, 245 
stomach, 341 
ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA, 237 

biliousness, 244 
ARTEMISIA VULGARIS, 242 
asthenopia, 243 
convulsions, 624 
emotions, 242 
epilepsy, 30, 242, 420, 676 



ARTEMISIA VULGARIS (Continued), 
eyes, 243 
worms, 624 
ARTICULATA, 31 
ARUM MACULATUM 

skin, 85 
ARUM TRIPHYLLUM, 208 
aphonia, 210, 462 
diphtheria, 233, 444, 535 
inflammation of the brain, 210 
larynx, 210 
mental symptoms, 209 
nasal catarrh, 498 
scarlatina, 208, 233, 535 
skin, 85 

sore mouth, 711 
throat, 95, 209 
uraemia, 209 
ARUNDO MAUR. 

catarrh, 661 
ASAFOETIDA, 449 

antidotal relations, 450, 587 
bones, 119, 450, 545 
eyes, 450 

hysteria, 119, 120, 198. 449 
iritis, 450, 602 

nervous system, 79, 119, 120, 449 
periostitis, 450 
reaction, lack of, 121 
syphilis, 602 

ulcers, 62, 119, 450, 545, 602 
ASARUM EUROPAEUM 

nervous symptoms, 7g, 195 
ASCLEPIAS TUB. 
pleurodynia, 296 
ASPARAGUS - 

heart 111 
ATROPINE, 405 
AURUM METALLICUM, 600 
albuminuria, 603 
antidotal relations, 586, 600 
bones, 604 
cervix uteri, 139 
cirrhosis of the liver, 36, 603 
congestions, 599 
congestion of the head, 601 
congestion of the liver, 603 
diplopia, 601 
ears, 43, 491, 602 
eyes, 601 
face, 599 

fatty degeneration of the liver, 603 
female genital organs, 603, 615 
general action, 139 
glaucoma, 601 
heart, 600, 656 
hemiopia, 601, 702 
hyperaemia, 599 

hypertrophy of the heart, 323, 601 
iritis, 450, 601 
kidneys, 559, 603 
lungs, 603 

mastoid process, caries of, 435. 49*> 602 
mental symptoms, 139, 603 
nasal catarrh, 602 
orchitis, 603 
otorrhoea, 602 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



749 



AURUM METALLICUM (Continued) 

ozaena, 49, 602 

pannus, 601 

prolapsus uteri, 139, 603, 613 

retinal congestion, 602 

scrofulous, 599 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 599, 601 

swelling of, 43 

syphilis, 601, 602 

testicles, 352 

throat, 602 

uterus, 139, 603, 615 
AURUM MURIATICUM 

cervix uteri, 139 

AURUM ' MURIATICUM NATRONATUM 
cervix uteri, 139 
prolapsus uteri, 603 

BADIAGA 

buboes, 31, 490 

enlarged lymphatics, 31 

heart 31 

syphilis, 491 
BALSAM OF PERU 

bronchitis, 215 

lungs, 627 

phthisis, 627 
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA, 398 

aphthae, 47 

diphtheria, 212, 403 

dysentery, 403 

enteritis, 59 

face, 44 

mental symptoms, 398, 437 

peritonitis, 59 

phthisis, 403 

relationships, 403 

scarlatina, 212 

typhoid fever, 40, 228, 239, 272, 399, 467, 
523 
BARYTA CARBONICA, 649 

amblyopia, 652 

aneurism, 650 

apoplexy, 268, 650 

asthma, 652 

brain, 651 

capillary bronchitis, 582 

cataract, 575 

complementary relations, 582, 649 

constitution, 649 

cough, 652 

drunkards, 268, 650 

cretinism, 679 

ears, 652 

enlarged tonsils, 651 

fatty tumors, 652 

glossoplegia, 650 

headache, 652 

herpes circinatus, 125, 705 

mental symptoms, 650, 679 

multiple sclerosis of brain and spinal cord, 
650 

ophthalmia, scrofulous, 652 

paralysis, 650, 731 

paralysis of the lungs, 650 

poisoning by, 649 



BARYTA CARBONICA (Continued). 

post-nasal catarrh, 652, 656 

scrofulosis, 649, 652 

senility, 649 

sweat, 653 

tabes mesenterica, 652 

throat, 651 

tonsillitis, 651 
BARYTA MURIATICA 

brain, 650 

multiple sclerosis of brain and spinal cord, 
650 
BELLADONNA, 405 

abscess, 419, 592 

amenorrhoea, 674 

antidotal relations, 516, 600, 628 

apoplexy, 268, 269 

asthenopia, 449 

anus, 60 

biliary calculi, 192 

blepharospasm, 189 

boils, 419 

brain, 235, 320, 335, 407 

cancer, 561 

cholera infantum, 411, 419 

chorea, 77 

climaxis, 233 

colic, 419, 621 

coma, 409 

complementary relations, 406, 419, 422 

congestions, 407, 591 

conjunctivitis, 412 

convulsions, 201, 408, 420 

coryza, 326 

cough, in, 421, 570 

delirium, 355, 429 

dentition, 249 

diarrhoea, 419 

diphtheria, 214, 413 

dysentery, 419 

enteritis, 59, 419 

enuresis, 416, 734 

epilepsy, 420 

erysipelas, 45, 106, 407, 416 

erythema, 416 

eyes, 397, 412, 449 

face, 44, 409, 411 

female genital organs, 420, 615 

fever, 292, 319, 409 

gastralgia, 414 

gastric symptoms, 350, 414 

general character, 406 

glands, 233 

haemorrhage, 368, 421 

headache, 82, 27 7, 408, 411 

heart, 11 1 

hemicrania, 128 

hydrophobia, 94 

hysteria, 77, 199 

inflammation, 99, 407, 591 

labor, 421 

laryngismus stridulus, 504 

lead colic, 621 

lungs, 627 

mammary abscess, 301, 419, 569 

measles, 174 

meningitis, 94, 101, 105, 294, 407, 409, 591 



75° 



INDKX OF RKMKDIKS. 



BELLADONNA (Continued) 

mental symptoms, 218, 294, 682 

menses, 421, 613 

metritis. 415 

metrorrhagia, 272, 421 

nervous system, 408 

neuralgia, 419, 613, 682 

oesophagitis, 414 

otalgia, 683, 708 

otitis media, 348, 411 

parotitis, 412 

peritonitis, 59, 415 

poisoning by, 405 

puerperal convulsions, 420 

puerperal metritis, 415 

puerperal peritonitis, 415 

pulse, 317 

pupil, 405 

quinsy, 414 

retinal congestion, 602 

rectum and anus, 60 

relationships, 419, 422 

renal colic, 191 

rheumatism, 407, 422 

scarlatina, 71, 100, 109, 233, 302, 417, 
443, 634, 660 

sciatica, 419 

scleritis, 412 

skin, 416 

sleep, 109, 454 

soreness, 36 

speech, 591 

sphincters, 406 

strabismus, 617 

sunstroke, 38, 320 

temperament, 406 

tetanus, 181 

throat, 95, 173, 412, 596 

tonsillitis, 414, 592 

torticollis, 194, 422 

typhlitis, 59 

typhoid fever, 292, 410 

urine, 416 

vomiting, 266, 417 
BENZOIC ACID 

dysuria, 711 

enuresis, 247 

gout, 453, 656 

heart, 656 

joints, 656 

rheumatism, 453 

urine, 66, 534 
BERBERIDACEAE, 451 
BERBERINE 451 
BERBERIS VULGARIS, 451 

alkaloids of, 151 

backache, 361 

biliary calculi, 192, 452 

eyes, 619 

female genitals, 452 

fistula in ano, 452 

gout, 453 

joints. 453 

kidneys, 93, 451 

leucorrhoea, 452 

liver, 299, 452 

menses, 452 



BERBERIS VULG. (Continued) 

metritis, 452 

peritonitis, 452 

renal colic, 93, 192 

rheumatism, 453 

stools, 452 

urinary organs, 93, 452 

urine, 452 
BISMUTH 

gastralgia, 185, 415, 608 

vomiting, 565 
BLATTA, 32 

dropsy, 32 
BOMBUS, 98 
BORAX VENETA, 708 

aphthous stomatitis, 710 

colic, 710 

constitution, 708 

cough, 710 

diarrhoea, 710 

dysuria, 711 

erysipelas, 711 

eyes, 710 

leucorrhoea, 710 

lungs, 710 

mucous membranes, 710 

nervous system, 708 

nose, 710 

otalgia, 708 

otorrhoea, 708 

phthisis, 711 

skin, 711 

throat, 710 

trichiasis, 710 

ulcers 125, 711 
BOTHROPS LANCIOLATUS 

aphasia, 33 
BO VISTA, 157 

asphyxia, 158, 273, 659 

awkwardness, 102 

circulation, 157 

colic, 287 

epistaxis, 157 

headache, 158 

heart, 158 

herpes, 157 

menses, 158 

mental symptoms, 102 

metrorrhagia, 157 

oedema, 159 

speech, 425 

wine, aggravation from, 632 

urticaria, 107 
BROMINE, 502 

asthma, 507 

brain, 502 

cancer, 503 

conjunctivitis, 507 

coryza, 504 

croup, 504, 684 

dentition, 504 

epistaxis, 502, 507 

glands, 503 

goitre, 503 

headache, 504 

hypertrophy of the heart, 225, 239, 507 

laryngismus stridulus, 504 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



751 



BROMINE (Continued). 

mammae, 503 

mental symptoms, 502 

mucous membranes, 503 

nasal catarrh, 504 

pneumonia, 507 

scrofulous, 503 

testicles, 503 

thymus, 504 

tonsillitis, 503 

tuberculosis, 507 

ulcers, 510 

vertigo, 502 
BRUCIA, 177 

BRUCIA ANTTDYSENTERICA, 180 
BRYONIA ALBA, 289 

alimentary canal, 298 

antidotal relations, 303, 617 

blood, 289 

bronchitis, 296, 570 

complementary relations, 303, 617 

constipation, 186, 271, 298, 461, 617, 

coryza, 294 

cough, in, 296, 693, 703 

diarrhoea, 114, 299, 453, 474, 724 

dyspepsia, 298 

epistaxis, 291 

eyes, 300 

face, 246 

female genital organs, 301 

fever, 289, 317 

gastric catarrh, 378, 578 

gastric fever, 290 

gastro-enteric symptoms, 248 

glaucoma, 300 

headache, 40, 82, 289, 300, 701 

heart, 298 

hypochondriasis, 618 

intermittent fever, 229 

jaundice, 187, 299 

joints, 453 

liver, 207, 282, 298 

mammary abscess, 301 

measles, 302 

meningitis, 101, 105, 294, 407 

menses, 301 

mental symptoms, 299, 619 

milk fever, 301 

nasal cararrh, 294 

ophthalmia, 300 

peritonitis, 293 

pleurisy, 293, 295 

pleurodynia, 295, 570 

pneumonia, 295, 323 

rheumatism, 297, 353 

scarlatina, 302, 418 

serous membranes, 293 

sore mouth, 301, 710 

suppressed eruptions, 101, 294, 302 

sweat, 300 

synovitis, 103, 296, 353 

tongue, 568, 578 

toothache, 300 

torticollis, 422 

typhilitis, 59 

typhoid fever, 261, 290, 523 

whooping cough, 296 



686 



BRYONIA ALBA (Continued) 

urine, 301 
BUFO 

epilepsy, 30, 547, 676 
face, 44 
peritonitis, 30 
skin, 30 
ulcers, 30, 63 

CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS 

asthma, 633 

diaphragmitis, 331 

haemoptysis, 324 

heart, 225, 239 

hypertrophy of the heart, 239, 323 

neuralgia, 419, 555 

uterus, 133 
CADMIUM SULPH. 

asthma, 633 

indigestion, 55 

vomiting, 554 

yellow fever, 555 
CAFFEINE 

general action, 383 
CALADIUM SEGUINUM 

asthma, 214 

masturbation, 247 

nymphomania, 613 

seminual emissions, 175, 215 

sexual excesses. 175, 339 

spermatorrhoea, 175, 215 

worms, 247 
CAJUPUTUM, 203 
CALCAREA ACETICA 

vomiting, 450 
CALCAREA CAUSTICA 

skin, 85 
CALCAREA FLUORICA 

bones, 519 

lumbago, 677 

osteoma, 519, 666 
CALCAREA HYPOPHOSPHORICA, 667 

debility, 738 
CALCAREA IOD. 

enlarged tonsils, 651 
CALCAREA OSTREARUM, 668 

amenorrhoea, 673 

bones, 676 

cataract, 575 

cholera infantum, 671 

complementary relations, 672 

conjunctivitis, 235 

constitution, 493, 668, 677 

corneal opacity, 669 

corneal ulcers, 669 

convulsions, 669 

cough, 421 

delirium, 269 

delirium tremens, 269, 675 

dentition, 669 

diarrhoea, 671, 687 

eczema, 670 

enuresis, 416, 734 

epilepsy, 676, 734 

epistaxis, 671 

face, 668 

female genital organs, 145, 673 

gastric symptoms, 415 



752 



INDEX OF RKMEDIKS. 



CALCAREA OSTREARUM (Continued) 

glands, 671 

gout, 453, 656, 677 

headache, 701 

herpes circinatus, 125 

hip-joint disease, 676 

hydrocephalus, 672 

hysteria, 614 

insomnia, 675 

joints, 652, 676 

leucorrhoea, 674 

lumbago, 677 

lungs, 627, 673 

marasmus, 569, 645 

meningitis, 409 

menorrhagia, 673 

menses, 672, 673 

mental symptoms, 293, 617 

nasal catarrh, 498, 671 

nervous system, 195, 675 

neurasthenia, 624 

opacities of the cornea, 669 

otitis externa, 670 

otitis media, 670 

otorrhoea, 670 

parotitis, 443 

phthisis, 536, 673 

polypi, 570 

post-nasal catarrh, 656 

prolapsus uteri, 145 

puerperal mania, 328 

rheumatism, 453, 656, 677 

scarlatina, 233, 418, 635 

scrofulosis, 494, 495, 545, 591, 669 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 494, 495, 669 

seminal emissions, 175, 192 

sexual excesses, 192, 339, 477, 674 

sprains, 229 

stomach, 132 

sweat, 663 

temperament, 406 

throat, 498 

tonsillitis, 651 

tuberculosis, 470, 672 

typhoid fever, 293, 442, 675 

ulcers, 534 

ulcers of cornea, 669 

urine, 453 

urticaria, 107, 667, 705 

vomiting, 450, 671 
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA, 678 

bones, 241, 680 

chlorosis, 680 

cholera infantum, 380, 679 

complementary relations, 678 

constitution, 678 

cretinism, 679 

diarrhoea, 672 

female genital organs, 145, 679 

fistula in ano, 452 
fractures, 241, 680 

hydrocephaloid, 367, 380, 636, 680 

joints, 679, 680 
laryngismus stridulus, 504 

leucorrhoea, 145 
lungs, 627, 673 
marasmus, 680 



CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA (Continued). 

polypi, 570 

prolapsus uteri, 145, 146, 625 

rachitis, 679 

rheumatism, 679 

tabes mesenterica, 653 

tonsillitis, 651 

tuberculosis, 670 
CALCAREA SULPHURICA 

boils, 667 

croup, 667 
CALENDULA 

injuries, 241 
CALTHA 

pemphigus, 87 

skin, 85 
CAMPHOR 

antidotal relations, 116, 481, 658 

cholera Asiatica, 156, 256, 484, 629 

cholera morbus, 156, 380 

convulsions, 45, 94 

collapse, 69, 484, 629 

diphtheria, 481 

epistaxis, 481 

erysipelas, 86 

face, 44, 45 

inflammation, 94 

inflammation of the brain, 94 

intermittent fever, 69 

reaction, defective, 121 

scarlatina, 635 

seminal emissions, 175 

skin, 85, 86 

strangury, 93 

sexual mania, 94 

sunstroke, 38 

syncope, 37, 38 

tetanus, 183 

urinary organs, 93 

vertigo, 37 
CANCHALAGUA 

intermittent fever, 372 
CANNABIS INDICA 

backache, 361 

chordee, 90 

delirium tremens, 269 

gonorrhoea, 90 

headache, 90 

kidneys, 90 

mental symptoms, 89, 269 

paralysis, 322 

uraemia, 90 

urinary organs, 90 
CANNABIS SATIVA 

chordee, 89 

gonorrhoea, 89 

leucorrhoea, 674 

nephritis, 89 
CANTHARIS, 84 

alimentary canal, 95 

antidotal relations, 93 

bladder, 88 

brain, 93 

Bright's disease, 88 

burns, 97 

chordee, 96 

cystitis, 88, 89, 351 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



753 



CANTHARIS (Continued) 

diphtheria, 95, 435 

dysentery, 95, 253 

dysuria, 711 

eclampsia, 94, 

erysipelas, 97, 106 

female genital organs, 97 

gastritis, 95 

genital organs, 96 

gonorrhoea, 96 

gravel, 89 

haematuria, 89 

hydrophobia, 94 

inflammation of the brain, 93 

labor, 97 

mucous membranes, 94 

nephritis, 88 

nymphomania, 97 

pemphigus, 87 

penis, irritation of glans, 88 

priapism, 96 

renal colic, 88, 191 

retained placenta, 97, 355 

skin, 84 

throat, 95 

uraemia, 94 

urethritis, 88 

urinary organs, 87 

urine, 306 
CANTHARIS STRYGOSA 

skin, 84 
CAPSICUM, 434 

asthma, 435 

bronchitis, 374, 546 

diphtheria, 435, 524 

dyspepsia, 434 

dysentery, 96, 435 

dysuria, 434 

ears, 43, 435, 49* 

elongation of the uvula, 435 

general action, 434 

gonorrhoea, 91 

home sickness, 435, 528 

intermittent fever, 201, 372, 435 

mastoiditis, 43, 435, 602 

modalities, 231, 434 

neuralgia, 614 

reaction, defective, 150, 629 

skin, 85, 86, 404 

throat, 95, 435. 596 

vesicle irritability, 92 
CARBO ANIMALIS, 489 

acne, 141 

ankle-joint, 676 

brain, 235 

bronchitis, 490 

buboes, 31, 489 

cancer, 490 

cervix uteri, 140 

constitution, 489 

cough, 490 

deafness, 491 

debility, 489, 490 

ears, 491 

eyes, 491 

female genital organs, 140 

gastric symptoms, 490, 496 

4-S 



CARBO ANIMALIS (Continued) 
glands, 489, 503 
gonorrhoea, 489 
haemorrhoids, 490 
headache, 141, 354 
heart, 134, 499 

lactation, 165, 490 
menses, 140 

otorrhoea, 491 

phthisis, 490 

pneumonia, 490 

relationships, 489 

stomach, 132, 166, 490 

syphilis, 489, 491 

uterus 490 
CARBO VEG., 481 

abscess, 483 

antidotal relationships, 481 

aortitis, 486 

aphonia, 210, 462, 484, 733 

aphthous sore mouth, 47 

asthma, 191, 485 

blood, 481 

boils, 483 

bronchorrhagia, 481 

cancer, 483 

carbuncle, 232, 483, 561 

catarrhs, 484, 662 

cholera, 156, 380, 484 

collapse, 156, 373, 484, 566 

complementary relations, 481 

constipation, 186, 486 

constitution, 481 

cough, 112, 491 

deafness, 491 

debility, 481, 491 

diphtheria, 481 

dysentery, 488 

dyspepsia, 56, 185, 486, 532 

ears, 491, 498 

emphysema, 485 

epistaxis, 157, 481 

eyes, 492 

face, 44 

female genital organs, 141 

fever, 483 

gangrene, 483 

gastric symptoms, 56, 350, 486 

gastro-enteric symptoms, 554 

glands, 484 

haemoptysis, 481 

haemorrhages, 157, 368, 481 

haemorrhoids, 57, 486 

headache, 300, 486 

hectic fever, 373, 483 

hernia, 56 

hip-joint disease, 483 

inimical relations, 481 

intermittent fever, 68, 372, 483 

leucorrhoea, 141 

menorrhagia, 482 

menses, 141 

metrorrhagia, 482 

mumps, 245 

otorrhoea, 491 

paralysis of the lungs, 485, 582 

reaction, defective, 150, 270, 465, 629 



754 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



CARBO VZG. (Continued) 

sweat, 653 

syphilis, 491 

throat, 740 

tympanites, 253, 261, 271, 487 

typhoid fever, 228, 253, 261, 483, 566 

ulcers, 63, 482 

urine, 66 

varicose veins, 141, 441, 482 

vertebral caries, 483 

yellow fever, 483 

wine, aggravation from, 632 
CARBOLIC ACID 

diphtheria, 721 

headache, 581 

skin, 85 

urine, 66 
CARBON BISULPHIDE, 480 

Meniere's disease, 733 
CARBONEUM OXYGENISATUM 

herpes zoster, 87 

pemphigus, 87 

skin, 87 
CARBONIC OXIDE, 497, 480 
CARBONS 

general characteristics of, 479 
CARDUUS MARIANUS 

jaundice, 187 

liver, 187 
CASCARILLA 

abdominal symptoms, 312 

constipation, 312, 497 

haemorrhage, 312 

haemorrhoids, 312 
CASTOR EQUI 

sore nipples, 28 
CASTOREUM, 27 

amenorrhoea, 117 

colic, 117 

convalescence, tardy, 117 

diarrhoea, 117 

menses, 121 

nervous system, 117, 195 

reaction defective, 121, 465 

typhoid fever, 27, 117 
CAULOPHYLLUM 

after pains, 356 

dysmenorrhoea, 176, 648 

labor, 357 

leucorrhoea, 674 

pregnancy, 357 

prolapsus uteri, 146 

rheumatism, 297 
CAUSTICUM, 729 

agalactia, 356, 734 

anger, effects of, 286 

ankle-joint, 698 

anus, 60 

aphonia, 462, 485, 732 

apoplexy, 731 

bladder, 271 

brain, 651 

catarrh, 662 

chorea, 77, 734 

colic, 735 

constitution, 729 

cough, 421, 703, 732 



CAUSTICUM (Continued) 
dysmenorrhoea, 735 

ears, 733 

enuresis, 416, 734 

epilepsy, 734 

gout, 288 

headache, 702, 724 

heels, 663 

inimical relations, 481, 729 

locomotor ataxia, 730 

Meniere's disease, 733 

menses, 735 

mental symptoms, 126, 288, 729 

nature of, 729 

nervous system, 77 

paralysis, 322, 650, 729, 730 

paralysis of tongue, 731 

pemphigus, 87 

ptosis, 170, 235, 398, 731 

rectum and anus, 60 
. retention of urine, 271, 735 

rheumatism, 288, 735 

scabies, 476 

scrofulosis, 731 

skin, 87, 702, 735 

tongue, 731 

torticollis, 194 

urine, 737 

vertigo, 730 

warts, 735 
CEDRON 

ciliary neuralgia, 206 

intermittent fever, 80 

neuralgia, 288, 328, 374, 555 
CEPA 

antidotal relations, 380 

complementary relations, 555 

coryza, 380, 398 

cough, 421 

flatulence, 445 

neuralgia after amputations, 241, 663 

ulceration of heel, 663 
CHAMOMILLA, 248 

abortion, 250 

after-pains, 356 

anger, effects of, 286, 339 

antidotal relations, 616, 644 

biliousness, 249, 2qc\ 

colic, 339 

convulsions, 201 

coryza, 249 

cough, in, 249 

dentition, 249 

diarrhoea, 243, 342, 645 

dysmenorrhoea, 202, 263 

emotions, 248 

face, 248 

gastric symptoms, 249 

insomnia, 248 

jaundice, 187, 248 

labor, 250 

lungs, 627 

menses, 263, 613 

mental symptoms, 248, 288, 344 

nervous system, 248 

neuralgia, 288, 644 

otalgia, 349, 384, 683, 708 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



755 



CHAMOMILLA (Continued) 

relationships, 250 

rheumatism, 249. 353 

skin, 688 

sweat, 566 

teeth, 340, 645 

temperament. 248 
CHELIDONIUM, 281 

capillary bronchitis, 283 

gastralgia, 497 

jaundice, 207 

liver, 207, 281, 299 

mental symptoms, 281 

neuralgia, 282 

relationships, 281 

pneumonia, 282, 295 

scapular pains, 281 

skin, 85 

vertigo, 82 
CHENOPODIUM 

liver, 282 

scapular pains, 282 
CHIMAPHILA 

bladder, 27, 92 

follicular pharyngitis, 722 

skin, 85 
CHININUM ARSEXICOSUM 

gastralgia, 415 
CHININUM SULPH., 365 

blood, 365 

enlarged spleen, 80, 365 

infusoria, 365 

intermittent fever, 80, 371, 467 

neuralgia, 467, 555 

pemphigus, 87 

reflex action, 365 

rheumatism, 374 

skin, 85, 87, 363 

tissue waste, 365 
CHLORAL 

skin, 85, 87 
CHLORIDE OF GOLD AXD PLATINUM 

caries and necrosis, 341 
CHLORINE, 511 

antidotal relations, 511 

aphthous sore mouth, 511 

catarrh, 511 

coryza, 511 

impotence, 511 

laryngismus stridulus, 504 

nervous system, 511 

scurvy, 511 

typhoid fever. 511 
CHOLOS TERRAPINAE 

cramps in muscles, 288 
CHROMIC ACID 

ulcers, 723 
CICUTA VIROSA 

cancer, 451 

convulsions, 44, 182, 451 

epilepsy, 182, 428, 451 

face, 44, 45 

injuries, 451 

nervous system, 79 

puerperal convulsions, 451 

skin, 451, 677 

tetanus, 178, 181, 182, 537 
worms, 451 



CICUTINA, 181 
CICUTOXINE, 182 
CIMEX LECTULARIUS 

cough, 152 

intermittent fever, 32 
CINA, 246 

asthenopia, 247 

bladder, 247 

convulsions, 246, 629 

dentition, 420 

enuresis, 247 

eyes, 247, 619 

face, 246 

intermittent fever, 247 

modalities, 247 

strabismus, 246, 617 

temperament, 247 

whooping cough, 247, 382 

worms, 246, 624 
CINCHONA, 363 

abdominal symptoms, 488 

abscesses, 484 

alkaloids of, 365 

anaemia, 366 

antidotal relations, 372, 375, 551, 586 

asthenopia, 369 

biliary calculi, 192 

bowels, 370 

brain, 235 

cholera infantum, 366, 380 

colic, 272 

complementary relations, 555 

coryza, 295, 326 

debility, 367, 487 

diarrhoea, 53, 166, 370, 429, 488, 642 

dysentery, 53, 488 

dyspepsia, 53, 350, 369, 487 

enlarged spleen, 80 

face, 44 

gastric symptoms, 370, 553 

haemorrhages, 293, 367, 482, 643 

headache, 40, 369, 701 

hectic fever, 373 

hydrocephaloid, 366, 380, 680 

inimical relationships, 375, 462 

intermittent fever, 80, 229, 371 

jaundice, 374 

lungs, 374 

malarial neuralgia, 374 

marasmus, 554, 680 

Meniere's disease, 733 

mental symptoms, 293, 369 

nervous symptoms, 369 

neuralgia, 369. 374 

poisoning from, 366 

reaction, defective, 121, 150 

retained placenta, 368 

rheumatism, 374 

seminal emissions, 367, 529 

tympanites, 252, 261, 370, 4 8 7 

typhoid fever, 252, 556 

ulcers, 63 
CINNABARIS 

condylomata, 311 

eyes, 394 

nasal catarrh, 595 

scarlatina, 95, 596 



756 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



CINNABARIS (Continued) 
skin, 311 
sycosis, 311 
syphilis, 311, 595 
throat, 95, 595 
CINNAMON 

haemorrhage, 369 
CISTUS CANAD., 463 

nasal catarrh, 656 
CITRIC ACID, 516 
CITRULLUS, 285 
CLEMATIS CRISPA, 86, 314 
CLEMATIS ERECT A 
cancer, 561 
cystitis, 90 
gonorrhoea, 91 
orchitis, 352 
skin, 85, 86, 560 
urethra, 86, 90 
CLEMATIS VIORNA 

skin, 314 
COBALT 

backache, 193, 361, 636 
seminal emissions, 193 
spinal irritation, 303, 636 
COCA 

muscular fatigue, 521 
reaction, defective, 121 
COCCULUS INDICUS, 259 
anus, 60 

cerebro-spinal meningitis, 263 
convulsions, 262 
debility, 260, 624 
dysmenorrhoea, 202, 263 
general action, 259 
headache, 262, 354 
hernia, 189 
hysteria, 199 
menses, 262 
mental symptoms, 199 
nervous system, 195, 259 
neurasthenia, 624, 
paralysis, 315, 624 
rectum and anus, 60, 61 
sleeplessness, 361 
spinal cord, 260 
spinal irritation, 330 
stomach, 132 
tympanites, 252 
typhoid fever, 260 
COCCUS CACTI 
phthisis, 627 
whooping cough, 32, 627 
COCHLEARIA ARMORACEA 
skin, 85 

urinary organs, 92 
CODEIN ' 

muscular twitchings, 265 
• phthisis, 265 
COFFEA ARABICUM, 383 
alkaloids of, 383 
apoplectic congestion, 384 
circulation, 385 
diarrhoea, 385 
fatigue, 385 
general action, 383 
heart, 31 



COFFEA ARABICUM (Continued) 
mental symptoms, 322, 384 
skin, 384 

reaction, defective, 121 
special senses, 385 
teeth, 340 
toothache, 301, 384 
COLCHICUM AUTUMN ALE, 251 
abdominal symptoms, 253 
antidotal relations, 254 
Bright's disease, 254 
cholera, 59, 253 
convulsions, 59 
debility, 251 
dentition, 420 
diarrhoea, 59 
dropsy, 67, 254 
dysentery, 96, 253 
gastric symptoms, 58, 350 
gastritis, 324 
glossoplegia, 650 
gout, 253, 353 
heart, 254, 298 
hydrothorax, 254 
indigestion, 58 
paralysis, 731 
pericarditis, 254 
peritonitis, 60 
prosopalgia, 322 
rheumatism, 231, 232, 253, 298 
tympanites, 251, 261, 271, 370 
typhoid fever, 251, 271, 556 
urine, 66 
COLEOPTERA, 32 
COLLINSONIA 

constipation, 188 

haemorrhoids, 188 

neurasthenia, 624 

paralysis, 624 

prolapsus uteri, 188 
COLOCYNTH, 285 

abdomen, 286 

antidotal relation, 288 

arthritic ophthalmia, 288, 341 

bladder, 287 

ciliary neuralgia, 288 

colic, 285, 324, 339, 419, 644 

constipation, 195 

cramps of muscles, 288 

diarrhoea, 248, 285, 644 

dysentery, 96, 286, 287 

dysmenorrhoea, 286, 287 

enteritis, 285 

glaucoma, 287 

gout, 287 

headache, 287 

hip disease, 288 

iritis, 287 

lead colic, 621 

mental symptoms, 288 

neuralgia, 285 

ovarian tumor, 285, 510 

paraphimosis, 288, 394 

rheumatism, 288, 735 

sciatica, 288 
COMOCLADIA DENTATA 

erysipelas, 217 



INDKX OF REMEDIES. 



757 



COMOCLADIA DENTATA (Continued) 

eyes, 217 

skin, 217 
COMPOSITAE, 237 
CONCHIOLIN 

osteitis, 680 
CONIFERAE, 304 
CONIINE. 181 
CONIUM MACULATUM, 447 

bladder, 91 

cancer, 449, 561 ' 

cancer of the stomach, 449 

cataract, 575 

complementary relations, 449 

constipation, 449 

cough, 361, 448 

cystitis, 450 

debility, 447 

ears, 448 

eyes, 360, 619 

glands, 448 

heart, 392, 448, 656 

hypochondriasis, 448, 638 

impotence, 564 

injuries, 449, 532 

muscular exhaustion, 336 

mental symptoms, 448 

nervous system, 447 

noma, 449 

paralysis, 318, 447 

poisoning by, 447 

post-diphtheritic paralysis, 447 

prosopalgia, 448 

rheumatism, 231 

scrofulous, 448 

seminal emissions, 175 

sexual excesses, 448, 564 

testicles, 352 

tonsils, enlargement of the, 651 

urethra, 91 

urethritis, 91 

vertigo, 448 

wine, aggravation from, 632, 634 
CONVALLARIA MAJALIS 

heart, 393 

pruritus vulvae, 393 

uterus, 393 
COPAIVA 

gonorrhoea, 91 

lungs, 91, 627 

pemphigus, 87 

skin, 87 

urine, 306 

urticaria, 87, 107 

vesicle irritability, 92 
COPTIS ROOT, 451 
CORALLIUM RUBRUM 

chancre, 311 

nasal catarrh, 656 

psora, 30 

syphilis, 30 

whooping cough, 27, 31 
CORNUS FLORIDA 

intermittent fever, 371 
COTURA MATURA 

skin, 85 
CRABRO, 98 



CROCUS 

chorea, 76, 79 

eyes, 619 

hysteria, 76, 79 

menses, 613 

muscular twitchings, 265 

CROTAuers horridus 

apoplexy of retina, 43 

ciliary neuralgia, 43 

cough, in 

diphtheria, 35, 50 

ears, 43 

erysipelas, 45, 417 

haematuria, 66 

keratitis, 43 

retinal apoplexy, 43 
CROTON TIGLIUM 

antidotal relations, 222 

cholera infantum, 285 

colic, 287, 312 

diarrhoea, 256, 285, 287, 312, 453 

mammary gland, 302, 503 

rhus poisoning, 222 

skin, 85, 313, 688 
CUBEBS 

gonorrhoea, 91 

leucorrhoea, 674 
CUCURBITA 

tape-worm, 285 
CUCURBITACEAE, 284 
CUPRUM ARSENICOSUM 

skin, 85 

visceral neupalgia, 630 
CUPRUM METALLICUM, 628 

after-pains, 356 

antidotal relations, 628 

aortitis, 486 

asthma. 381 

chlorosis, 629 

cholera Asiatica, 628 

colic, 629 

collapse, 70, 629 

complementary relations, 628 

convulsions, 201, 629, 630, 634 

epilepsy, 630 

erysipelas, 417, 630 * 

face, 44 

fever, 629 

hysteria, 198 

intermittent fever, 70 

laryngismus stridulus, 504 

meningitis, 101, 630 

neuralgia, 630 

paralyisis, 537, 630 

pneumonia, 630 

reaction, defective, 464, 629 

scarlatina, 302, 443, 630, 634 

skin, 688 

sleep, 443 

suppressed eruptions, 101, 302, 424, 630, 
634 

uraemia, 629 

whooping cough, 382 
CURARE, 206 

catalepsy, 179 

eczema, 179 



758 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



CURARE (Continued) 

emphysema, 207 

liver spots, 125, 179 

muscular exhaustion, 336 

nervous system, 179, 206 

paralysis, 1 79 

tetanus, 179 
CURARINE, 179 
CYANOGEN, 501 
CYCLAMEN 

asthenopia, 130 

chlorosis, 359 

colic, 263, 360 

dysmenorrhoea, 263 

eyes, 360 

gastric symptoms, 359 

haemorrhages, 369 

headache, 130 

nasal catarrh, 348 

neurasthenia, 359 

strabismus, 617 
CYPRIPEDIUM 

reaction, defective, 121 

sleep, 384 

DIFFENBACHIA 

stomacace, 208 

throat, 95 
DIGITALIN, 387 
DIGITOXIN, 387 
DIGITALIS PURPUREA, 387 

abortion, 388 

alkaloids of, 387 

balanorrhoea, 394 

brain, 393 

cerebro-spinal meningitis, 393 

chordee, 394 

collapse, 69 

cyanosis neonatorum, 389 

cystitis, 393 

dropsy, 66, 164, 396 

face, 389 

gonorrhoea, 394 

heart, 69, 111, 171, 388 

hydrocele, 390 

hydrocephalus, 337, 393 

hydropericardium, 1 1 1 

hydrothorax, 390 

jaundice, 391 

kidneys, 559 

liver, 391 

meningitis, 337, 393 

mental symptoms, 387 

paraphimosis, 394 

seminal emissions, 174, 394 

sleep, 389 

syncope, 37, 38 

urinary organs, 92 

vertigo, 37 

vesical irritation, 92 

vomiting, 388 

vomiting of pregnancy, 388 
DIOSCOREA 

diarrhoea, 453, 473 

seminal emissions, 174 

sexual excesses, 339, 674 

visceral neuralgia, 285 



DITAINE, 168 
DOLICHOS 

dentition, 420 
DORYPHORA 

gonorrhoea, 32 

urethritis, 91 
DRACONTIUM 

bronchitis, 215 
DROSERA 

asthma, 27 

cough, 273, 395, 732 

phthisis, 27, 273 

skin, 85 

whooping cough, 27 
DULCAMARA, 433 

antidotal relations, 586 

bladder, 434 

colic, 434 

complementary relations, 434 

coryza, 434 

cystitis, 351, 434 

diarrhoea, 434, 652 

lungs, 434 

mental symptoms, 683 

myelitis, 236 

nervous system, 434 

otalgia, 434 

paralysis, 434, 731 

paralysis of the lungs, 434 

poisoning by, 433 

rheumatism, 433 

skin, 434 

spinal cord, 434 

throat, 434 

tongue, 434 

twitching of muscles, 433 

urticaria, 434 

EL APS 

diarrhoea, 58 

ears, 43 

gastro-intestinal symptoms, 58 

haemoptysis, 35 

lungs, 51 

phthisis, 51 

pneumonia, 51 

stomach, 58, 324 
ELATERIUM 

cholera infantum, 284 

diarrhoea, 34, 257, 284, 395 
EPIGEA 

vesical irritation, 92 
EQUISETUM HYEMALE 

albuminuria, 90 

cystitis, 90, 351 

enuresis, 90 

haematuria, 90 
ERGOT, iS3 

convulsions, 153 
ERIGERON CANADENSIS 

uterine haemorrhage, 159, 368 

vesical irritability, 92, 159 
ERYODICTION CAL. 

See Yerba Santa 
ESERINE, 178 
EUCALYPTUS 

intermittent fever, 372 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



759 



EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM, 244 

aphonia, 485, 733 

influenza, 244 

intermittent fever, 299, 244, 372 
EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM 

intermittent fever, 244 

vesical irritation, 90, 145 
EUPHORBIA COROLLATA 

cholera morbus, 312 

diarrhoea, 312 

skin, 85 

ulcers, 63 
EUPHORBIA CYPARISblAS 

skin, 86 
EUPHORBIA PEPLUS 

skin, 86 
EUPHORBIACEAE, 312 
EUPHORBIUM 

bones, 313 

erysipelas, 46 

skin, 85, 217, 313 

ulcers, 63 
EUPHRASIA, 396 

blepharitis, 396 

condylomata, 311, 398 

conjunctivitis, 397 

coryza, 380, 397 

eyes, 396, 683 

granular lids, 609 

heart, 718 

iritis, 397 

nasal catarrh, 380 

ophthalmia, 189, 683 

phlyctenular ophthalmia, 496 

ptosis, 396 

FEL TAURI 

constipation, 29 
FEL VULPI 

constipation, 29 
FERRUM CARBONICUM 

neuralgia, 420 
FERRUM IOD. 

female genital organs, 143 

prolapsus uteri, 643 
FERRUM METALLICUM, 639 

anaemia, 367, 493, 640 

antidotal relations, 639 

asthma, 639 

circulation, 639 

chlorosis, 493, 640 

cholera infantum, 642 

complementary relations, 493, 639 

constitution, 639 

cough, 641 

diarrhoea, 166, 370, 642 

epistaxis, 639 

face, 640 

female genital organs, 615 

gastralgia, 640 

gastric symptoms, 496 

haemoptysis, 639, 641 

haemorrhages, 643 

headache, 639, 641 

intermittent fever, 643 

menses, 641 

neuralgia, 640 



FERRUM METALLICUM (Continued) 

phthisis florida, 639, 641 

prolapsus uteri, 643 

rheumatism, 231, 249, 281, 735 

tuberculosis, 641 

uterine haemorrhage, 642 

vertigo, 641 
FERRUM PHOS. 

bladder, 92 

cholera infantum, 159, 270, 642 

enuresis, 734 

diarrhoea, 159, 642 

dysentery, 642 

fever, 320 

hydroa, 159 

inflammation, 159, 642 

lungs, 159 

phthisis, 642 

pneumonia, 159, 642 

pulmonary congestion, 159, 642 

vesical irritation, 92 
FLUORIC ACID, 519 

bones, 519 

caries, 519 

cicatrices, 520 

dental fistula, 519 

felons, 520 

gastric symptoms, 704 

liver, 187 

mental symptoms, 440 

muscular fatigue, 520 

naevi, 441, 521 

nails, 520 

skin, 520 

sleep, 521 

speech, 440 

syphilis, 519 

teeth, 46 

tonsillitis, 414 

varicose veins, 521 

wine, aggravation from, 632 
FORMICA, 98 

albuminuria, 86 

skin, 85, 86 
FORMIC ACID. 98 

GAMBIER, 363 
GAMBOGE 

diarrhoea, 165, 380 
GAULTHERIA 

pleurodynia, 295 
GELSEMINE. 169 
GELSEMIUM, 169 

abortion, 176 

amenorrhoea, 674 

antidotal relations, 176 

aphonia, 170 

bilious fever, 173 

catarrh, 173 

cerebro-spinal meningitis, 172 

cervix uteri, 139, 175 

circulation, 168 

coryza, 173 

cough, 173, 174 

diarrhoea, 176, 255, 272 

diplopia, 170 

dysmenorrhoea, 176 



76o 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



GELSEMIUM (Continued) 

dysphagia, 170, 173 

emotions, 176 

epididymitis, 175 

face, 171 

female genital organs, 175 

fever, 173, 317 

genital organs, 174, 175 

gonorrhoea, 175 

headache, 40, 171, 172, 200, 262, 300, 581, 
701 

heart, 170, 276 

hemicrania, 128 

intermittent fever, 66, 172, 229 

labor, 175, 328 

measles, 174, 326 

muscular fatigue, 336 

nervous system, 169 

orchitis, 513 

paralysis, 166, 170, 448, 606 

passive congestion, 169 

poisoning by, 168 

polyuria, 171 

post-diphtheritic paralysis, 171, 448,. 606 

prosopalgia, 174 

ptosis, 170, 235, 619 

puerperal convulsions, 175, 257 

remittent fever, 172, 317 

rheumatism, gonorrhoeal, 175 

seminal emissions, 174 

sexual excesses, 174, 339 

skin, 174 

strabismus, 171 

throat, 173 

tonsillitis, 173 

typhoid fever, 173, 261, 401 

uterus, 175, 176 
GERANIUM MACULATUM 

diarrhoea, 379 
GETTYSBURG SPRING WATER 

bones, 545 

nip-joint disease, 341, 545, 656 

vertebral caries, 341, 656 
GLONOIN, 4^5 

albuminuria, 437 

amenorrhoea", 673 

antidotal relations, 438 

apoplexy, 537 

apoplexy of the retina, 436 

brain, 320 

circulation, 278, 435 

congestion of the retina, 436, 602 

convulsions, 201, 437 

eyes, 436 

headache, 436, 701 

heart, 466 

inflammation of the brain, 437 

injuries, 437 

meningitis, 101, 320, 438 

mental symptoms, 437, 500 

metrorrhagia, 278 

puerperal convulsions, 437, 438 

retinal congestion, 436, 602 

speech, 437 

sun, ill effects of the, 38, 436, 437 

wine, aggravation from, 632, 634 
GNAPHALIUM 

cholera infantum, 379 



GNAPHALIUM (Continued) 

diarrhoea, 379, 725 

sciatica, 288, 614 
GOSSYPIUM 

retained placenta, 355 
GRAPHITES, 492 

antidotal relations, 492 

aphonia, 210, 733 

blepharitis, 130, 494, 619 

cervix, 142 

chlorosis, 493 

cicatrices, 141, 496, 544 

complementary relations, 492 

constipation, 497 

constitution, 493 

cough, 498 

crusta lactea, 168 

deafness, 59 

diarrhoea, 498 

ears, 498 

eczema, 234, 495 

erysipelas, 97, 496 

eyes, 130, 494, 580, 619, 710 

female genital organs, 498 

fissure in ano, 497 

flatulence, 497 

gastralgia, 57, 497 

gastric symptoms, 57, 496 

glands, 494 

haemorrhoids, a^i 

heart, 499, 718 

heels, 663 

impotence, 498 

indigestion, 57 

leucorrhoea, 141, 493 

male genital organs, 498 

liver, 497 

menses, 141, 493 

mental symptoms, 57, 493 

nasal catarrh, 497 

nipples, 141 

nose, 86 

obesity, 493 

ophthalmia, 347 

ovaries, 65, 498 

prolapsus uteri, 141 

scrofulosis, 494 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 494, 702 

skin, 141, 493, 494, 495, 560, 702 

styes, 40* 

sweat, 653 

tarsal cysts, 340 

throat, 498 

trichiasis, 710 
GRATIOLA 

diarrhoea, 395 
GRINDELIA ROBUSTA 

heart, 171, 466 

lungs, 171, 633 

pneumogastric nerves, 222 

skin, 222 
GUAIACUM 

chest pains, 306 

gout, 288 

growing pains, 530 

phthisis, 215, 298, 329 

pleurodynia, 329 

rheumatism, 288, 298, 735 






INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



761 



GUAIACUM (Continued) 
torticollis, 422 

HALOGENS, 501 
HAMAMELIS 

abortion, 328 

ecchymoses of the sclerotic, 190 

haematemesis, 301 

haemorrhage, 158, 369, 537 

haemorrhoids, 188 

metrorrhagia, 159, 369 

milk leg, 356 

orchitis, 352, 512 

pregnancy, 346 

retinal apoplexy, 43 

typhoid fever, 537 

varicocele, 346 

varicose veins, 366, 521 

vesical irritation, 146 

vicarious menstruation, 301 
HEDEOMA 

female genitals, 146 
HELLEBORUS, 334 

alkaloids of, 334 

aphthae, 48 

apoplexy, 269 

convulsions, 45 

dropsy, 66, 164, 337 

heart, 392 

hydrocephalus, 105, 337 

intermittent fever, 69 

kidneys, 559 

meningitis, 101, 336 

nephritis, 337 

scarlatina, 66, 302 

sensorium, 334 

shock, 337 

skin, 85 

tubercular meningitis, 337 

typhoid fever, 39, 335 

urine, 66 
HELONIAS DIOICA 

albuminuria, 358 

debility, 135 

female genital organs, 134, 357, 616 

leucorrhoea, 358 

lying-in, 357 

mental symptoms, 134 

neurasthenia, 357 

prolapsus uteri, 146, 358 

uterine disease, 134, 615 

vaginitis, 357 
HEPAR SULPHURIS CALC, 6S2 

abscess, 592, 684 

antidotal relations, 536, 543, 585, 600, 688, 
712 

bladder, 687 

boils, 684 

Bright's disease, 685 

buboes, 686 

capillary bronchitis, 686 

catarrhs, 685 

constipation, 53, 686 

coryza, 684, 685 

cough, 234, 513, 683 

croup, 324, 506, 684 

diarrhoea, 687 



HEPAR SULPH. CALC. (Continued) 

dysDepsia, 53, 686 

dysuria, 687 

ears, 43, 412, 683 

eczema, 688 

enuresis, 687 

erysipelas, 106 

eyes, 496, 683 

fever blisters, 705 

gastric symptoms, 460, 686, 704 

glands, 686 

jaundice, 187 

inflammation, 683 

liver, 687 

lungs, 627, 685 

mania, 683 

marasmus, 687 

mental symptoms, 127, 682 

mercury, abuse of, 536 

nervous system, 248, 682 

neuralgia, 682 

ophthalmia, 683 

otalgia, 683 

otitis externa, 683 

otitis media, 412, 683 

ovarian tumor, 62 

periodontitis, 46 

pneumonia, 685 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 496 

skin, 687 

styes, 496, 683 

throat, 619, 685, 740 

tonsilitis, 414, 592, 684, 685 

tonsils, 651 

tuberculosis, 513, 685 

ulcers, 62, 63, 687 
HIPPOMANE MANC. 

scarlatina, 313 

skin, 86 
HURA BRAS. 

skin, 85 
HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS. 

cancer, 510, 561 

cancer of the uterus, 510 

mucous membranes, 360 

post-nasal catarrh, 348, 656, 722 

stomach, 132 

uterus, 360 
HYDRANGEA 

vesical calculus, 92 
HYDROCOTYLE 

pruritus vaginae, 145 

skin, 560 

vesical irritation, 145 
HYDROCYANIC ACID, 537 

asphyxia, 433 

cholera, 538 

collapse, 69, 538 

convulsions, 433, 538 

cough, 538 

dyspepsia, 517 

epilepsy, 537, 676 

face, 44, 45 

heart, 514, 538 

intermittent fever, 69 

nervous system, 537 

paralysis of brain and lungs, 336, 538 



762 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



HYDROCYANIC ACID (Continued) 

phthisis, 538 

scarlatina, 524, 538, 635 

syncope, 37 

tetanus, 181, 537 

uraemia, 433 

vertigo, 37 
HYMENOPTERA, 32, 93 
HYOSCYAMUS, 426 

apoplexy, 269 

bladder, 271 

brain, 268, 427, 442 

chorea, 77, 428 

convulsions, 44, 45, 201, 428 

cough, in, 361, 247 

delirium, 426, 429 

elongated uvula, 427 

enuresis, 416 

epilepsy, 428 

face, 44, 45 

fever, 428 

headache, 427 

hiccough, 203 

hysteria, 77, 198 

insomnia, 428 

intermittent fever, 69 

mania, 426, 430, 714 

meningitis, 427 

mental symptoms, 102, 198, 426, 427, 437, 
612 

metrorrhagia, 272 

multiple sclerosis of the brain and spinal 
cord, 650 

nervous system, 77, 79 

nymphomania, 563 

paralysis, 426 

puerperal mania, 430 

retention of urine, 271 

scarlatina, 418, 428 

sleep, 428 

typhoid fever, 39, 228, 268 

urethritis, 91 

urine, 442 
HYPERICUM 

injuries, 241 

spine, 241 

tetanus, 181 

IGNATIA AMARA, 197 

antidotal relations, 204, 631 

chorea, 74, 77 

constipation, 220 

convulsions, 200 

cough, in, 201 

deafness, 575 

emotions, 197, 200 

diphtheria, 203 

dislocation of jaw, 235 

dysmenorrhoea, 202, 263 

dyspepsia, 202 

eyes, 203 

fistula, 452 

follicular pharyngitis, 722 

gastralgia, 202 

grief, effects of, 197, 198, 528 

headache, 78, 171, 199 

hiccough, 203 



IGNATIA AMARA (Continued) 

hysteria, 77, 116, 198, 200, 276 

intermittent fever, 201, 372 

joints, 235 

laryngismus stridulus, 504 

mental symptoms, 103, 197, 344, 528 

neuralgia, 203 

neurasthenia, 624 

nose, 276 

paralysis, 624 

phlyctenular ophthalmia, 203 

polyuria, 171, 200, 460 

proctalgia, 60 

prolapsus ani, 203 

rectum and anus, 60, 203 

stomach, 132 

temperament, 197 

throat, 201, 203 

tonsils, 201, 651 

toothache, 203 

worms, 203, 246 
ILLICIUM ANISATUM 

lungs, 627 
INDIGO 

epilepsy, 30 

worms, 203 247 
INDIUM 

gastric symptoms, 636 
INULA 

female genital organs, 146 

vesical irritation, 146 
IODINE, 508 

abuse of, 508 

antidotal relations, 508, 587 

aphthae, 47 

cancer, 510 

cough, 509 

croup, 506 

diarrhoea, 510 

diphtheria, 214 

glands, 509 

heart, 509 

hypertrophy of the heart, 509 

joints, 103 

laryngismus stridulus, 50/1 

marasmus, 703 

mental symptoms, 502, 617 

ovarian tumor, 510 

ovaries, 510 

pancreas, 510 

phthisis, 509 

pneumonia, 508 

rheumatism, 510 

scrofulosis, 509 

synovitis, 103 

tabes mesenterica, 502, 507, 653 

ulcers, 510 
IPECACUANHA, 376 

abortion, 328 

alkaloids, 376 

asthma, 380, 558 

capillary bronchitis, 381, 582 

cholera infantum, 378 

colic, 378 

conjunctivitis, 383 

convulsions, 378 

coryza, 380 






INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



763 



IPECACUANHA (Continued) 

diarrhoea, 379 

emphysema, 558 

gastric symptoms, 350, 351, 377 

general action of, 376 

haematuria, 383 

haemorrhage, 368, 482, 643 

headache, 377 

intermittent fever, 372, 382 

laryngismus stridulus, 504 

lungs, 627 

measles, 303 

mental symptoms, 377 

stomach, 132, 341 

suppressed eruption, 303 

temperament, 377, 383 

vomiting, 579, 672 

whooping- cough, 382 
IPECACUANHIC ACID, 376 
IPOMEA NIL 

renal colic, 92 
IRIS VERSICOLOR 

cholera morbus, 256, 351, 396 

diarrhoea, 351, 371, 396 

headache, 277, 702, 784 

hemicrania, 129 

JABORANDI 

asthenopia, 130 

bronchitis, 686 

eyes, 619 
JACARANDA 

chancroid, 311 

condylomata, 311 
JATROPHA CURCAS 

cholera Asiatica, 256, 312 
JUGLANDACEAE, 207 
JUGLANS CATHARTICA 

See Juglans Cinerea 
JUGLANS CINEREA 

headache, 207, 262, 300 

hydrothorax, 207 

jaundice, 207, 262 

liver, 207 
JUGLANS REGIA 

menses, 207 

KALI BICHROMICUM, 720 

acne, 724 

anus, 60 

asthma, 727 

bronchiectasia, 727 

bronchitis, 727 

constitution, 720 

corneal opacities, 669 

corneal ulcers, 726 

cough, 662, 727 

croup, 595, 723 

diarrhoea, 724 

diphtheria, 214, 524, 595, 721 

dysentery, 61, 97, 725 

eyes, 113, 360, 726 

face, 724 

flushes of heat, 466 

follicular pharyngitis, 722 

gastric catarrh, 720 

gastric symptoms, 724 



KALI BICHROMICUM (Continued) 

gastritis, 754 

gonorrhoea, 722 

headache, 702, 724 

heart, 134, 499, 718 

iritis, 726 

laryngitis, 721 

leucorrhoea, 720 

lupus, 725 

measles, 361, 725 

mucous membranes, 720 

nasal catarrh, 656, 661, 722 

otalgia, 721 

otitis media, 720 

otorrhoea, 721 

ozaena, 49, 310, 722 

pharyngitis, 721 

post-nasal catarrh, 656, 722 

rectum and anus, 60, 61 

rheumatism, 35^, 728 

scrofulous ophthalmia. 113, 726 

skin, 87, 725 

sycosis, 310, 726 

syphilis, 723 

throat, 722 

tongue, 725 

ulcers, 63, 722 

whooping-cough, 32 
KALI BROMATUM, 713 

acne, 716 

antidotal relations, 713 

brain-fag, 714 

cholera infantum, 380 

convulsions, 76, 713 

diarrhoea, 380 

eczema, 716 

epilepsy, 715 

locomotor ataxia, 715 

mental symptoms, 437, 606, 612, 715 

nervous system, 76, 606, 713, 715 

night terrors, 430, 714 

sexual excesses, 76, 606, 713, 715 

skin, 87, 715 

urticaria, 107 
KALI CARB., 736 

abortion, 737 

aphonia, 739 

asthenopia, 130 

backache, 738, 739 

blood, 736 

capillary bronchitis, 740 

chest pains, 306 

complementary relations, 736 

coryza, 739 

cough, 732, 740 

debility, 738 

face, 44 

heart, 111, 145. 737, 74* 

hydropericardium, 111 

liver, 299 

lumbago, 230, 741 

menses, 700 

mental symptoms, 443, 738 

muscular fatigue, 336 

nasal catarrh, 739 

nervous system, 195, 738 

phthisis, 536, 740, 741 



764 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



KALI CARB. (Continued) 

pleurodynia, 296 

pneumonia, 283, 740 

puerperal convulsions, 738 

spinal irritation, 738 

stomach, 132 

sweat, 653 

throat, 739, 740 

urine, 66, 737 

vertigo, 736 
KALI CHLORICUM 

antidotal relations, 586 

asthma, 633 

aphthae, 47 

follicular pharyngitis, 722 

heart, 134, 499 
KALI FERROCYANICUM 

female genual oigans, 144 

heart, J44 

metrorrhagia. 144 
KALI HYDRIODICUM, 716 

antidotal relations, 586, 716, 719 

bones, 341 

Bright's disease, 718 

catarrh, 717 

chemosis, 717 

coryza, 717 

endocarditis, 718 

eyes, 716 

general symptoms, 716 

gummatous tumors, 719 

headache, 716 

heart, 717, 718 

iritis, 716 

joints, 103 

keratitis, 717 

kidneys, 719 

lungs, 717 

ozaena, 64, 717 

paralysis of the lungs, 582 

pericarditis, 718 

phthisis, 718 

pneumonia, 717 

pulmonary oedema, 718 

rheumatism, 719 

sciatica, 719 

skin, 87, 719 

spinal cord, 719 

synovitis, 103 

syphilis, 64, 716, 719 
KALI HYDROSULPHURICUM 

skin, 85, 87 
KALI NITRICUM 

heart, 499 

kidneys, 93 

skin, 87 
KALI PERMANGAN. 

diphtheria, no, 214, 524, 721 
KALI SULPHURATUM 

skin, 87 
KALI SULPHURICUM 

nasal catarrh, 594 
KALMIA 

headache, 171, 200 
heart, no, 214, 534, 721 

hypertrophy of the heart, 323 
neuralgia, 328, 555, 625 



KALMIA (Continued) 

ptosis, 170, 235 

rheumatism, 231, 392 
KAOLIN 

croup, 505, 506, 723 
KOUMYSS, 28 
KREOSOTUM 

acne, 196 

blepharitis, 609 

cancer, 136 

enuresis, 247, 416, 734 

female genital organs, 136, 615 

gastric symptoms, 185, 350 

leucorrhoea, 136 

menses, 136 

neuralgia, 301, 555 

skin, 560 

teeth, 48, 301, 340 

urinary symptoms, 136 

vomiting, 136, 565, 671 

LAC CANINUM, 28 

constipation, 28 

diphtheria, 28, 50 

ozaena, 49 

rheumatism, 353 
LAC DEFLORATUM 

diabetes, 28 

headache, 28 
• prolapsus uteri, 146 
LACHESIS, 36 

abscess, 592 

acne, 196 

albuminuria, 65, 66 

antidotal relations, 62, 587 

aortitis, 486 

aphthae, 47, 48 

apoplexy, 268, 269 

asthma, 51 

bladder, 416 

brain, paralysis of the, 268 

Bright's disease, 65 

bronchitis, 50 

cancer, 71 

carbuncle, 71, 8o, 561 

chancre, 62 

cholera, 59 

circulation, 65 

climaxis, 37, 65, 466 

constipation, 52, 54 

coryza, 49, 294 

cough, in, 152, 421 

croup, 723 

cystitis, 66 

delirium, 38 

delirium tremens, 269 

diarrhoea, 52 

diphtheria, 214, 444, 502 

dropsy, 65, 66 

drunkards, complaints of, 55, 58, 65, 187, 
268, 477 

dysentery, 61 

dyspepsia, 561, 687 

ears, 43 

enteritis, 59 

erysipelas, 41, 45, 106, 416 

eyes, 42 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



765 



LACHESIS (Continued) 
face, 43 

female genitals, 62 
flushes of heat, 466 
gastric symptoms, 52, 56, 704 
general action, 35 
haematuria, 66 
haemophilia, 575 
haemorrhoids, 52 
headache, 40, 41 
heart, 65, in, 718 
hernia, 57 

hydropericardium, in 
inimical relation, 659 
intermittent fever, 68, 202, 372 
jaundice, 52 
' laryngismus stridulus, 504 
liver, 52, 187, 444, 477 
loquacity, 39, 423 
lungs, 374 

male genital organs, 62 
malignant pustule, 71 
meningitis, 42 
menses, 62 
mental symptoms, 36, 38, 102, 218, 437, 

617 
metrorrhagia, 278 
modalities, 71 
nasal catarrh, 49, 294 
nose, 49, 51 
ovaralgia, 62 
ovarian tumors, 62 
ovaries, 62 
ovaritis, 62, 613 
ozaena, 49, 51 
paralysis of the lungs, 582 
parotitis, 443 
periproctitis, 60 
peritonitis, 59 
pneumonia, 51, 474 
post-scarlatinal dropsy, 66 
prosopalgia, 46 
puerperal mania, 328 
rectum and anus, 52 
retinal apoplexy, 43, 66 
scarlatina, 42, 70, 233, 418, 661 
scrofulous ophthalmia, 42 
sexual symptoms, 62 
skin, 86 
sleep, 36 
sore mouth, 47 
speech, 440 
stomach, 52, 58 
sunstroke, 38 
jyncope, 37 
syphilis, 62 
teeth, 46 
tetanus, 44, 181 
throat, 49 
tonsillitis, 49, 592 
tuberculosis, 52 
typhlitis, 54, 59 

typhoid fever, 39, 108, 268, 402, 430 
ulcers, 62 

universal symptoms, 35 
urine, 66 
vertigo, 36, 82 



LACHESIS (Continued) 

yellow fever, 55 
LACHNANTHES 

intermittent fever, 69 

torticollis, 194 
LACTIC ACID, 517 

diabetes mellitus, 518 

sweat, 653 
LACTUCA 

heart, 718 
LAC VACCINUM, 28 
LAMIUM ALBUM 

haemorrhoids, 220 

headache, 220 
LAPIS ALBUS 

cancer, 510 

tuberculosis, 510 
LATHYRUS, 162 
LAUROCERASUS 

asphyxia neonatorum, 583 

catarrhs, 662 

cough, 361, 538, 732 

liver, 477 

phthisis, 538 

reaction, defective, 464, 629 

scarlatina, 38 

syncope, 37, 38 

vertigo, 37 
LEDUM 

acne, 195 

antidotal relations, 114 

drunkards' complaints, 195, 324 

ecchymoses of the sclerotic, 191 

gout, 232, 297 

haemorrhages, 369 

haemoptysis, 324 

heart, 656 

heels, 663 

injuries, 241 

lumbago, 230 

polypi, 369 

rheumatism, 232, 297, 353, 392, 548 

wine, aggravation from, 632 
LEPTANDRA VIRGINICA, 395 

diarrhoea, 396, 598 

liver, 395. 598 

typhoid fever, 537 
LILIUM TIGRINUM 

asthenopia, 130 

chest, 134, 346 

circulation, 127, 346 

diarrhoea, 134 
' female genitals, 133, 616 

heart, 134 

leticorrhoea, 134 

mental symptoms, 127 

poisoning by, 133 

ovaries, 133 

prolapsus uteri, 133 

retroversion, 133 

subinvolution of the uterus, 133 

uterine symptoms, 133, 360 
LIME 

preparations of, 666 
LINARIA, 394 

enuresis, 90, 395 

fainting, 394 



766 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



LITHIUM CARB., 654 
asthenopia, 655 

bladder, 655 

cough, 655 

debility, 654 

diarrhoea, 655 

eyes, 655 

gastralgia, 655 

gout, 453, 654 

headache, -55 

heart, 656 

hemiopia, 655, 702 

joints, 654, 656 

menses, 655 

mucous membranes, 655 

nasal catarrh, 655 

rheumatism, 453, 655, 656 

skin, 655, 677 

wine, 655 
LOBELIA INFLATA 

asthma, 381 

hay fever, 557 

gastric symptoms, 377 

vomiting, 265 
LOBELIA SYPHILITICA 

scapular pain, 282 
LYCOPODIUM, 439 

abortion, 328 

amenorrhoea, 674 

aphthous sore mouth, 48 

asthma, 191 

bladder, 416 

brain, paralysis of the, 442 

blood, 441 

bronchial catarrh, 445 

capillary bronchitis, 382 

cataract, 443 

cirrhosis of the liver, 444 

colic, J22 

complementary relations, 446 

constipation, 186, 444 

constitution, 440 

convulsions, 44 

cough, 546 

diphtheria, 50, 211, 413, 443 

dropsy, 445 

dyspepsia, 131, 487 

dysuria, 443, 711 

erectile tumors, 441 

face, 44, 440 

feet, 692 

fever, 440 

flatulence, 284, 445, 497 

gastric symptoms, 444, 553, 724 

gout, 453, 056 

gravel, 443 

haemorrhoids, 441 

hectic fever, 446 

hemiopia, 702 

hernia, 189 

hydropericardium, 445 

intermittent fever, 70, 441 

joints, 656 

kidneys, 446 

labor, 328 

liver, 282, 444 

liver spots, 125 



LYCOPODIUM (Continued) 

lungs, 445, 627 

mental symptoms, 37, 440 

modalities, 440 

mucous membranes, 445 

naevi, 441 

nasal catarrh, 445 

ovaries, 65 

parotitis, 442 

pneumonia, 446 

pregnancy, 441 

preparation of, 440 

pulse, 441 

renal colic, 191, 446 

retinitis, 443 

rheumatism, 231, 446, 453 

scarlatina, 211, 418, 442, 446 

scrofulosis, 545 

seminal emissions, 175, 192 

sensitiveness, 36 

sexual excesses, 192, 339 

skin, 688 

sleep, 443 

stomach, 131 

styes, 443 

temperament, 440 

tongue, 442 

tonsillitis, 414, 454, 651 

tympanites, 261, 271, 487 

typhoid fever, 430, 441, 446, 675 

ulcers, 62, 63, 445 

urine, 271, 442, 710 

varicose veins, 441 

wine, aggravation from, 632 
LYTTA VITATA 

skin, 84 

MAGNESIA CARBONICA, 643 

abuse of, 144 

antidotal relations, 644 

cataract, 646 

colic, 644 

constitution, 644 

diarrhoea, 644, 687 

dyspepsia, 645 

marasmus, 644 

menses, 645 

neuralgia, 120, 644 

pregnancy, 645 

rheumatism, 646 

teeth, 645 

vomiting, 672 
MAGNESIA MURIATICA, 646 

crrtaraclu-575-. 

constipation, 647 

constitution, 646 

dysmenorrhoea, 202, 647 

dysuria, 648 

headache, 120, 646 

heart, 120, 647 

hysteria, 120, 646 

liver, 186, 647 

menses, 120, 647 

nervous system, 120, 121, 648 

ozaena, 647 

rachitis, 647 

scirrhus, 202 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



767 



MAGNESIA MURIATICA (Continued) 

scrofulous, 648 

skin, 647 

sweat, 647 

tongue, 647 

uterus, 202, 647 
MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA 

nervous system, 648 

neuralgia, 120, 555 
MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA 

heart, 393 
MALARIA OFFICINALIS 

intermittent fever, 373 
MAMMALIA, 27 
MANCINELLA 

scarlatina, 86, 313 

skin, 85, 86, 313 
MANGANUM 

anaemia, 641 

cough, 609 

heels, 663 

larynx, 609 

liver, 633 

marasmus, 633 

paralysis, 633 

rheumatism, 663 
MEDORRHINUM 

mental symptoms, 37 
MEDUSA 

urticaria, 31 
MELANTHACEAE, 250 
MEL CUM SALE 

metritis, 415 

uterus and ovaries, 112 
MELILOTUS 

headache, 200, 217 
MENISPERMACEAE, 259 
MENTHA PIPERITA 

cough, 428 
MENYANTHES 

headache, 354, 547 

intermittent fever, 68, 372, 483 
MEPHITIS 

asthma, 27 

loquacity, 39 

nervous system, 27, 79 

sleep, 521 

whooping-cough, 27, 31 
MERCURIUS ACETICUS 

vesical irritation, 92 
MERCURIUS BINIOD. 

diphtheria, 214, 594 

eyes, 593 

syphilis, 491, 597 
MERCURIUS COkROS. 

balanorrhoea, 394 

corneal ulcers, 593 

diphtheria, 596 

eyes, 593 

gonorrhoea, 91, 394 

iritis, 593, 602, 716 

ophthalmia neonatorum, 347 

retinitis albuminurica, 593 

syphilis, 593, 596, 602 

syphilitic nasal disease, 596 

throat, 95, 596 

typhlitis, 60 



MERCURIUS CORROS. (Continued) 

ulcers, 597 

urinary organs, 91 
MERCURIUS CYANATUS 

croup, 723 

diphtheria, 214, 481, 524, 595 

epistaxis, 451 
MERCURIUS DULCIS 

eyes, 593 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 593 
MERCURIUS PROTOIOD. 

diphtheria, 595 

eyes, 593 

syphilis, 597 

ulcers of the cornea, 593 
MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS 

hydrothorax, 390, 559 
MERCURIUS VIVUS AfcD SOLUBILIS, 
590 

abscess, 592 

abscess of teeth, 46 

antidotal relation, 589 

aphthous sore mouth, 47, 710 

balanorrhoea, 311 

blepharitis, 397, 593, 609 

bones, 341 

catarrhal fever, 591 

catarrh of the bowels, 591 

chancroid, 596 

congestions, 591 

conjunctivitis, 397 

constipation, 54 

corneal ulcers, 593 

coryza, 190, 594 

diarrhoea, 250, 396, 591 

diphtheria, 594 

dysentery, 54, 188, 253, 296,' 324, 357 

dyspepsia, 54 

epistaxis, 591 

eyes, 397, 495, 593 

fever, 410 

felon, 592 

gastric fever, 591 

glands, 590, 596 

glans, irritation of, 88 

gonorrhoea, 91, 311, 352, 394 

haemorrhages, 591 

headache, 4T, 591 

inimical relations, 543 

iritis, 311, 593 

jaundice, 187 

leucorrhoea, 674 

liver, 395, 597, 647 

male genital organs, 88 

meningitis, 591 

menorrhagia, 592 

nasal catarrh, 594 

nostalgia, 590 

orchitis, 513 

ovarian tumor, 62 

otitis media, 349 

ozaena, 49 

periodonitis, 46 

peritonitis, 592 

phimosis, 352 

pneumonia, 283, 592 

rheumatism, 311 



768 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



MERCURIUS VIV. AND SOL. (Continued) 
scabies, 476 
scrofulosis, 590 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 496, 593 
~ skin, 85, 688 
sweat, 591 

syphilis, 591, 593, 596 
throat, 190, 594, 685 
tongue, 454 

tonsillitis, 414, 592, 685 
toothache, 47, 81 
typhlitis, 54, 59 
typhoid fever, 226 
ulcers, 62, 63, 534 
urinary organs, qo, 91 
MERCURY 

antidotes, 189, 536, 585, 600 
poisoning by, 588 
preparations of, 584 
MEZEREUM 
anus, 60 

antidotal relation, 587 
ciliary neuralgia, 205 
cough, 234 
crusta lactea, 168 
eczema, 233 
herpes zoster, 332 
neuralgia, 308, 555 

rectum and anus, 60 
skin, 85, 86, 168 

ulcers, 125, 677 
MILLEFOLIUM, 243 

haematemesis, 301 

haemoptysis, 324 

haemorrhages, 243, 368 

menses, 301, 613 
MINERAL 'KINGDOM, 4 5S 
MITCHELLA 

cervix uteri, 145 

metrorrhagia, 158 

vesical irritability, 145, 158 
MOMORDICA BALSAMUM 

flatulence, 284, 445 
MORPHIA 

cancer, 265 

tympanites, 265 
MOSCHUS, 27, 115 

antidotal relations, 79, 116 

convulsions, 116 

headache, 116 

hysteria, 79, 116, 198, 614 

menses, 65 

mental symptoms, 79, 116 

nervous system, 115 

paralysis of the lungs, 485, 582 

pneumonia, 121 

poisoning by, 115 

reaction, defective, 121, 150 

vertigo, 37 
MUREX PURPUREA 

leucorrhoea, 135 

menses, 135 

polyuria, 136 

uterus, 135 
MURIATIC ACID, 521 

antidotal relations, 525 
aphthous sore mouth, 47 



MURIATIC ACID (Continued) 

cirrhosis of the liver, 525 

diphtheria, 211, 524 

dropsy, 525 

gastric symptoms, 525 

general symptoms, 521 

mental symptoms, 521 

muscular exhaustion, 736, 525 

nervous system, 521 

scarlatina, 211, 524 

typhoid fever, 40, 108, 228, 403, 430, 522 

ulcers, 63 
MYGALE, 73 

chordee, 75 

chorea, 75 

mental symptoms, 75 

nervous system, 73 
MYLABIS CICHORII ET PHALATERII, 

80 
MYOSOTIS 

lungs, 627 
MYRICA CERIFERA 

jaundice, 391 
MYRTUS COMMUNIS 

phthisis, 83, 306 

NAJA 

diphtheria, 50, 213 
NAPHTHALIN 

emphysema, 558 
NATRUM ARSENICOSUM (or Arseni- 
catum), 706 

bronchitis, 707 

catarrh, 706 

coryza, 706 

cough, 707 

diphtheria, no, 214, 254 

face, 43 

psoriasis, 707 

scarlatina, 524 

throat, 706 

tuberculosis, 707 
NATRUM CARBONICUM, 689 

ankle-joint, 676, 692 

burns, 689 

catarrhs, 693 

cervix uteri, 142, 693 

constipation, 690 

corneal ulcers, 693 

cough, 693 

debility, 692 

diarrhoea, 690 

dyspepsia, 690 

eczema, 693 

eyes, 619 

feet, 692 

female genital organs, 142, 693 

headache, 692 

heat, ill effects of, 691 

heels, 663, 692 

hypochondriasis, 689 

labor, 694 

marasmus, 645 

mental symptoms, 689 

mucous membranes, 693 

nasal catarrh, 693 

nervous system, 691 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



769 



NATRUM CARBONICUM (Continued) 
ozaena, 693 
pregnancy, 691 
phlyctenular ophthalmia, 693 
prolapsus uteri, 142 
seminal emissions, 703 
skin, 689 

sunstroke, 38, 691 
NATRUM HYPOCHLOROSUM, 142 
ankle-joint, 692 
aphthous sore mouth, 48 
enuresis, 692 
female genitals, 143 
headache, 143 
otorrhoea, 692 
prolapsus uteri, 143 
pruritus vulvae, 143 
NATRUM MURIATICUM, 696 
anaemia, 698 
antidotal relation, 696 
anus, 60, 705 
asthenopia, 130, 702 
awkwardness, 102 
brain-fag, 128 
blepharospasm, 189 
cataract, 575, 697 
catarrhs, 648, 702 
chlorosis, 700 
chorea, 699 
ciliary neuralgia, 701 
conjunctivitis, 131 
constipation, 704 
coryza, 702 
cough, 427, 703, 732 
diarrhoea, 705 
dyspepsia, 704 
eczema, 705 

elongated uvula, 427, 703 
eyes, 130, 619, 702 
headache, 128, 300, 699, 701, 702, 724 
female genital organs, 142, 615, 700 
fever blisters, 705 
fright, ill effects of, 272 
gonorrhoea, 703 
gout, 656 

grief, chronic effects of, 197, 528 
headache, 128, 300, 699, 701, 702, 724 
heart, 134, 499 
hemiopia, 702 
herpes, 705 

hypochondriasis, 699, 704 
intermittent fever, 108, 229, 706 
leucorrhoea, 142 
marasmus, 703 
menses, 700 

mental symptoms, 102, 126, 344, 624, 699 
nervous system, 29, 606, 691 
neuralgia, 625 
paralysis, 170, 624, 627 
prolapsus ani, 704 
prolapsus uteri, 142, 146, 700 
ptosis, 131 

rectum and anus, 61, 705 
scrofulous ophthalmia, 702 
scurvy, 698 

seminal emissions, 703 
skin, 688, 698, 702, 705 

49 



NATRUM MURIATICUM (Continued) 

spinal irritation, 329, 700, 739 

sunstroke, 38 

sweat, 300 

throat, 702 

tongue, 333, 698 

urine, 06 

urticaria, 705 
NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM 

seminal emissions, 703 
NATRUM SULPHURICUM, 694 

asthma, 694 

constitution, 694 

corneal opacities, 699 

diarrhoea, 453, 474, 695, 724 

eyes, 619 

flatulence, 695 

hip-joint disease, 695 

injuries, 434, 694 

jaundice, 187 

phthisis, 694 

sycosis, 694 
NICCOLUM 

stomach, 132 
NICOTINUM 

tetanus, 181, 182 
NITRI SPIRITUS DULCIS 

See Sweet Spirits of INitre 
NITRIC ACID, 533 

abscess of the mastoid process, 435, 591 

antidotal relations, 535, 536, 586 

anus, 60, 534 

aphonia, 536 

aphthous sore mouth, 47, 48 

balanorrhoea, 310 

caries of the mastoid process, 43, 435, 491, 
535. 602 

catarrh, 534 

chancre, 63, 535 

condylomata, 310 

corneal ulcers, 535, 670 

cough, 536 

diarrhoea, 534 

diphtheria, 210, 444, 534 

ears, 43, 535 

fissure in ano, 497, 534 

iritis, 602 

leucorrhoea, 510, 534 

local effects of, 533 

mastoid, caries of, 43, 435, 602 

mental symptoms, 219, 535 

mercury, abuse of, 535 

mucous membranes, 533, 534 

ozaena, 49 

pemphigus, 87 

phthisis, 536 

ptyalism, 534 

rectum and anus, 60 

renal colic, 610 

scarlatina, 210, 534 

scrofulosis, 670 

skin, 85 

stomacace, 534 

sweat, 653 

syphilis, 63, 491, 534, 535, 602 

throat, 535, 609, 619, 685 



77o 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



NITRIC ACID (Continued) 

tuberculosis, 670 

typhoid fever, 522, 536 

ulcers, 63, 310, 534, 535 

urine, 534 

warts, 310, 535 
NITRITE OF AMYL 

cerebral congestion, 320 

climacteric, 31, 466 

eyes, 412 

flushes of heat, 31, 466 

heart, 31 

metrorrhagia, 278 

neuralgia, 322, 419 

prosopalgia, 322 
NITRO-MURIATIC ACID 

gastric symptoms, 525 
NOBLE METALS, 599 
NOSODES, 147 
NUPHAR LUTEUM 

diarrhoea, 380 
NUX JUGLANS 

crusta lactea, 168 

skin, 85 

tinea favosa, 168, 234 
NUX MOSCHAfA 

eyes, 619 

face, 44 

hysteria, 11 8, 199 

mental symptoms, 118 

nervous system, 118, 121, 248 

rheumatism, 646 
NUX VOMICA, 177 

abdominal symptoms, 136 

acne, 195 

amblyopia, 189 

antidotal relations, 136, 266, 492, 562 

apoplexy, 269 

arthritic headache, 128 

asthma, 190 

atrophy of the retina, 189 

backache, 194 

bladder, 192 

blepharospasm, 189 

brain-fag, 128, 540 

brain, softening of the, 184, 564 

catarrh, 190 

colic, 186, 272, 621 

complementary relations, 183 

composition of, 177 

conjunctivitis, 189 

constipation, 184, 186, 220, 445, 686 

coryza, 190, 249, 326, 594 

cough, in, 196 

cramps in muscles, 288 

debility, 252 

diarrhoea, 188, 287 

drunkards, complaints of, 186, 187, 189, 
191, 195 

dysentery, 96, 188, 597 

dysmenorrhoea, 263 

dyspepsia, 184, 185, 350, 477, 487, 704 

dysuria, 192 

ears, 190 

ecchymoses of the sclerotic, 189 

epilepsy, 30, 547-676 



NUX VOMICA (Continued) 
epistaxis, 190 
Eustachian catarrh, 190 
eyes, 131, 189 
face, 44 

female genitals, 136, 193 
follicular tonsillitis, 722 
gastric catarrh, 378 
gastric irritability, 184 
gastric symptoms, 445 
gonorrhoea, 192 
haematuria, 192 
haemoptysis, 191 
haemorrhoids, 186, 187 
headache, 129, 183, 184, 300 
hemicrania, 129 
hernia, 189 

hypochondriasis, 618, 691 
hysteria, 276 

inimical relation, 196, 631 
intermittent fever, 196 
jaundice, 187 
labor, 193, 355 
lead colic, 621 
liver, 130, 136, 186 
liver spots, 125 
locomotor ataxia, 194 
lumbago, 194, 677 
marasmus, 554 
masturbation, 192 
menses, 193 

mental symptoms, 102, 344, 619 
metrorrhagia, 194 
modalities, 196, 440 
myelitis, 194 
nasal catarrh, 594 
nose, 276 
paralysis, 315, 731 
pregnancy, 193, 691 
prolapsus uteri, 193, 454, 625 
renal colic, 182, 191 
rheumatism, 195, 677 
scrofulous ophthalmia, 189 
seminal emissions, 175, 192 
sensitiveness, 36 
sexual excesses, 192, 339, 477 
sleep, 184, 196, 361 
spinal cord, 194, 620 
spinal irritation, 194, 330, 620 
stomacace, 190 
stomach, 59, 136 
temperament, 183 
tetanus, 537 
throat, 190 
torticollis, 194, 422 
typhoid fever, 196 
uterus, 136 

vomiting of pregnancy, 193, 220, 691 
wine, aggravation from, 632, 634 

OCINUM 

renal calculi, 92 
OENANTHE CROCATA 

convulsions, 428 
OENOTHERA BIENNIS 

diarrhoea, 379 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



771 



OLEANDER, 165 

abdominal organs, 165 

antidotal relations, 167 

crusta lactea, 167 

diarrhoea, 166, 371, 642 

headache, 165 

lactation, 165, 490 

mental symptoms, 165 

paralysis, 165, 166 

poisoning by, 165 

skin, 85, 166 

stomach, 132, 165 

vertigo, 165 
OLEUM ANIMALE, 28 

headache, 171 

polyuria, 171 
OLEUM JECORIS ASELLI 

general symptoms of, 29 

tuberculosis, 29 
OLEUM RICINI COMMLNIS 

See Ricinus Communis 
OPHIDIA, 33 

antidotes, 35 

general effects, 34 
OPIUM, 264 

abortion, 176 

alkaloids of', 264 

antidotal relations, 266, 268, 272 

anus, 60 

apoplexy, 100, 268 

asphyxia from charcoal vapor, 273 

bladder, 271 

brain, paralysis of the, 268 

cholera infantum, 270 

colic, 272, 621 

constipation, 186, 271, 461 

convulsions, 200, 201, 270 

cough, 270 

delirium tremens, 269 

diarrhoea, 176, 255 

drunkards, complaints of, 268, 269, 270, 
650 

face, 44, 420 

fever, 272 

fright, ill effects of, 270, 272 

general action of, 266 

haemoptysis, 270 

hernia, 272 

lead colic, 621 

marasmus, 271 

mental symptoms, 268 

metrorrhagia, 272 

muscular exhaustion, 336 

poisoning by, 266, 267 

puerperal fever, 272 

reaction, defective, 150, 270 

rectum and anus, 60, 61 

retention of urine, 271 

suppression of urine, 271 

suppuration of the lungs, 270 

tympanites, 267, 270 

typhlitis, 2-2 

typhoid fever, 39, 268, 272, 335, 336, 528 
OPUNiIA VULGARIS 

diarrhoea, 379 
ORTHOPTERA, 32 



OSMIUM 

urine, 306 
OXALIC ACID 

spinal softening, 540 

testicles, 352 
OZONE, 458 

PAEONIA 

fissure in ano, 497 

haemorrhoids, 497 
PALLADIUM, 615 

female genital organs, 615 

headache, 615 

hysteria, 78 

mental symptoms, 64, 78, 615 

ovaritis, 64, 616 

uterus, 79, 615 
PAPAVERACEAE, 264 
PAREIRA BRAVA 

cystic calculus, 93 

urinary symptoms, 93, 453 
PARIS QUADRIFOLIA 

eyes, 412 

headache, 547 

larynx, 610 

loquacity, 39 

mammae, 503 
PASSIFLORA INCARNATA 

tetanus, 179 
PAULLINIA SORBILIS 

diarrhoea, 379 

headache, 278 
PENTHORUM SEDOIDES 

coryza, 348 
PETROLEUM, 498 

antidotal relations, 500 

blepharitis, 499 

cough, 499 

dacryo-cystitis, 499 

diarrhoea, 499, 500 

eczema, 311, 495, 499 

eyes, 499 

dislocation of the jaw, 235 

fistula, 499 

gastralgia, 497 

gastric symptoms, 500 

headache, 172, 300 

heart, 134, 499 

lumbago, 230 

mental symptoms, 437, 500 

nervous system, 500 

ozaena, 499 

periodontitis, 46 

rheumatism, 499 

sea-sickness, 499 

skin, 31, 495, 498 

sprains, 499 

sweat, 499, 544 

sycosis, 398 

teeth, 46 

typhoid fever, 500 

vertigo, 82 

vomiting of pregnancy, 499 
PETROSELINUM 

gonorrhoea, 90, 394, 450, 710 

dysuria, 710 



772 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



PETROSELINUM (Continued) 

vesical irritation, 90 
PHELLANDRIUM 

headache, 354, 450 

mammary glands, 302, 450 

phthisis, 546 
PHOSPHORIC ACID, 526 

bones, 530 

cough, 530 

debility, 367, 526, 624 

diabetes, 518 

diarrhoea, 370, 530 

enuresis, 247 

epistaxis, 527 

face, 44 

fright, ill effects of, 272 

grief, ill effects of, 197, 528 

growing pains, 530 

headache, 530 

hip-joint disease, 530 

home-sickness, 528 

kidneys, 530 

masturbation, 529 

mental symptoms, 197, 471, 526, 738 

mucous membranes, 529 

neurasthenia, 367, 541, 624 

ovaries, 528 

rheumatism, 735 

seminal emissions, 529 

sensorial depression, 335, 526 

sleep, 529 

tuberculosis, 530 

typhoid fever, 228, 335, 430, 523, 527 

ulcers, 63 

uterus, 528 

vertebral caries, 530 
PHOSPHORUS, 562 

alimentary tract, 567 

amblyopia, 574 

amenorrhoea, 569 

antidotal relations, 562 

aphonia, 462, 485, 570 

asthenopia, 574 

blood, 575 

bones, 545, 573 

brain fag, 540 

brain, softening of the, 184 

Bright's disease, 569 

bronchitis, 190, 570, 571 

cancer of the stomach, 568 

capillary bronchitis, 381 

cataract, 575 

chest pains, 306 

chorea, 565 

choroiditis, 574 

complementary relations, 562 

constipation, 566 

coryza, 380 

cough, 151, 421, 546, 570, 571 

croup, 570 

deafness, 574 

debility, 367 

delirium, 563 

diabetes, 568 

diarrhoea, 166, 475, 565, 568 

dyspepsia, 568 



PHOSPHORUS (Continued) 
endocarditis, 572 
eyes, 574, 683 
face, 44, 45 

fatty degeneration, 540, 566, 569 
fatty degeneration of the heart, 572 
fatty degeneration of the liver, 567 
fistulae, 573 

gastric symptoms, 565, 568, 636 
grief, ill effects of, 198 
haematemesis, 301, 575 
haemophilia, 575 
haemoptysis, 301, 569 
haemorrhages, 369, 569 
headache, 563 
heart, 31, 514, 572 
hip-joint disease, 573 
hysteria, 276 
impotence, 564 
inimical relation, 729 
jaundice, 567 
kidneys, 559, 569 
laryngismus stridulus, 504 
larynx, 462, 570 
leucorrhoea, 674 
liver, 477, 565, 567 
locomotor ataxia, 564 
lungs, 627 

mammary abscess, 569 
marasmus, 469 
menses, 301, 569 
mental symptoms, 562 
myocarditis, 572 
nasal catarrh, 569 
necrosis of the lower jaw, 573 
nervous system, 562, 691 
neurasthenia, 367, 540 
nose, 276 

nymphomania, 562, 563, 569 
ozaena, 569 
pancreas, 568 

paralysis, 564, 569, 624, 636 
paralysis of the lungs, 485 
phthisis, 509, 626 
pneumonia, 279, 381, 571 
polypi, 369, 569 
retinal apoplexy, 43 
retinitis, 574 

retinitis albuminurica, 574 
rose-cold, 276 
scrofulosis, 669 

seminal emissions, 175, 540, 563 
sexual excesses, 564 
spasmodic oesophageal stricture, 568 
spinal cord, 564 
spinal irritation, 195, 563 
sweat, 566 
throat, 567 
tongue, 567 
tracheitis, 570 

tuberculosis, 470, 564, 571, 669, 673 
typhoid fever, 
ulcers, 62, 568, 574, 683 
vertebral caries, 573 
vomiting, 672 
waxy degeneration of the liver, 567 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



773 



PHOSPHORUS (Continued) 

white swelling, 573 

yellow atrophy of the liver, 567 
PHYSOSTIGMA 

paralysis, 178 

spinal irritation, 195, 329 

tetanus, 178, 195 
PHYTOLACCA 

aphthous sore mouth, 48 

carbuncle, 561 

cicatrices, 141, 544 

convulsions, 179 

diphtheria, 213, 444 

face, 44 

heart, 225 

mammary abscess, 302 

tetanus, 179 
PICRIC ACID, 538 

back, 134, 361, 539 

brain-fag, 128, 538 

brain, softening of the, 184 

general symptoms of, 538 

headache, 128, 194 

locomotor ataxia, 97 

meningitis, 97 

myelitis, 97 

neurasthenia, 539 

poisoning by, 538 

priapism, 97, 194, 539 

seminal emissions, 539 

skin, 85 

spinal irritation, 194 

vertigo, 539 
PICROTOXINE, 259 

tetanus, 178 
PINUS SYLVESTRIS 

joints, 676, 692 
PIPER METHYSTICUM 

nervous system, 385 

vertigo, 82 
PIPER NIGRUM 

skin, 58, 86 
PISCES, 29 
PIX LIQUIDA, 306 

bronchial catarrh, 215 

lungs, 306, 627 

phthisis, 83, 215, 306 

skin, 85, 86, 87, 306 
PLANTAGO MAJOR 

enuresis, 416, 734 

otalgia, 349 

relation to tobacco, 433 
PLANTAIN 

antidotal relation, 433 
PLATINA, 612 

constipation, 614 

convulsions, 339, 614 

female genital organs, 65, 140, 613 

headache, 78 

hysteria, 78, 198, 613, 614 

lead colic, 614, 621 

masturbation, 339, 614 

menses, 65, 613 

mental symptoms, 127, 140, 612, 615 

neuralgia, 420, 613, 625 

nymphomania, 64, 140, 612 



PLATINA (Continued) 

ovaritis, 64, 613 

prolapsus uteri, 613 

puerperal convulsions, 614 

sexual excesses, 339, 614 

uterus, 140 
PLATINUM MUR. 

bones, 545, 614 
PLUMBUM, 621 

abortion, 622 

antidotal relations, 621 

cerebral sclerosis, 622 

colic, 621 

constipation, 271, 461, 614, 622 

delirium, 622 

epilepsy, 622 

granular kidneys, 603, 623 

kidney, 623 

multiple cerebro-spinal sc^rosis, 622 

muscles, 621 

paralysis, 621, 622, 636 

progressive muscular atrophy, 622 

rectum and anus, 60, 61 

ulcers, 63 
PODOPHYLLJM PELTATUM, 453 

abdominal symptoms, 453 

biliary calculi, 454 

bilious remittent fever, 454 

cholera infantum, 59, 285 

cholera morbus, 256 

constipation, 454 

convulsions, 59 

dentition, 59, 454 

diarrhoea, 188, 250, 371, 395, 453, 474 

fever, 454 

liver, 137, 138, 453 

marasmus, 645 

prolapsus recti, 138, 454, 625 

prolapsus uteri, 138, 188, 454, 625 

skin, 85, 453 

stomach, 138 

tongue, 454 

tonsillitis, 454 
POTASH SALTS 

remarks on the, 712 
POTHOS FOETIDA 

asthma, 216 

hysteria, 216 
PSORINUM, 148 

boils, 150 

cholera infantum, 149 

constitution, 148 

debility, 738 

diarrhoea, 149 

eczema, 234 

headache, 49, 150, 724 

herpes, 149 

night sweats, 374 

otr.irhoea, 149 

pregnancy, 150 

reaction, defective, 149, 150, 270, 464 

scabies, 150 

scarlatina, 148 

sebaceous glands, 149 

skin, 149, 688 

tinea capitis, 149 



774 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



PSORINUM (Continued) 

typhoid fever, 150 

ulcers, 149 
PSEUuO-ACONITINE, 315 
PTELEA 

headache, 377 

liver, 648 
PULMO VULPIS 

asthma, 29 
PULSATILLA NUTTALLIANA, 343 

chest-pains, 306, 361 
PULSATILLA PRATENSIS, 343 

after-pains, 356 

agalactia, 356 

amenorrhoea, 355 

anaemia, 344 

antidotal relations, 343, 644 

asthenopia, 130 

backache, 361 

bronchitis, 361 

chest, 331, 345 

chlorosis, 344, 494 

circulation, 345 

complementary relations, 343 

conjunctivitis, 130, 347 

constipation, 351 

corneal ulcers, 347 

coryza, 190, 348 

cough, 234, 536, 732 

cystitis, 92, 351 

dacryo-cystitis, 347 

diarrhoea, 176, 256, 272, 351, 355 

dysmenorrhoea, 202, 263 

dyspepsia, 185, 370 

ears, 348, 708 

epistaxis, 346, 354, 355 

eyes, 130, 347 

face, 44 

female genital organs, 138, 354 

fever, 360 

fright, ill effects of, 272 

gastric catarrh, 349, 579 

gastric symptoms, 377, 496 

general character of, 343 

gonorrhoea, 310, 352 

gout, 353 

haematemesis, 301 

haemoptysis, 301, 361 

headache, 41, 353 

heart, 225, 345 

heels, 663 

hemicrania, 129 

hiccough, 203 

hydrocele, 353 

intermittent fever, 360 

jaundice, 187 

joints, 221 

labor, 193, 3ss 

leucorrhoea, 674 

lungs, 740 

mammary giands, 356 

measles, 174, 326, 361 

menses, 138, 301, 355 

mental symptoms, 126, 197, 343, 344, 617, 
627, 700 

milk leg, 356 



PULSATILLA PRATENSIS (Continued) 
mucous membranes, 347 
mumps, 245 
nasal catarrh, 348, 594 
neuralgia, 361 

ophthalmia neonatorum, 347, 608 
orchitis, 310, 352 
otalgia, 348, 683, 708 
otitis externa, 348, 354 
otitis media, 348, 349 
ozaena, 310 
pregnancy, 351, 355 

prostate gland, enlargement of the, 352 
prostatitis, 310 
purulent ophthalmia, 608 
retained placenta, 355, 356, 368 
rheumatism, 231, 310, 353 
skin, 85 
sleep, 362 

spinal irritation, 361 
sycosis, 310, 726 
synovial membranes, 353 
synovitis, 353 
temperament, 197, 344 
testicles, 352 
throat, 349 

tuberculosis, 345, 355 
urine, suppression of, 271 
urticaria, 107 
uterus, 138, 625 
varicocele, 346 
varicose veins, 346 
vesical irritation, 92 
vicarious menstruation, 301 
wine, aggravation from, 632 

QUASSIA 

worms, 247 
QUILLAYA SAPONARIA, 627 

coryza, 174 
QUININE 

See Chinin. sulph. 

RADIATA, 30 
RADIX COPTIDIS, 314 
RANUNCULACEAE, 314 
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS, 330 

alcoholism, 332 

diaphragmitis, 321 

eczema, 332 

epilepsy, 332 

hay fever, 332 

headache, 354 

herpes zoster, 332 

hiccough, 332 

pemphigus, 87, 332 

peritonitis, 331 

pleurisy, 331 

pleurodynia, 295, 331 

pneumonia, 331 

rheumatism, 331 

serous membranes, 331 

skin, 85, 86, 330, 332 

ulcers, 332 
RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS, 333 

coryza, 333 






INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



775 



RANUNCULUS SCEL. (Continued) 

diphtheria, 333 

headache, 354 

influenza, 87 

pemphigus, 86 

skin, 86, 87, 330, 333 

stomacace, 333 

tongue, 333 

typhoid fever, 333 

ulcers, 333 
RAPHANUS 

flatulence, 271, 445 
RATANHIA 

fissure in ano, 497 

toothache, 645 
RHEUM 

antidotal relation, 644 

diarrhoea, 644, 687 
RHODODENDRON 

nervous system, 691 

orchitis, 352 

rheumatism, 231 

wine, aggravation from, 632 
RHUS GLABRA 

headache, 217 
RHUS RADICANS 

headache, 222 

pleurodynia, 231, 296 

rheumatism, 231 
RHUS TOXICODENDRON, 223 

antidotal relations, 223, 224 

aphonia, 733 

apoplexy, 269 

blepharospasm, 235 

brain, 235 

carbuncles, 232 

cellulitis, 232, 234 

chemosis, 113 

circulation, 223 

colic, 234 

conjunctivitis, 113, 235, 397 

coryza, 234 

cough, 234, 546 

diarrhoea, 234 

diphtheria, 213, 225, 232 

dislocation of the jaw, 235 

dropsy, 445 

dysentery, 225, 234 

eczema, 232 

enteritis, 59, 234 

erysipelas, 46, 106, 113, 221, 232 

eyes, 113, 235, 397, 609, 619 

face, 41 

fever blisters, 705 

glaucoma, 235 

granular lids, 609 

haemoptysis, 229 

heart, 223, 225, 323 

herpes zoster, 332 

hypertrophy of the heart, 223, 239, 323, 
508 

influenza, 234 

inimical relation, 114 

injuries, 240 

intermittent fever, 229 

iritis, 235, 397 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON (Continued) 

lumbago, 230, 677 

meningitis, 102 

mental symptoms, 226, 437 

metritis, 234 

muscular exertion, ill effects of, 229, 521 

oesophagus, 414 

otalgia, 235 

palpitation of the heart, 225 

paralysis, 236, 322, 731 

parotitis, 443 

pemphigus, 87 

periproctitis, 60 

peritonitis, 59, 225, 234 

perityphlitis, 234 

phlyctenular ophthalmia, 235 

pneumonia, 225, 227 

ptosis, 170, 235, 398 

pulse, 225 

scarlatina, 102, 109, 225, 233 

rheumatism, 230, 249, 297, 677, 735 

scrofulous opnthalmia, 235 

skin, 85, 232, 560 

sprains, 229 

sweat, 545, 566 

tongue, 226, 333, 567 

toothache, 236 

torticollis, 230 

typhlitis, 60, 234 

typhoid fever, 40, 225, 226, 292, 402, 410, 
430, 523, 527, 552 

typhoid pneumonia, 227 

ulcers, 445 

urticaria, 107 

variola, 233, 234 

vertigo, 234 

vomiting, 265, 417 
RHUS VENENATA, 217 
RICINUS COMMUNIS 

agalactia, 313, 356 

antidote to, 313 
ROBIN I A 

neuralgia, 555 
ROSA DAMASCENA 

hay fever, 557 
RUBIACEAE, 363 
RUMEX CRISPUS 

asthma, 27 

cough, in, 421, 427, 546, 570 

diarrhoea, 474, 724 

pleurodynia, 296 

urticaria, 107 
RUTA 

asthenopia, 449 

complementary relations, 681 

eyes, 449, 619 

injuries, 532, 654 

lumbago, 230 

sprains, 654 

SABADILLA, 258 
influenza, 258 
intermittent fever, 229 
mental symptoms, 258 
modalities, 440 
tonsillitis, 258 



776 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



SABADILLA (Continued) 

worms, 258 
SABINA, 305 

abortion, 305 

condylomata, 311 

gastric symptoms, 350 

gout, 298 

menses, 613 

metrorrhagia, 305, 368 

retained placenta, 356 

rheumatism, 298, 663 
SACCHARUM OFFICINALE 

corneal opacity, 669 

mental symptoms, 669 
SALICYLIC ACID 

aphthae, 48 

Meniere's disease, 733 
SAMBUCUS 

coryza, 249 

laryngismus stridulus, 324, 504 

laryngitis, 513 
SANGULNARIA CANADENSIS, 275 

acne, 280 

aphonia, 280 

bronchitis, 374 

circulation, 276, 278 

conjunctivitis, 280 

coryza, 280 

cough, 152, 234, 278, 279, 374 

ears, 276 

general action of, 276 

haemorrhages, 278 

headache, 82, 171, 200, 276 

hemicrania, 128 

hysteria, 276 

larynx, 290 

menses, 278 

mental symptoms, 275 

metrorrhagia, 278 

nose, 276 

phthisis, 278 

pneumonia, 278 

polypi, 280, 570 

polyuria, 171 

rheumatism, 280, 646, 735 

rose-cold, 276 

skin, 275 

vertigo, 276 
SANTONINE, 246 

eyes, 247, 360 
SAPONIN, 627 

muscular exhaustion, 336 
SARSAPARILLA 

antidotal relations, 272 

chest pains, 306 

gravel, 92, 443 

headache, 311 

marasmus, 272 

skin, 311 

stomach, 132 

sycosis, 311, 726 

tinea capitis, 311 

urine, 710 
SCILLA MARITIMA 

cough, 546, 703, 732 

lungs, 627 



SCOPARIUS 

dropsy, 163 
SCROPHULARIACEAE, 387 
SCUTELLARIA 

reaction, defective, 121 
SCROPHULARIACEAE, 387 

abortion, 154 

blood, 154 

bloodvessels, 154, 650 

cataract, 575 

cholera Asiatica, 155, 554 

cholera infantum, 155 

cholera morbus, 155 

circulation, 154 

collapse, 69, 156 

constitution, 154 

convulsions, 153, 201, 437 

enuresis, 247 

epistaxis, 1 5 7 

face, 44 

female genital organs, 145 

follicular pharyngitis, 722 

gangrene, 154, 156, 560 

gastro-enteric symptoms, 155, 554 

haemorrhages, 154, 368 

intermittent fever, 69 

labor, 154 

lumbago, 677 

lungs, 374 

metrorrhagia, 145, 155, 368 

paralysis, 650 

poisoning by, 153 

prolapsus uteri, 145 

retained placenta, 154, 356 

ulcers, 63, 156 

uterus, 154 
SELENIUM, 459 

aphonia, 210, 462, 733 

constipation, 460 

debility, 459 

gastric symptoms, 460 

headache, 460 

heat, ill effects of, 38, 459 

impotence, 459 

inimical relation, 462 

larynx, 461, 610 

liver, 461 

nervous system, 459 

prostatorrhoea, 459 

seminal emissions, 175, 459 

skin, 461 

sleep, 461 

sun, ill effects of, 38 

typhoid fever, 459 

urinary organs, 306 

urine, aggravation from, 462, 632 
SENECIO AUREUS 

catarrh, 359 

cough, 359 

haemoptysis, 301 

menses, 301, 359 

uterus, 359 
SENEGA 

aphonia, 296 

cough, 296 

phthisis, 626 






INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



777 



SENEGA (Continued) 

pleurodynia, 296 

whooping cough, 32 
SENNA 

debility, 737 

urine, 737 
SEPIA, 122 

abortion, 146 

anaemia, 347 

ankle joint, 676 

antidotal relation. 125, 432 

arthritic headache, 128 

asthenopia, 129, 130 

backache, 361, 636 

brain fag, 128 

cataract, 130 

chlorosis, 124, 347 

chorea, 146 

circulation, 123, 124 

complementary relations, 135, 142 

circulation, 123, 124 

complexion, 123 

conjunctivitis, 130 

connective tissue, 125 

constipation, 220, 705 

constitution, 122 

cough, 732 

discovery of medicinal virtues of, 122 

dyspepsia. 131, 432 

eczema, 693 

enuresis, 734 

epistaxis, 124 

eyes, 129, 619 

female genital organs, 133, 420, 615 

gastric symptoms, 350, 490, 623 

general action of, 122 

gonorrhoea. 394 

haemorrhoids, 131 

headache, 128, 176, 701 

hemicrania, 128 

herpes, 125, 705 

herpes circinatus, 125, 705 

hypochondriasis. 690 

intermittent fever, 372 

joints, 125 

leucorrhoea, 134, 674 

liver, 131, 186 

liver spots, 125 

marasmus, 645 

menses, 133 

mental symptoms, 125, 344, 347, 617. 624, 
690, 700 

neuralgia. 432 

os, induration of the, 139 

pannus, 130 

psoriasis, 125 

post-nasal catarrh, 656 

prolapsus uteri. 193, 454 

ptosis, 170. 235 

rhus poisoning, 125 

scabies, 125, 476 

seminal emissions, 175 

skin, 123, 125, 560, 688 

sphincters, 123 

spinal irritation, 136, 739 

stomach, 131 



SEPIA (Continued) 

time, 124 

trachoma, 130 

ulcers, 125, 711 

urticaria, 107 

uterus, 133, 615 

venous congestion, 123 

vertigo, 82 
SILICEA, 542 

abscesses, 543, 592 

ankle-joint, 676, 732 

antidotal relation, 543 

boils, 543 

bones, 519, 544 

carbuncle, 80, 543 

cataract, 575 

cellulitis, 543 

chest pains, 306 

cicatrices, 543 

complementary relation, 542 

constipation, 546 

constitution, 542, 677 

corneal ulcers, 545 

cough, 546 

diarrhoea, 546 

ears, 43, 435, 545 

enuresis, 416 

epilepsy, 547, 676 

erysipelas, 106 

fissure in ano, 497, 573 

fistula in ano, 452 

fright, ill effects of, 272 

chest pains, 306 

glands, 544 

hay fever, 332, 546, 557 

headache, 171, 200 

hemicrania, 128, 129 

hip-joint disease, 544, 573 

inimical relation, 543 

keratitis, 545 

knee-joint disease, 544 

lungs, 546 

mammary abscess, 569 

mastoid process, affections of the, 43, 545, 
602 

mental symptoms, 272, 440 

mucous membranes, 545 

nasal catarrh, 546 

nervous system, 547, 691 

neuralgia, 683 

neurasthenia, 541 

otitis media, 349, 435 

otorrhoea, 43, 349, 545, 670 

ozaena, 647 

paralysis, 547 

periodontitis, 46 

phthisis, 546, 626 

polyuria, 171 

rachitis, 542, 647 

rhetunatism, 548 

scrofulosis, 494, 544, 561, 648 

skin, 688 

spinal cord, 547, 548 

speech, 440 

sweat, 544, 647, 653 

tabes mesenterica, 653 



778 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



SILICEA (Continued) 
tetanus, 181 

tonsillitis, 414, 546, 592 
tuberculosis, 546 
ulcers, 62, 63, 520, 544, 574 
vaccination, ill effects from, 307, 542 
vertebral caries, 544 
vertigo, 548 

wine, aggravation from, 632 
wine, aggravation irom, 632 
SINAPIS NIGRA, 558 
hay fever, 558 
skin, 85 
SODA 

salts of, 689 
SOLANACEAE, 404 
SOLANINE, 162 
SPIGELIA, 205 
brain, 235 

ciliary neuralgia, 205, 701 
eyes, 205, 321, 412, 701 
headache, 82, 205, 354, 392, 701 
heart, in, 206, 254, 392, 509, 741 
mental symptoms, 205 
neuralgia, 205, 288, 308, 321, 327, 625 
post-nasal catarrh, 348, 722 
prosopalgia, 322 
retinitis, 205 
worms, 206 
SPONGIA, 512 

constitution, 512 
cough, 395, 506, 513 
croup, 323, 506, 684 
glands, 512 

goitre, 512 

heart, 514 
hoarseness, 462 

laryngeal phthisis, 513 
laryngitis, 462, 513 

orchitis, 512 

testicles, 352, 512 

tuberculosis, 513, 686 
SQUILLA MARITIMA 

See Scilla 
STANNUM METALLICUM, 623 

complementary relation, 623 

debility, 624 

dyspepsia, 624 

epilepsy, 625 

gastric symptoms, 624 

hypochondriasis, 624 

hysteria, 625 

mental symptoms, 344, 623 

mucous membranes, 626 

neuralgia, 607, 625 

neurasthenia, 623 

paralysis, 170, 624, 627 

phthisis, 623, 626, 706 

pleurisy, 627 

prolapsus uteri, 136, 624 

stomach, 132 

tongue, 624 

worms, 624, 625 
STAPHISAGRIA, 338 

anger, ill effects of, 286, 339 

antidotal relation, 340, 587 



STAPHISAGRIA (Continued) 

aphtkous sore mouth, 47 

arthritic ophthalmia, 341 

bones, 340 

colic, 248, 339, 341 

condylomata, 311, 340 

crusta lactea, 168, 340 

diarrhoea, 342 

eczema, 340 

eyes, 340 

gastric symptoms, 341, 377, 460 

gout, 341 

hypochondriasis, 338 

injuries, 241 

laparotomy, 241 

lumbago, 230 

mental symptoms, 248, 338, 339 

mouth, 46, 340 

ovaries, 339 

paralysis, 170, 322, 627 

pediculi, 340 

prolapsus uteri, 342 

sexual excesses, 193, 338 

skin, 339 

stomacace, 342 

stomach, 132, 341, 460 

styes, 340 

sycosis, 340 

syphilis, 340 

teeth, 340 

temperament, 338 

testicles, 352 
STICTA PULMONARIA 

asthma, 27 

coryza, 249 

nervous system, 79 
STILLINGIA 

antidotal relations, 587 

bones, 341 

hip-joint disease, 695 

ozaena, 341 

syphilis, 341, 695 
STRAMONIUM, 423, 628 

antidotal relation, 425 

asthma, 424 

chorea, 74, 428 

convulsions, 45, 183, 200, 423, 714 

delirium, 39, 255, 423, 439 

delirium tremens, 269 

diarrhoea, 425 

erysipelas, 425 

exanthemata, 424, 425 

face, 44, 45 

hiccough, 203 

hip-joint disease, 425 

hydrophobia, 423 

locomotor ataxia, 424 

loquacity, 39 

mania, 429 

measles, 424 

mental symptoms, 218, 255, 423, 424, 429 

nervous system, 79. 

nymphomania, 425. 

scarlatina, 302, 418, 425, 428, 443 

sleep, 443 

stuttering, 425 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



779 



STRAMONIUM (Continued) 

tetanus, 183 

tongue, 425, 454 

typhoid fever, 272, 431 

urine, suppression of, 271 
STRONTIANA CARBONICA, 653 

apoplexy, 653 

bones, 341, 546, 654 

caries of the femur, 545 

circulation, 653 

climacteric, 654 

diarrhoea, 341, 654 

headache, 548 

neuralgia, 625 

osteitis, 341 

skin, 654 

sprains, 654 
STRYCHNIA, 177 

tetanus, 177 
SULPHUR, 463 

abscess, 592 

acne, 195, 468, 475 

ankle-joints, 692, 732 

antidotal relations, 272, 712 

aphonia, 473, 485, 733 

atelectasis, 382 

boils, 468 

brain-fag, 128 

brain, softening of the, 184 

bronchitis, 473 

capillary bronchitis, 382 

cholera Asiatica, 478 

cholera infantum, 471, 672 

cicatrices, 544 

circulation, 135, 465 

climaxis, 466 

congestion of the chest, 465 

congestion of the head, 465 

conjunctivitis, 321, 473 

constipation, 220, 476 

constitution, 464 

continued fever, 557 

coryza, 473 

cough, 395 

crusta lactea, 167, 468 

debility, 460, 624 

diarrhoea, 250, 453, 474, 500, 685, 695 

dropsy, 104 

dysentery, 96, 466, 474, 598 

dyspepsia, 132, 476 

eczema, 464 

enuresis, 416 

epilepsy, 676 

erysipelas, 106, 417 

eyes, 321, 473, 494, 670 

face, 44, 132, 465 

female genital organs, 134, 478 

fever, 320, 466, 557 

fistulae, 452 

flatulence, 445 

flushes of heat, 466 

gastric symptoms, 185, 445, 636 

glands, 468 

gonorrhoea, 394, 478 

haemorrhoids, 187, 465, 476 

haemoptysis, 465 



SULPHUR (Continued) 

headache, 128, 581 

heart, in, 465 

hip- joint disease, 470 

hydrocephaloid, 471 

hydrocephalus, 104, 469 

hysteria, 471 

intermittent fever, 229, 467 

keratitis, 473 

laryngitis, 473 

liver, 186, 461, 476 

liver spots, 125 

lumbago, 230 

lungs, 469, 627, 740 

marasmus, 272, 468, 554, 645 

meningitis, 101, 104, 294, 409 

mental symptoms, 37, 471, 683 

mucous membranes, 473 

nasal catarrh, 473 

nervous system, 195, 471 

neuralgia, 467, 683 

neurasthenia, 624 

panaritium, 114 

paralysis, 236, 322, 472, 541 

peritonitis, 472 

pleurisy, 103, 472 

pneumonia, 51, 279, 466, 473 

prostatorrhoea, 459 

psora, 463 

rachitis, 468 

reaction, defective, 270, 463, 629 

retinal congestion, 602 

rheumatism, 353, 472 

scabies, 125, 475 

scarlatina, 418, 466, 524 

scrofula, 468, 494, 545, 591 

scrofulous ophthalmia, 473, 494, 495 

seminal emissions, 477 

septic infection, 467 

sexual excesses, 192, 339, 477 

sleep, 361, 461 

speech, 440 

spinal congestion, 471, 541 

spinal cord, 472, 541, 620 

spinal irritation, 471 

spinal weakness, 472 

stomach, 132 

suppressed eruptions, 101, 105, 464, 470 

synovitis, 297, 472 

tabes mesenterica, 470 

throat, 498 

tongue, 293 

tonsillitis, 414, 592 

tubercular meningitis, 104, 469 

tympanites, 261 

typhoid fever, 467 

ulcers, 62 

uterine diseases, 135 

vertebral caries, 573 

vomiting, 672 

white swelling, 470 
SULPHURIC ACID, 531 

alcoholism, 531 

ankle-joint, 698, 732 

aphthous sore mouth, 47, 532 

brain, 235 



780 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



SULPHURIC ACID (Continued) 

climaxis, 466 

cough, 152, 531 

diarrhoea, 532 

diphtheria, 532 

drunkards, complaints of, 58 

dyspepsia, 58, 532 

flushes of heat, 466 

general symptoms, 531 

haemorrhages, 532 

haemorrhoids, 58, 531 

injuries, 532, 662 

marasmus, 532 

mental symptoms, 531 

pemphigus, 87 

scarlatina, 524 

skin, 85, 87 

sprains, 662 

typhoid fever, 531 
SUMBUL 

heart, 225 
SWEET SPIRITS OF NITRE 

sensorial depression, 335, 527 

typhoid fever, 335, 336, 527 
SYMPHYTUM 

fractures, 241, 680 

injuries, 241 

TABACUM, 432 

antidotal relation, 432, 433 

apoplexy, 430 

asphyxia, 182, 433 

cholera, 432 

dyspepsia, 432 

gastric symptoms, 377, 432 

general symptoms of, 432 

heart, 432 

neuralgia, 432 

relation to Gelsemium, 176 

renal colic, 182, 433 

strangulated hernia, 433 

tetanus, 182 

vomiting, 387 
TARAXACUM, 244 

liver, 244 

tongue, 229, 244, 333 

typhoid fever, 228, 244 
TARANTULA, 75 

chorea, 74 

hysteria, 75, 78 

nervous system, 75, 714 

poisoning by, 75 

reaction, defective, 121 

uterus and ovaries, 76 
TARANTULA CUBENSIS, 80 

carbuncle, 80 
TELLURIUM 

herpes circinatus, 125, 705 

otitis media, 349, 412 

otorrhoea, 349, 412 
TEREBINTHINA, 305 

albuminuria, 66 

antidotal relations, 562 

Bright's disease, 254, 306 

bronchitis, 306 

capillary bronchitis, 382 



TEREBINTHINA (Continued) 

cough, 306 

dropsy, 66, 337 

haematuria, 66, 305 

hydrocephalus, 305 

kidneys and bladder, 92, 305, 559 

metritis, 305, 306 

peritonitis, 305, 306 

pneumonia, 305, 306 

post-scarlatinal dropsy, 66 

puerperal metritis, 415 

scarlatina, 305 

skin, 85, 86, 87 

tympanites, 271, 370 

typhoid fever, 66, 305 

urticaria, 107 

worms, 306 
TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM 

hiccough, 203 

polypi, 570 

post-nasal catarrh, 656 

worms, 203 
THAPSIA GARGANICA 

skin, 85, 86 
THEA 

stomach, 132, 377 
THEBAINE 

tetanus, 178 
THERIDION, 81 

antidotal relations, 81 

bones, 83 

headache, 82 

head symptoms, 81 

hemicrania, 129 

hysteria, 82 

neuralgia, 82 

ozaena, 83 

phthisis, 83 

post-nasal catarrh, 348 

sea-sickness, 82 

spinal irritation, 82 

sun, ill effects of the, 38 

syncope, 37 

vertigo, 37, 82 
THUJA OCCIDENTALS, 307 

balanorrhoea, 309 

blepharitis, 131 

ciliary neuralgia, 206 

circulation, 308, 309 

complementary relations, 311, 543 

condjdomata, 309, 340 

cough, 310 

diarrhoea, 310 

eyes, 131 

female genital organs, 309, 615 

gastric symptoms, 350 

gonorrhoea, 91, 309 

headache, 308 

history of, 307 

iritis, 310 

marasmus, 310 

mental symptoms, 258, 308, 424 

nails, 310, 520 

nervous system, 307 

neuralgia, 308 

orchitis, 310 

ozaena, 310 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



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THUJA OCCIDENTALIS (Continued) 

prostatitis, 309 

pseudo-cyesis, 308 

rheumatism, 309 

sclerotitis, 310 

scrofula, 310 

skin, 85, 688 

sun stroke, 38 

sweat, 653 

sycosis, 307, 309, 694, 726 

teeth, 48, 340 

tarsal tumors, 130 

urinary organs, 91 

vaccination, bad effects of, 307, 542 

variola, 308 

vertigo, 82 

warts, 309, 310 
TILIA EUROPEA 

puerperal metritis, 415 
TITANIUM 

hemiopia, 702 
TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE 

cough, 296 

torticollis, 296 
TRILLIUM PENDULUM 

epistaxis, 159 

menorrhagia. 673 

haemorrhages, 158, 159, 368 

UMBELLIFERAE, 447 
URTICA URENS 

agalactia, 313, 356 

urticaria, 31, 107 
USTILAGO 

crusta lactea, 168 

female genital organs, 145, 157 

haemoptysis, 301 

haemorrhages, 145, 157 

menses, 301 

metrorrhagia, 157, 158 

prolapsus uteri, 145 

testes, 352 
UVA URSI 

cystic calculus, 93 

cystitis, 93 

VALERIANA 

hysteria, 118, 199, 276 

lumbago, 230 

nervous system, 118, 121, 248 

nose, 276 

reaction, defective, 121, 270, 465, 629 

sciatica, 230 
VEGETABLE KINGDOM, 161 
VERATRIA, 178 

tetanus, 178 
VERATRUM ALBUM, 254 

abdominal organs, 254 

antidotal relation, 541 

cardiac debility, 257 

cholera Asiatica, 255 

cholera infantum, 156, 255, 285, 380 

cholera morbus, 255, 396, 554 

colic, 272, 287 

collapse, 69, 484, 315 

convulsions, 183, 201 



VERATRUM ALBUM (Continued) 

cough, 151 

cramps, 288 

delirium, 255 V 

diarrhoea, 176, 255, 272, 371 

face, 44 

fright, ill effects of, 272 

headache, 200, 354, 377, 701 

heart, 257 

hemicrania, 128 

hiccough, 203 

intermittent fever, 69 

intestinal symptoms, 583 

intussusception, 255, 287 

mental symptoms, 255, 272 

nervous system, 195, 248 

neurasthenia, 624 

nymphomania, 254, 429 

poisoning by, 254 

rheumatism, 249 

scarlatina, 635 

skin, 85 

syncope, 37, 38 

tetanus, 182 

typhoid fever, 252 

vertigo, 37 

whooping cough, 704 
VERATRUM VIRIDE, 257 

chorea, 257 

fever, 319 

heart, 257 

lungs, 257 

oesophagitis, 257, 414 

pneumonia, 257, 279, 319, 323 

puerperal convulsions, 257 

tetanus, 181 
VERBASCUM THAPSUS 

cough, 395 

neuralgia, 395, 419 

prosopalgia, 614 
VESPA, 97 

os uteri, ulceration of, 145 
VIBURNUM OPULUS 

abortion, 250 

female genital organs, 146 
VINCA MINOR, 167 

crusta lactea, 167 

haemorrhages, 167, 369 

menorrhagia, 167 

plica polonica, 167 
VIOLA ODORATA 

rheumatism, 297 
VIOLA TRICOLOR 

crusta lactea, 167 

polypi, 369 

urine, 167 

WYETHIA 

hay fever, 558 

XANTHOXYLUM FRAXINEUM 

after-pains, 356 

YERBA SANTA 
lungs, 627 
phthisis, 215, 627, 718 



782 



INDEX OF REMEDIES. 



YUCCA FILAMENTOSA 
asthma, 718 
biliousness, 299, 313 
gonorrhoea, 313 
skin, 313 
tongue, 454 

ZANTHORRHIZA, 451 
ZINCUM METALLICUM, 631 

amblyopia, 637 

antidotal relations, 631 

asthma, 633 

backache, 361 

brain, 367, 633 

brain, softening of the, 636 

cholera infantum, 635 

chorea, 634 

colic, 637 

complementary relations, 631 

corneal opacity, 637 

cough, 638 

dentition, 633 

dysuria, 638 

exanthemata, 424 

eyes, 637 

female genital organs, 638 

gastric symptoms, 637 

granular lids, 637 

headache, 635 

heart, 636, 656 

hydrocephaloid, 635, 680 

hypochondriasis, 638 

inimical relation, 543, 631 

liver, 637 

locomotor ataxia, 600 

measles, 425, 633 

meningitis, 102, 337, 633, 634 

menses, 633, 638 



ZINCUM METALLICUM (Continued) 

nervous symptoms, 79, 632 

neurasthenia, 541 

ovaries, 65, 633, 638 

paralysis, 636 

poisoning by, 631, 632 

prosopalgia, 637 

pterygium, 637 

rheumatism, 634 

scarlatina, 302, 633, 634 

sexual excesses, 633 

sleep, 443 

spermatorrhoea, 638 

spinal cord, 632, 636 

spinal irritation, 330, 633, 636 

suppressed eruptions, 101, 302, 367, 443, 
633. 

typhoidal conditions, 102 

urine, 637 

wine, aggravation from, 632, 634 
ZINCUM OXIDATUM 

hypochondriasis, 44S 

reaction, defective, 121 

typhoid fever, 102 
ZINCUM SULPHURICUM 

corneal opacities, 637 

dysentery, 96 

granular lids, 637 
ZINC, VALERIANATE OF 

hysteria, 199 
ZINGIBER 

asthma, 191 

urine, 271 
ZIZIA 

chorea, 74, 146 

female genital organs, 146 

mental symptoms, 146 






THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



ABDOMINAL SYMPTOMS 

arsenicum, 488 

cascarilla, 312 

cinchona, 488 

colchicum, 253 

colocynth, 286 

nux vomica, 136 

oleander, 165 

podophyllum, 453 

veratrum album, 254 
ABORTION 

aconite, 325 

actea racemosa, 328 

chamomilla, 250 

digitalis, 388 

gelsemium, 176 

hamamelis, 328 

ipecac, 328 

kali carb., 737 

lycopodium, 328 

opium, 484 

plumbum, 622 

sabina, 305 

secale, 154 

sepia, 146 

viburnum, 250 
ABSCESSES 

belladonna, 419, 592 

carbo veg., 483 

cinchona, 484 

hepar, 592, 684 

lachesis, 492 

mercurius, 592 

silicea, 543, 592 

sulphur, 592 
ABSCESS OF LUNGS 

lachesis, 51 

sulphur, 51 
ABSCESS OF TEETH 

hepar, 46 

lachesis, 46 

mercurius, 46 

silicea, 46 
ACNE 

carbo animalis, 141 

kali bich., 724 

kreosote, 196 

lachesis, 196 

ledum, 195 

nux vomica, 195 

sanguinaria, 280 

sulphur, 195, 468, 475 
ADENOMATA 

conium, 449 
AFTER-PAINS 

actea racemosa, 328 



AFTER-PAINS (Continued) 

caulophyllum, 356 

chamomilla, 356 

cuprum, 356 

Pulsatilla, 356 

xanthoxylum, 356 
AGALACTIA 

agnus castus, 356 

causticum, 356, 734 

Pulsatilla, 356 

ricinis communis, 313, 356 

urtica urens, 313, 356 
ANGINA PECTORIS 

actea recemosa, 329 

argentum nitricum, 608 

arsenicum, 559 

tabacum, 432 
ANKLE-JOINT 

carbo animalis, 676 

causticum, 692, 698, 732 

natrum carb., 676, 692 

natrum hypochlor., 692 

natrum mur., 692 

pinus sylvestris, 692 

sepia, 676 

silicea, 732 

sulphur, 692, 732 

sulphuric acid, 692, 698, 732 
ANTIDOTAL RELATIONS, 24 

aconite, 326 

alumina, 616, 620 

ammonium carb., 658 

anacardium, 222 

antimonium tart., 583 

apis, 114 

argentum nitricum, 272, 579 

arnica, 658 

arsenicum, 541 

asafoetida, 450, 587 

aurum, 586, 600 

belladonna, 516, 600, 628 

bryonia, 303, 617 

camphor, 116, 481, 658 

cantharis, 93 

carbo veg., 481 

castor oil, 313 

cepa,' 380 

chamomilla, 266, 616, 644 

chlorine, 511 

cicuta, 433 

cinchona, 372, 375, 55*. 586 

colchicum, 254 

colocynth, 288 

croton tiglium, 222 

cuprum, 628 

dulcamara, 586 



7 8 4 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



ANTIDOTAL RELATIONS (Continued) 

ferrum, 639 

gelsemium, 176 

glonoin, 438 

graphites, 492 

hepar, 536, 543, 585, 600, 631, 688, 712 

ignatia, 200, 631 

iodine, 508, 587 

kali brom., 713 

kali chlor., 586 

kali hydr., 556, 716, 719 

lachesis, 62, 587 

ledum, 114 

magnesia carb., 644 

mercury, 536, 585, 589, 600 

mezereum, 587 

moscnus, 116 

muriatic acid, 272, 525 

natrum mur., 696 

nitric acid, 535, 536, 586 

nux vomica, 136, 266, 492, 562 

oleander, 167 

ophidia, 35 

opium, 266, 268, 272 

petroleum, 311, 500 

phosphorus, 562, 569 

plantago, 433, 644 

plumbum, 614, 620, 621 

Pulsatilla, 343, 644 

rheum, 644 

rhus tox., 222, 224 

sarsaparilla, 272 

selenium, 462 

sepia, 125, 432 

silicea, 543 

staphisagria, 340, 586 

stillingia sylvatica, 587 . 

stramonium, 425, 628 

sulphur, 272, 712 

sulphuric acid, 532 

tabacum, 432, 433 

terebinthina, 562 

theridion, 81 

veratrum alb., 541 

zinc, 631 
ALBUMINURIA 

apis, 66 

arsenicum, 67, 559 

aurum, 603 

equisetum, 90 

formica, 86 

glonoin, 437 

helonias, 358 

lachesis, 65, 66 

terebinthina, 66 
ALCOHOLISM 

{See also drunkards, complaints of.) 

ranunculus bulbosus, 332 

sulphuric acid, 531 
ALIMENTARY CANAL 

aloes, 478 

bryonia, 298 

cantharis, 95 

lachesis, 51 

nux vomica, 189 

phosphorus, 567 



ALOPECIA 

selenium, 461 
AMBLYOPIA 

baryta carb., 652 

phosphorus, 574 

zincum, 637 
AMENORRHOEA 

aconite, 674 

actea spicata, 674 

apis, 112 

belladonna, 674 

calcarea ostr., 673 

castoreum, 117 

gelsemium, 674 

glonoin, 673 

hamamelis, 301 

kali carb., 739 

lycopodium, 674 

natrum mur., 739 

phosphorus, 569 

Pulsatilla, 355 
ANAEMIA 

(See also Chlorosis.) 

alumina, 618 

cinchona, 366 

ferrum, 367, 483, 640 

kali carb., 736 

manganum, 641 

natrum mur., 698 

Pulsatilla, 344 

sepia, 347 
ANALYSIS OF DRUGS, 18 
ANASARCA 

(See Dropsy.) 
ANEURISM 

baryta carb., 650 
ANGER, ILL EFFECTS OF 

causticum, 286 

chamomilla, 286, 33$ 

colocynth, 286, 339 

staphisagria, 286, 339 
ANUS 

anacardium, 165 

belladonna, 60 

causticum, 60 

cocculus, 60, 61 

ignatia, 60, 203 

kali bi., 60 

mezereum, 60 

natrum mur., 60, 705 

nitric acid, 60, 534 

opium, 60 

plumbum, 60 
AORTITIS 

arsenicum, 486 

carbo veg., 486 

cuprum, 486 

lachesis, 486 
APHONIA AND HOARSENESS 

bothrops lanceolatus, 33 
APHONIA 

ammonium caust., 662 

aurum triphyl., 210, 462 

carbo veg., 210, 462, 484, 733 

causticum, 462, 485, 732 

eupatorium perf., 485, 733 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



785 



APHONIA (Continued) 

gelsemium, 170 

graphites, 733 

kali carb., 739 

nitric acid, 536 

phosphorus, 462, 485, 570 

Pulsatilla, 360 

rhus tox., 733 

sanguinaria, 280 

selenium, 210, 462, 733 

senega, 296 

spongia, 462 

sulphur, 473, 485, 733 
APHTHOUS SORE MOUTH 

apis, 47 

arsenicum, 47 

arum triphyllum, 710 

baptisia, 47 

borax, 710 

bryonia, 301, 709 

carbo veg., 47 

chlorine, 511 

helleborus, 48 

iodine, 47 

lachesis, 47, 48 

lycopodium, 48 

mercurius, 47, 710 

muriatic acid, 47 

natrum hypochlor., 48 

nitric acid, 47, 48 

Phytolacca, 48 

salicylic acid, 48 

staphisagria, 47 

sulphuric acid, 47, 532 
APOPLECTIC CONGESTION 

coffea, 384 
APOPLEXY 

apis, 100, 269 

arnica, 242, 269 

baryta carb., 268, 650 

belladonna, 268, 269 

causticum, 731 

glonoin, 437 

helleborus, 269 

hyoscyamus, 269 

lachesis, 2b6, 269 

nux vomica, 269 

opium, 100, 268 

rhus tox., 269 

strontiana carb., 653 

tabacum, 430 
APOPLEXY OF THE RETINA 

arnica, 43 

crotalus, 43 

glonoin, 436 

hamamelis, 43 

lachesis, 43 

phosphorus, 43 
ARTHRALGIA 

argentum met., 599, 611 
ARTHRITIC HEADACHE 

nux vomica, 128 

sepia, 128 
ARTHRITIS DEFORMANS 

calcarea carb., 677 

50 



ASCARIDES 

ignatia, 203 

indigo, 203 

spigelia, 206 

teucrium, 203 
ASCITES 

acetic acid, 104 

apocynum cannab., 104 

lycopodium, 444 
ASPHYXIA 

ammonium carb., 661 

arnica, 158, 273, 659 

bovista, 158, 273, 659 

hydrocyanic acid, 433 

tabacum, 182, 433 
ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM 

antimonium tart., 582 

laurocerasus, 583 
ASTHENOPIA 

alumina, 619, 655 

ammoniacum gummi, 449 

apis, 114 

argentum nitricum, 609 

artemisia vulgaris, 243 

belladonna, 449 

cina, 247 

cinchona, 369 

cyclamen, 130 

jaborandi, 130 

kali carb., 130 

lilium triginum, 130 

lithium carb., 655 

natrum mur., 130, 702 

phosphorus, 574 

Pulsatilla, 130 

ruta, 449 

sepia, 129, 130 
ASTHMA 

ambra grisea, 152 

antimonium tart., 633 

apis, no 

aralia racemosa, 727 

argentum nitricum, 608 

arsenicum, 381, 558, 727 

baryta carb., 652 

bromine, 507 

cactus, 633 

cadmium sulph., 633 

caladium seguin., 214 

capsicum, 435 

carbo veg., 191, 485 

cuprum, 381 

drosera, 27 

ferrum met., 639 

grindelia robusta, 633 

ipecacuanha, 380, 558 

kali bich., 727 

kali chlor., 633 

lachesis, 51 

lobelia, 381 

lycopodium, 191 

mephitis, 27 

natrum sulph., 694 

nux vomica, 190 

pothos foetida, 215 

pulmo vulpis, 29 



786 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



ASTHMA (Continued) 

rumex crispus, 27 

sepia, 633 

stramonium, 424 

sticta, 27 

yucca, 718 

zincum, 633 

zingiber, 191 
ATROPHY OF THE RETINA 

nux vomica, 189 
AWKWARDNESS 

aethusa, 102 

apis mellifica, 102 

ignatia, 102 

natrum mur., 102 

nux vomica, 102 

BACKACHE 

aesculus hipp., 'J06 

agaricus, 361 

berberis, 361 

cannabis indica, '61 

chelidonium, 281 

chenopodium, 282 

cobalt, 193, 361, 632, 636 

kali carb., 738, 739 

lobelia syph., 282 

nux vomica, 194 

picric acid, 134, 361, 539 

Pulsatilla, 361 

rhus tox., 361 

sepia, 361, 636 

valerian, 361 

zincum, 361 
B ALAin ORRHOEA 

digitalis, 394 

mercurius corrosivus, 394 

mercurius vivus, 311 

nitric acid, 310 

thuja, 309 
BILIARY CALCULI 

belladonna, 192 

berberis, 192, 452 

cinchona, 192 

podophyllum, 454 
BILIOUSNESS 

artemesia tridentata, 244 

chamomilla, 249, 299 

yucca filamentosa, 299, 313 
BILIOUS REMITTENT FEVER 

gelsemium, 173 

podophyllum, 453 
BLADDER 

arsenicum, 271 

berberis, 451 

cantharis, 88 

cina, 247 

causticum, 271 

colocynth, 287 

conium, 91 

dulcamara, 434 

erigeron, 92 

ferrum phos., 92 

hepar, 687 

hyoscyamus, 271 

lachesis, 416 



BLADDER (Continued) 

lithium carb., 655 

nux vomica, 192 

opium, 271 

Pulsatilla, 92 

senecio, 359 
BLADDER, STONE IN THE 

(See » esical Calculus.) 
BLEPHARITIS 

alumina, 619 

argentum nitr., 609 

euphrasia, 396 

graphites, 130, 494, 619 

kreosote, 609 

mercurius, 397, 593, 609 

petroleum, 499 

sepia, 130 

thuja, 131 
BLEPHAROSPASMUS 

agaricus, 189 

euphrasia, 189 

natrum mur., 189 

rhus tox., 235 

nux vomica, 189 
BLOOD 

alumina, 618 

ammonium carb., 658 

arsenicum, 552 

belladonna, 189 

bryonia, 289 

carbo veg., 481 

chininum sulph., 365 

kali carb., 736 

lycopodium, 441 

phosphorus, 575 

quinine, 365 

secale, 154 

sepia, 124 
BLOODVESSELS 

arnica, 238 

secale, 154, 650 
BOILS 

arnica, 242 

arsenicum, 561 

belladonna, 419 

calcarea sulph., 667 

carbo veg., 483 

hepar, 684 

psorinum, 150 

silicea, 543 

sulphur, 468 
BONES 

angustura, 545 

aranea diadema, 81 

asafoetida, 119, 450, 545 

aurum, 604 

calcarea fluorica, 519 

calcarea ostrearum, 676 

calcarea phosphorica, 241, 680 

chloride of gold and platinum, 341 

euphorbium, 313 

fluoric acid, 519 

Gettysburg spring water, 341, 545 

kali hydriodicum, 341 

mercurius, 341 

phosphoric acid, 530 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



787 



BONES (Continued) 

phosphorus, 545, 573 

platinum mur., 545, 614 

silicea, 519, 544 

staphisagria, 340 

stillingia, 341 

stroritiana carb., 341, 545, 654 

Symphytum, 241 

theridion. 83 
BOWELS, OBSTRUCTION OF 

opium, 272 
BRAIN 

aconite, 320 

argentum nitricum, 605 

baryta carb., 651 

baryta mur., 650 

belladonna, 235, 320, 335, 407 

cantharis, 93 

carbo animalis, 235 

causticum, 651 

cinchona, 235 

digitalis, 393 

glonoin, 320 

hyoscyamus, 427 

natrum mur., 129 

plumbum, 622 

rhus tox., 235 

spigelia, 235 

stramonium, 425 

sulphur, 471 

sulphuric acid, 235 

zincum, 367, 633 
BRAIN, CONGESTION OF THE 

amyl nitrite, 320 

belladonna, 320, 409 

glonoin, 320, 437 
BRAIN-FAG 

kali bromatum, 714 

natrum mur., 128 

nux vomica, 128, 540 

phosphoric acid, 540 

phosphorus, 540 

picric acid, 128, 538 

sepia, 128 

sulphur, 128 
BRAIN, INFLAMMATION OF THE 

arsenicum, 94 

arum triphyllum, 210 

belladonna, 94, 409, 437 

camphor, 94 

cantharis, 93 

glonoin. 437 

hyoscvamus, 426 
BRAiN, PARALYSIS OF THE 

hydrocyanic acid, 336, 538 

hyoscyamus, 268, 442 

lachesis, 268 

lycopodium, 442 

opium, 268 
BRAIN, SCLEROSIS OF THE 

plumbum, 622 
BRAIN, SOFTENING OF THE 

ambra grisea, 151 

nux vomica, 564 

phosphorus, 184, 564 

picric acid, 184 



BRAIN, SOFTENING OF (Continued) 

piper methysticum, 385 

sulphur, 184 

zincum, 636 
BRIGHT'S DISEASE 

arsenicum, 559 

cantharis, 88 

colchicum, 254 

hepar, 685 

kali hydr., 718 

lachesis, 65 

phosphorus, 569 

terebinthina, 254, 306 
BRONCHIAL CATARRH AND BRON- 
CHITIS 

ammonium carb., 660 

ammonium mur., 664 

balsam of Peru, 215 

bryonia, 296, 570 

calcarea pJaos., 680 

capsicum, 374, 546 

carbo animalis, 490 

carbo veg., 490 

dracontium, 215 

ipecacuanha, 381 

jaborandi, 686 

kali bichromicum, 727 

kali carbonicum, 740 

lachesis, 50 

lycopodium, 445 

natrum arsenicosum, 707 

phosphorus, 190, 570, 571 

pix liquida, 215 

Pulsatilla, 361 

sanguinaria, 374 

sulphur, 473 

terebinthina, 306 

yerba santa, 215 
BRONCHORRHAGIA 

carbo veg., 481 
BUBOES 

alumina, 620 

badiaga, 31, 490 

belladonna, 391 

carbo animalis, 31, 489 

hepar, 686 
BURNS 

arsenicum, 97 

cantharis, 97 

carbolic acid, 97 

sapo soda, 97 

soda bicarbonate, 97, 689 

CALLOSITIES 

antimonium crudum, 2^2, 579 
CANCER 

arsenicum, 552, 561 

arsenicum iod., 561 

belladonna, 561 

bromine, 503 

carbo animalis, 490 

carbo veg., 483 

cicuta virosa, 451 

clematis, 561 

conium, 449, 561 

hydrastis, 510, 561 



788 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



CANCER (Continued) 
iodine, 510 
kreosote, 136 
lachesis, 71 
lapis albus, 510 
morphia, 265 
phosphorus, 568, 575 
CAPILLARY BRONCHITIS 

antimonium tart., 381, 581, 686 
baryta carb., 582 
chelidonium, 263 
hepar, 686 

ipecacuanha, 381, 582 
kali carb., 740 
lycopodium, 382 
phosphorus, 381 
sulphur, 382 
terebinthina, 382 
CARBUNCLE 

anthracinum, 80, 232, 561 
arsenicum, 232, 552, 561 
carbo veg., 232, 443, 501 
lachesis, 71, 80, 561 
Phytolacca, 561 
rhus tox., 22,2 
silicea, 80, 543 
tarantula Cubensis, 80 
CARDIAC DEBILITY 

veratrum album, 257 
CARIES OF BONES 
angustura, 545 
aranea diadema, 81 
calcarea fluorica, 519 
fluoric acid, 519 
Gettsysburg salts, 545 
nitric acid, 535 
phosphorus, 545 
platina muriatica, 545 

silicea, 544 

strontiana carb., 545 

sulphur, 468 
CATALEPSY 

curare, 179 

piper methysticum, 386 
CATARACT 

baryta carbonica, 575 

calcarea ostr., 575 

conium, 575 

lycopodium, 443 

magnesia carb., 646 

magnesia mur., 646 

natrum mur., 575, 697 

phosphorus, 575 

secale, 575 

sepia, 130 

silicea, 575 
CATARRHAL FEVER 

mercurius, 591 
CATARRH 

(See also Mucous Membranes.) 

arsenicum, 380 

arundo maur., 661 

bryonia, 294 

carbo veg., 484, 662 

causticum, 662 

chlorine, 511 



CATARRH (Continued) 
gelsemium, 173 
hepar, 685 

kali hydriodicum, 717 
laurocerasus, 662 
natrum arsenicosum, 706 
natrum carb., 693 
natrum mur., 698, 702 
nitric acid, 534 
ranunculus sceleratus, 333 
senecio, 359 
CELLULITIS 
apis, 232 

rhus tox., 232, 234 
silicea, 543 
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS 
ammonium carb., 659 
cocculus, 263 
digitalis, 393 
gelsemium, 172 
oxalic acid, 540 
CERVIX UTERI 

aurum metallicum, 139 
aurum muriaticum, 139 
aurum muriaticum natron., 139 
carbo animalis, 140 
gelsemium, 139, 175, 421 
graphites, 142 
kreosote, 136 
mitchella, 145 
murex, 135 
natrum carb., 693 
sepia, 139 
CHANCRE 

corallium rubrum, 311 
kali hydriodicum, 64 
lachesis, 62 
lycopodium, 63 
mercurius biniod., 597 
mercurius protoiod., 597 

nitric acid, 63, 535 
CHANCROID 

jacaranda, 311 

mercurius, 596 

thuja, 309 
CHANGE OF LIFE 

(See Climaxis.) 
CHARCOAL FUMES, ASPHYXIA FROM 

ammonium carb., 659 

arnica, 158, 273, 659 

bovista, 158, 273, 659 

opium, 273 
CHEMOSIS 

rhus tox., 113 
CHEST PAINS 

angustura, 282 

anisum stellatum, 83, 306 

chenopodium, 282 

fluoric acid, 306 

guaiacum, 306 

kali carb., 306 

lilium tigrinum, 134, 306, 346 

lobelia syphilitica, 282 

myrtus com., 306 

oxalic acid, 306 

phosphorus, 306 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



789 



CHEST PAINS (Continued) 

pix liquida, 306 

Pulsatilla nut., 306, 361 

Pulsatilla prat., 331, 34s 

ranunculus bulbosus, 282 

sarsaparilla, 306 

silicea, 306 

sulphur, 306 

sumbul, 306 

theridion, 306 
CHLOROSIS 

(See also Anaemia.) 

alumina, 617, 618 

argentum met., 599 

calcarea phosphorica, 680 

cuprum, 629 

cyclamen, 359 

ferrum, 493, 640 

graphites, 493 

manganum, 641 

natrum mur., 700 

Pulsatilla, 344, 494 

sepia, 124, 347 
CHOLERA ASIATICA 

arsenicum, 156, 553 

camphor, 156, 256, 484, 629 

carbo veg., 156, 380, 484 

colchicum, 59, 253 

cuprum, 628 

hydrocyanic acid, 538 

jatropha curcas, 256, 312 

lachesis, 59 

secale, 155, 554 

sulphur, 478 

tabacum, 432 

veratrum album, 255 
CHOLERA INFANTUM 

aconite, 324 

argentum nitr., 610 

arnica, 22, 242 

arsenicum, 555 

belladonna, 411, 419 

calcarea ostr., 671 

calcarea phos., 300, 679 

cinchona, 366, 380 

colocynth, 287 

croton tiglium, 285 

elaterium, 284 

ferrum, 642 

ferrum phos., 159, 270, 642 

gnaphalium, 379 

helleborus, 337 

ipecacuanha, 378 

kali bromatum, 380 

opium, 270 

podophyllum, 59, 285 

psorinum, 149 

secale, 155 

sulphur, 471, 672 

veratrum alb., 156, 255, 285, 380 

zincum, 635 
CHOLERA MORBUS 

argentum nitricum, 629 

arsenicum, 156 

camphor, 156, 380 

euphorbia corollata, 312 



CHOLERA MORBUS (.Continued) 

iris versicolor, 256, 351, 396 

podophyllum, 256 

secale, 155 

veratrum alb., 255, 396, 554 
CHORDEE 

agaricus, 541 

ambra, 541 

cannabis indica, 90 

cannabis sativa, 89 

cantharis, 89, 96, 541 

capsicum, 541 

digitalis, 391 

mygale, 541 

opium, 541 

petroselinum, 541 

physostigma, 541 

platina, 541 

zincum, 541 
CHOREA 

actea rac, 74 

agaricus muscarius, 74, 79 

arsenicum, 79 

belladonna, 77 

causticum, 77, 734 

crocus, 76, 79 

hyoscyamus, 77, 428 

ignatia, 74, 77 

mygale, 73 

natrum mur., 699 

phosphorus, 565 

sepia, 146 

stramonium, 74, 428 

tarentula, 74 

veratrum viride, 257, 428 

zincum, 634 

zizia, 74, 146 
CHOROIDITIS 

phosphorus, 574 
CHOROIDO-RETINITIS 

nux vomica, 189 
CICATRICES 

fluoric acid, 520 

graphites, 141, 496 

Phytolacca, 141, 544 

silicea, 543 

sulphur, 544 
CINCHONISM, 366 
CIRCULATION 

ammonium mur., 662 

amyl nitrite, 278 

bovista, 157 

coffea, 385 

ferrum, 639 

gelsemium, 168 

glonoin, 278, 435 

graphites, 493 

lachesis, 65 

lilium tigrinum, 127, 346 

Pulsatilla, 345 

rhus tox., 223 

sanguinaria, 276, 278 

secale, 154 

sepia, 123, 124 

strontiana carb., 643 

sulphur, 135, 465 



79Q 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



CIRCULATION (Continued) 

thuja, 308 
CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER 

aurum, 36, 603 

lycopodium, 444 

muriatic acid, 525 
CLERGYMAN'S SORE THROAT 

arum triphyllum, 210 
CLIMAXIS 

amyl nitrite, 31, 278, 466 

glonoin, 278 

lachesis, 36, 65, 278, 466 

sanguinaria, 276, 278 

strontiana carb., 654 

sulphur, 466 

sulphuric acid, 466 
COLIC 

aconite, 287, 324 

aethusa cynapium, 710 

alumina, 620, 621 

belladonna, 419, 621 

borax, 710 

bovista, 287 

castoreum, 117 

causticum, 735 

chamomilla, 339 

cinchona, 272 

colocynth, 285, 324, 339, 419, 644 

croton tiglium, 287, 312 

cuprum, 629 

cyclamen, 263, 360 

dulcamara, 434 

ipecacuanha, 378 

lycopodium, 272 

magnesia carb., 644 

nux vomica, 186, 272, 62.1 

opium, 272, 621 

platina, 621 

plumbum, 621 

rhus tox., 234 

staphisagria, 248, 339, 341 

veratrum album, 272, 287 

zincum, 637 
COLLAPSE 

aconite, 315 

arsenicum, 69 

camphor, 69, 484, 629 

carbo veg., 156, 373, 484, 566 

cuprum, 70, 629 

digitalis, 69 

hydrocyanic acid, 69, 538 

secale, 69, 156 

veratrum album, 69, 315, 484 
CONCORDANT REMEDIES, 24 
CONDYLOMATA 

cinnabaris, 311 

euphrasia, 311, 398 

jacaranda, 311 

lycopodium, 63 

nitric acid, 310 

sabina, 311 

staphisagria, 311, 340 

thuja, 309, 340 
CONGESTION OF THE BRAIN 

(See Brain.) 



CONGESTION OF THE CHEST 

ferrum phos., 159, 642 

sulphur, 465 
CONGESTION OF THE HEAD 

aurum, 601 

sulphur, 465 
CONGESTIONS 

aconite, 320 

aurum, 599, 603 

belladonna, 407, 591 

gelsemium, 169 

mercurius, 591 

sulphur, 456 
CONJUNCTIVITIS 

aconite, 321, 397 

apis, 113, 217 

argentum nitricum, 347 

arnica, 397 

arsenicum, 113, 397 

belladonna, 412 

bromine, 507 

calcarea ostrearum, 235 

euphrasia, 397 

ipecacuanha, 383 

mercurius cor., 347 

mercurius viv., 397 

natrum mur., 131 

nux vomica, 189 

Pulsatilla, 130, 347 

rhus tox., 113, 235, 397 

sanguinaria, 280 

sepia, 130 

sulphur, 321, 473 
CONNECTIVE TISSUE 

sepia, 125 
CONSTIPATION 

aletris farinosa, 359 

alumina, 186, 271, 461, 617 

ambra, 152 

ammonium mur., 664 

anacardium, 219 

antimonium crud., 578 

bryonia, 186, 271, 298, 461, 617, 686 

carbo veg., 186, 486 

cascarilla, 312, 497 

collinsonia, 188 

conium, 449 

fel tauri, 29 

fel vulpi, 29 

graphites, 497 

hepar, 53, 686 

hydrastis, 360 

ignatia, 220 

lac caninum, 28 

lac defloratum, 28 

lachesis, 52, 54 

lycopodium, 186, 444 

natrum carb., 690 

natrum mur., 704 

nux vomica, 184, 186, 220, 445, 686 

opium, 186, 271, 461 

phosphorus, 566 

platina, 614 

plumbum, 271, 461, 614, 622 

podophyllum, 454 

Pulsatilla, 351 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



791 



CONSTIPATION (Continued) 

selenium, 460 

sepia, 220, 705 

silicea, 546 

sulphur, 220, 476 

zincum, 637 
CONSTITUTION 

alumina, 617 

ammonium carb., 657 

ammonium mur., 662, 657 

aranea diadema, 80 

baryta carb., 649 

borax, 708 

calcarea ostrearum, 493, 668, 677 

calcarea phos., 678 

carbo animalis, 489 

carbo veg., 481 

causticum, 729 

colocynth, 195 

ferrum, 637 

graphites, 493 

kali bichromicum, 720 

lycopodium, 440 

magnesia carb., 644 

magnesium mur., 646 

mercurius, 54 

natrum sulph., 694 

nux vomica, 183 

phosphorus, 562, 570 

psorinum, 148 

secale, 154 

selenium, 460 

sepia, 122 

silicea, 542, 677 

spongia, 512 

sulphur, 464 

thuja, 307 
CONTINUED FEVER 

(See also Fever.) . 

aconite, 316 

arsenicum, 316, 557 

sulphur, 557 
CONVULSIONS 

arsenicum, 44 

artemisia vulg., 624 

belladonna, 201, 40S, 420 

calcarea ostr., 669 

camphor, 45, 94 

chamomilla, 201 

cicuta, 44, 182, 451 

cina, 246, 624 

cocculus, 262 

colchicum, 59 

cuprum, 201, 629, 630, 634 

ergot, 153 

glonoin, 201, 437 

helleborus, 45 

hydrocyanic acid, 44, 45, 433, 538 

hyoscyamus, 44, 45, 201, 428 

ignatia, 378 

ipecacuanha, 273, 378 

kali bromatum, 761, 713 

lycopodium, 44 

moschus, 116 

oenanthe crocata, 428 

opium, 200, 201, 270 



CONVULSIONS (Continued) 

Phytolacca, 179 

platina, 339, 614 

podophyllum, 59 

secale, 153, 201, 437 

stannum, 625 

stramonium, 45, 93, 200, 423, 714 

strychnine, 177 

veratrum album, 183, 201 
CORNEA, OPACITY OF THE 

alumen, 669 

apis, 669 

calcarea ostrearum, 669 

cuprum, 669 

kali bi., 669 

natrum sulph., 699 

saccharum offic, 669 

zincum, 637 

zincum sulph., 637 
CORNEA, ULCERS OF THE 

calcarea ostrearum, 669 

kali bichromicum, 726 

mercurius corrosivus, 593 

mercurius protoiod., 593 

mercurius vivus, 593 

natrum carb., 693 

nitric acid, 535, 670 

podophyllum, 453 

Pulsatilla, 347 

silicea, 545 
CORYZA 

(See also Nasal Catarrh.) 

aconite, 294, 326 

ammonium carb., 661 

ammonium caust., 662 

ammonium mur., 661, 664 

anacardium, 221 

arsenicum, 380, 557 

arsenicum jod., 557 

belladonna, 326 

bromine, 294 

bryonia, 294 

cepa, 380, 398 

chamomilla, 249 

chlorine, 511 

cinchona, 295, 326 

dulcamara, 434 

euphrasia, 380, 397 

gelsemium, 173 

hepar, 684, 685 

ipecacuanha, 380 

kali bichromicum, 726 

kali carb., 739 

kali hydriodicum, 717 

lachesis, 49, 294 

mercurius, 190, 594 

natrum ars., 706 

natrum carb., 693 

natrum mur., 702 

nitric acid, 534 

nux vomica, 190, 249, 326, 594 

penthorum sedoides, 348 

phosphorus, 380 

Pulsatilla, 190, 348 

quillaya, 174 

ranunculus seel., 333 



792 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



CORYZA (Continued) 

rhus tox., 234 

sambucus, 249 

sanguinaria, 280 

sticta pulmonaria, 249 

sulphur, 473 

verbascum, 395 
COUGH 

actea racemosa, 308 

alumina, 619 

ambra grisea, 151, 152, 546, 661 

ammonium carb., 661 

ammonium mur., 662, 664 

anacardium, 513 

angustura, 152 

antimonium tart., 270, 582, 583 

apis, 1 1 1 

arnica, 152, 732 

arsenicum, in, 152 

baryta carb., 652 

belladonna, in, 421, 570 

borax, 710 

bryonia, in, 296, 693, 703 

calcarea ostr., 421 

capsicum, 374 

carbo animalis, 490 

carbo veg., 112, 491 

causticum, 421, 703, 732 

cepa, 422 

chamomilla, in, 249 

cimex, 152 

conium, 361, 448 

crotalus horridus, in 

drosera, 273, 395, 732 

ferrum, 641 

gelsemium, 173, 174 

graphites, 498 

hepar, 234, 513, 683 

hydrocyanic acid, 538 

hyoscyamus, in, 361, 427 

ignatia, in, 201 

iodine, 509 

kali bich., 662, 727 

lcali carb., 732, 740 

lachesis, in, 152, 421 

laurocerasus, 361, 538, 732 

lithium carb., 655 

lycopodium, 546 

manganum, 609 

mentha piperita, 428 

mezereum, 234 

natrum ars., 707 

natrum carb., 693 

natrum mur., 427, 703, 732 

nitric acid, 536 

nux vomica, in, 190 

oleum jecoris, 29 

opium, 270 

petroleum, 499 

phosphorus, 151, 421, 546, 570, 571 

phosphoric acid, 430 

Pulsatilla, 234, 536, 732 

rhus tox., 234, 546 

rumex, in, 421, 427, 546, 570 

sanguinaria, 152, 234, 278, 279, 374 

scilla, 546, 703, 732 



COUGH (Continued) 

senecio, 359 

senega, 296 

sepia, 732 

silicea, 546 

spongia, 395, 506, 513 

sulphur, 395 

sulphuric acid, 152, 531 

terebinthina, 306 

thuja, 310 

trifolium praetense, 296 

veratrum alb., 151 

verbascum, 395 

zinc, 638 
CRAMPS 

cholos terrapinae, 288 

colocynth, 288 

nux vomica, 288 

veratrum album, 288 
CRETINISM 

baryta carb., 679 

calcarea phos., 679 
CROUP 

aconite, 323, 505, 684 

antimonium tart., 505 

arsenicum, 560 

bromine, 504, 684 

cf.lcarea sulphurica, 667 

hepar, 324, 506, 684, 723 

iodine, 506 

kali bichromicum, 595 

kaolin, 505, 506, 723 

lachesis, 723 

mercurius cyanatus, 723 

phosphorus, 570 

sanguinaria, 280 

spongia, 323, 506, 684 
CRUSTA LACTEA 

arctium lappa, 168 

arsenicum iod., 168 

graphites, 168 

mezereum, 168 

natrum muriaticum, 705 

nux juglans, 168 

oleander, 167 

psorinum, 149 

staphisagria, 168, 340 

sulphur, 167, 468 

ustilago, 168 

vinca minor, 167 

viola tricolor, 167 
CYANOSIS NEONATORUM 

digitalis, 389 
CYSTITIS 

apis, 93 

cantharis, 88, 89, 351 

conium, 450 

digitalis, 393 

dulcamara, 351, 434 

equisetum, 90, 351 

lachesis, 66 

Pulsatilla, 92, 351 

DACRYOCYSTITIS 
petroleum, 499 
Pulsatilla, 347 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



793 



DEAFNESS 

carbo animalis, 491 

carbo veg., 491 

graphites, 498 

ignatia, 575 

phosphorus, 574 
DEBILITY 

(See also Defective Reaction.) 

argentum metallicum, 611 

arsenicum, 367, 369 

calcarea ostrearum, 624 

calcarea hypophos., 738 

carbo animalis, 489, 490 

carbo veg., 481, 491 

cinchona, 367, 487 

cocculvts, 260, 624 

colchicum, 251 

conium, 447 

helonias, 135 

hypophosphite of lime, 738 

kali carb., 738 

lithium carb., 135 

muriatic acid, 522 

natrum carb., 692 

nux vomica, 256 

phosphoric acid, 367, 526, 624 

phosphorus, 367 

psorinum, 738 

selenium, 459 

senna, 737 

stannum, 624 

sulphur, 460, 624 

sulphuric acid, 624 

veratrum album, 624 
DEFECTIVE REACTION 

ambra grisea, 121, 150, 270, 465, 629 

asafoetida, 121 

camphor, 121 

capsicum, 150, 629 

carbo veg., 150, 270, 465, 629 

castoreum, 121, 465 

cinchona, 121, 150 

coca, 121 

coffea, 121 

cuprum, 464, 629 

cypripedium, 121 

laurocerasus, 150, 464, 629 

moschus, 121, 150 

opium, 150 

psorinum, 149, 150, 270, 464 

Scutellaria, 121 

tarentula, 121 

sulphur, 270, 462, 629 

valerian, 121, 270, 465, 624 

zinc oxide, 121 
DELIRIUM 

absinthium, 243 

agaricus, 423 

belladonna, 255, 429 

bryonia, 290 

hyoscyamus, 426, 429 

lachesis, 38, 423 

calcarea ostr., 269 

lycopodium, 442 

muriatic acid, 522 

phosphorus, 563 



DELIRIUM (Continued) 

plumbum, 622 

stramonium, 39, 255, 423, 429 

veratrum alb., 255 
DELIRIUM TREMENS 

absinthium, 243 

arsenicum, 269, 551 

calcarea ostrearum, 269, 675 

cannabis indica, 269 

lachesis, 269 

opium, 269 

ranunculus bulb., 332 

stramonium, 269 
DENTAL FISTULA 

calcarea fluorica, 519 

fluoric acid, 519 
DENTITION 

aethusa, 420 

belladonna, 249 

bromine, 504 

calcarea ostrearum, 669 

chamomilla, 249 

cina, 420 

colchicum, 59, 420 

dolichos, 420 

kreosotum, 420 

podophyllum, 59, 454 

zincum, 633 
DIABETES 

lac defloratum, 28 

lactic acid, 518 

phosphoric acid, 518 

phosphorus, 568 
DIAPHRAGMITIS 

cactus grandiflorus, 331 

ranunculus bulb., 331 
DIARRHOEA 

aconite, 324 

aloes, 137, 165, 166 

astonia schol., 168 

antimonium crud., 578 

apis, 144, 166 

apocynum, 164 

aranea diadema, 81 

argentum nitricum, 166, 176, 253, 610, 643 

arnica, 242 

arsenicum, 55, 166, 370, 553, 642 

belladonna, 419 

borax, 710 

bryonia, 114, 299, 453, 474, 724 

calcarea ostrearum, Cy r, 687 

calcarea phosphorica, 672 

castoreum, 117 

chamomilla, 248, 342, ^ 5 t 

cinchona, 53, 166, 370, 429, 488, 642 

coffea, 385 

colchicum, 59 

colocynth, 248, 285, 644 

croton tiglium, 256, 285, 312, 453 

dioscorea, 453, 475 

dulcamara, 434, 652 

elaps, 58 

elaterium, 257, 284, 287, 395 

euphorbia corollata, 312 

ferrum met., 166, 370, 642 

ferrum phos., 159, 642 



794 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



DIARRHOEA (Continued) 

gamboge, 165, 180 

gelsemium, 176, 255, 272 

geranium, 379 

gnaphalium, 374, 725 

graphites, 59 

gratiola, 395 

hepar, 687 

iodine, 510 

ipecacuanha, 379 

iris versicolor, 351, 371, 396 

kali bichromicum, 724 

kali bromatum, 380 

lachesis, 52 

leptandra, 396, 598 

lilium tig., 134 

lithium carb., 655 

magnesia carb., 644, 687 

mercurius, 250, 396, 591 

natrum carb., 690 

natrum mur., 705 

natrum sulph., 453, 474, 695, 724 

nitric acid, 534 

nuphar luteum, 380 

nux vomica, 188, 287 

Oenothera, 379 

oleander, 166, 371, 642 

opium, 176, 255 

opuntia, 379 

paullinia sorbilis, 379 

petroleum, 499, 500 

phosphoric acid, 370, 530 

phosphorus, 475, 565, 568 

picric acid, 540 

podophyllum, 188, 250, 371, 395, 453, 474 

psorinum, 149 

Pulsatilla, 176, 256, 272, 351 

rheum, 644, 687 

rhus tox., 234 

rumex crispus, 474, 724 

silicea, 546 

staphisagria, 342 

stramonium, 425 

strontiana carb., 541, 654 

sulphur, 250, 453, 474, 500, 695 

sulphuric acid, 532 

thuja,. 310 

ve rat rum album, 176, 255, 272, 371 
DIPHTHERIA 

ailanthus, 212, 403 

alcohol, 211 

ammonium caust., 211 

amygdala amara, 213, 214 

apis, 51, 95, 107, 109 

arsenicum, no, 213, 558 

arsenicum iod., 558 

arum triphyllum, 233, 444, 535 

baptisia, 212, 403 

belladonna, 214, 412 

bromine, 214 

camphor, 481 

cantharis, 95, 435 

capsicum, 435, 524 

carbo veg., 481 

carbolic acid, 721 
• crotalus horr., 35, 50 



DIPHTHERIA (Continued) 

hydrocyanic acid, 524 

ignatia, 203 

iodine, 214 

kali bichromicum, 214, 524, 595, 721 

kali permangan., no, 214, 524, 721 

lac caninum, 28, 50 

lachesis, 50, 214, 444 

lycopodium, 50, 211, 413, 443 

mercurius biniod., 214, 594 

mercurius cor., 596 

mercurius cyanatus, 214, 481, 524, 595 

mercurius protoiod., 595 

mercurius vivus, 594 

muriatic acid, 211, 524, 535 

naja, 50, 213 

natrum arsenicosum, no, 214, 254 

nitric acid, 210, 444, 534 

Phytolacca, 213, 444 

ranunculus seel., 333 

rhus tox., 213, 225, 22,2 

sulphuric acid, 532 
DIPHTHERIA, LARYNGEAL 

lachesis, 50 
DIPLOPIA 

aurum, 601 

gelsemium, 170 
DISLOCATION OF JOINTS 

ignatia, 235 

petroleum, 235 

rhus tox., 235 
DROPSY 

acetic acid, 104 

apis, 66, 67, 102 

apocynum can., 104, 163, 337 

arsenicum, 66, 104, 164, 337, 445> 5$8 

blatta, 32 

colchicum, 67, 254 

digitalis, 66, 166, 396 

helleborus, 66, 164, 337 

lachesis, 56, 66 

lycopodium, 445 

muriatic acid, 525 

rhus tox., 445 

scoparius, 163 

sulphur, 104 

terebinthina, 66, 337 
DRUNKARDS, COMPLAINTS OF 

arsenicum, 55, 187 

ammonium mur., 187 

antimonium tart., 583 

baryta carb., 268, 650 

carbo veg., 486 

cinchona, 374 

fluoric acid, 187 

lachesis, 477 

ledum, 195, 324 

nux vomica, 186, 187, 189, 191, 195 

opium, 210, 268, 269, 650 

selenium, 460 

staphisagria, 460' 

sulphur, 476 

sulphuric acid, 58 
DYSENTERY 

aconite, 324 

aloes, 188 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



795 



DYSENTERY (Continued) 

arnica, 242 

arsenicum, 488, 553 

baptisia, 403 

belladonna, 419 

cantharis, 95, 253 

capsicum, 96, 435 

carbo veg., 488 

cinchona, 488 

colchicum, 96, 253 

colocynth, 96, 286, 287 

ferrum phos., 642 

kali bichrom., 61, 97, 725 

lachesis, 61 

mercurius, 54, 188, 253, 324, 597 

nux vomica, 96, 188, 597 

rhus tox., 225, 234 

sulphur, 96, 466, 474, 598 

zincum sulph., 96 
DYSMENORRHOEA 

aconite, 325 

actea racemosa, 202, 648 

belladonna, 421 

caulophyllum, 176, 648 

causticum, 735 

chamomilla, 209, 263 

cinchona, 53 

cocculus, 202, 263 

colocynth, 286, 287 

cyclamen, 263 

gelsemium, 176 

ignatia, 202, 263 

magnesia mur., 202, 647 

nux vomica, 263 

Pulsatilla, 202, 263, 355 
DYSPEPSIA 

abies nigra, 305, 350, 370 

alumina, 618, 619 

arnica, 242 

arsenicum, 54, 55, 185, 487, 350, 351 

bryonia, 298 

cadmium sulph., 55 

capsicum, 434 

carbo veg., 56, 185, 486, 532 

cinchona, 53, 350, 370, 487 

graphites, 57 

hepar, 53, 686 

hydrocyanic acid, 517 

ignatia, 202 

ipecac, 377 

kali bichromicum, 724 

kali carb., 739 

kreosote, 185 

lachesis, 52, 687 

lycopodium, 131, 487 

magnesia carb., 645 

mercurius, 54 
• natrum carb., 690 

natrum mur., 704 

nux vomica, 184, 350, 477, 487, 704 

phosphorus, 568 

Pulsatilla, 186, 370 

sepia, 131, 432 

stannum, 624 

sulphur, 132, 476 

sulphuric acid, 58, 532 



DYSPEPSIA (Continued) 

tabacum, 432 
DYSPHAGIA 

gelsemium, 170, 173 
DYSURIA 

aconite, 710 

apis, 145 

arnica, 443 

belladonna, 416 

benzoic acid, 711 

camphor, 93 

cantharis, 711 

capsicum, 434 

colocynth, 287 

digitalis, 394 

hepar, 687 

lycopodium, 443, 711 

nitric acid, 192 

nux vomica, 192 

pareira brava, 453 

petroselinum, 710 

prunus spinosa, 443 

Pulsatilla, 443 

sarsaparilla, 443 

EARS 

aurum, 43, 491, 602 

baryta carb., 652 

belladonna, 411, 708 

borax, 708 

capsicum, 43, 435, 491 

carbo animalis, 491 

carbo veg., 491, 498 

causticum, 733 

chamomilla, 708 

conium, 448 

crotalus, 43 

dulcamara, 434 

elaps, 43 

graphites, 498 

hepar, 43, 412, 683 

lachesis, 43 

nitric acid, 43, 535 

nux vomica, 190 

Pulsatilla, 348, 708 

sanguinaria, 276 

silicea, 43, 435, 545 

tellurium, 412 
ECCHYMOSES OF THE SCLEROTIC 

arnica, 190 

hamamelis, 190 

ledum, 191 

nux vomica, 189 
ECZEMA 

antimonium crudum, 579 

arsenicum, 559 

calcarea ostrearum, 670 

curare, 179 

hepar, 688 

hydrocotyle, 560 

kali bromatum, 716 

mezereum, 233 

natrum carb., 693 

natrum mur., 705 

nux juglans, 233 

petroleum, 311, 495, 499 



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THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



ECZEMA (Continued) 

pix liquida, 306 

psorinum, 234 

ranunculus bulb., 332 

rhus tox., 232 

selenium, 461 

sepia, 693 

staphisagria, 340 
EMOTIONS, ILL EFFECTS OF 

(See Grief, Anger, etc.) 
EMPHYSEMA 

ammonium carb., 485, 660 

antimonium arsen., 558 

antimonium tart., 558 

arsenicum, 558 

carbo veg., 558 

curare, 207 

ipecac, 558 

naphthalin, 558 
ENDOCARDITIS 

arsenicum, 558 

kali carb., 741 

kali hydriodicum, 718 

phosphorus, 572 
ENTERITIS 

arnica, 60 

arsenicum, 553 

baptisia, 59 

belladonna, 59, 419 

colocynth, 285 

colchicum, 60 

lachesis, 59 

rhus tox., 59, 234 
ENURESIS 

belladonna, 416, 734 

benzoic acid, 247 

causticum, 416, 734 

calcarea ostrearum, 416, 734 

cina, 247 

equisetum, 90 

hepar, 687 

hyoscyamus, 416 

kreosote, 247, 416, 734 

linaria, 90, 395 

natrum hydrochlor., 692 

phosphoric acid, 247 

plantago major, 416, 734 

secale, 247 

sepia, 734 

silicea, 416 

sulphur, 416 
EPIDIDYMITIS 

gelsemium, 175 

Pulsatilla, 352 
EPILEPSY 

(See also Convulsions.) 

absinthium, 420 

argentum metallicum, 611 

argentum nitricum, 608 

arsenicum, 561 

artemisia vulgaris, 242, 420, 676 

belladonna, 420 

bufo, 30, 547, 676 

calcarea ostrearum, 676, 734 

causticum, 734 

cicuta virosa, 182, 428, 451 



EPILEPSY (Continued) 

cuprum, 630 

hydrocyanic acid, 537, 676 

hyoscyamus, 428 

indigo, 30 

kali bromatum, 715 

nux vomica, 30, 547, 676 

oenanthe, 428 

plumbum, 622 

ranunculus bulb., 332 

silicea, 547, 676 

sulphur, 676 

stannum, 625 
EPISTAXIS 

ambra, 152 

bovista, 157 

bromine, 502, 507 

bryonia, 291 

calcarea ostr., 671 

camphor, 481 

carbo veg., 157, 481 

ferrum, 639 

ipecac, 380 

mercurius, 591 

mercurius cyan., 591 

nux vomica, 190 

phosphorus, 569 

phosphoric acid, 527 

Pulsatilla, 346, 354, 355 

rhus tox., 527 _ 

secale, 157 

sepia, 124 

trillium, 159 
EPITHELIOMA 

arsenicum, 561 

cicuta, 451 

clematis, 561 

hydrastis, 510, 561 
ERECTILE TUMORS 

lycopodium, 441 
ERGOTISM, 153 
ERYSIPELAS 

anacardium oca, 221 

apis, 46, 106, 232, 417 

belladonna, 45, 106, 407, 416 

borax, 711 

camphor, 86 

cantharis, 97, 106 

comocladia, 217 

crotalus, 45, 417 

cuprum, 417, 630 

euphorbium, 46, 86 

graphites, 97, 174, 497 

hepar, 106 

lachesis, 41, 44, 106, 416 

rhus tox., 46, 106, 113, 221, 232 

silicea, 106 

stramonium, 425 

sulphur, 106, 417 
EUSTACHIAN CATARRH 

graphites, 498 

nitric acid, 535 

nux vomica, 190 

silicea, 546 
EYES 

aconite, 321, 397 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



797 



EYES (Continued) 

actea racemosa, 327 

agaricus, 203 

alumina, 131, 619 

amyl nitrite, 412 

antimonium crudum, 580 

antimonium tart., 583 

apis, 113, 217 

argentum nitricum, 608, 019 

arnica, 43 

arsenicum, 113, 397, 494 

artemisia vulgaris, 243 

asafoetida, 450 

aurum, 601 

belladonna, 397, 412, 449 

berberis, 619 

borax, 710 

bryonia, 300 

calcarea ostrearum, 494, 669 

carbo animalis, 491 

carbo veg., 492 

cedron, 206 

cina, 247, 619 

cinnabaris, 594 

comocladia, 217 

conium, 360, 619 

crocus, 619 

crotalus horridus, 43 

cyclamen, 360 

euphrasia, 383, 396, 496, 609, 683 

glonoin, 436 

graphites, 130, 494, 580, 619, 710 

hepar, 496, 683 

ignatia, 203 

jaborandi, 130, 619 

kali bichromicum, 113, 360, 726 

kali carb., 130 

kali hydriodicum, 716 

kreosote, 609 

lachesis, 42 

lithium carb., 655 

mercurius, 397, 495, 593 

mercurius biniod., 593 

mercurius cor., 593 

mercurius dulcis, 593 

mercurius protoiod., 593 

mezereum, 206 

natrum carb., 619 

natrum mur., 130, 619, 702 

natrum sulph., 619 

mix moschata, 619 

nux vomica, 130, 189 

paris quadrifolia, 412 

petroleum, 499 

phellandrium, 450 

phosphorus, 574, 683 

prunus spinosa, 412 

Pulsatilla, 130, 347 

rhus tox., 113, 235, 397, 609, 619 

ruta, 449, 619 

saccharum offic, 669 

santonine, 274, 360 

sepia, 129, 619 

spigelia, 205, 321, 412, 701 

staphisagria, 340 

sulphur, 321, 473, 494, 070 



EYES (Continued) 
thuja, 131 
zincum, 637 
zincum sulph., 637 

FACE 

aethusa, 377, 450 

ammonium mur., 662 

antimonium tart., 377 

apis, 42, 44 

arsenicum, 44 

baptisia, 44 

belladonna, 44, 409, 411 

bryonia, 246 

bufo, 44 

calcarea ostr., 668 

camphor, 44, 45 

carbo veg., 44 

cicuta, 44, 45 

cina, 246 

cinchona, 44 

cuprum, 44 

digitalis, 389 

euphorbium, 46 

ferrum, 640 

gelsemium, 171 

hydrocyanic acid, 44, 45 

hyoscyamus, 44, 45 

ipecacuanha, 246, 377 

kali bich., 724 

kali carb., 44 

lachesis, 43 

lycopodium, 44, 440 

natrum arsenicosum, 44 

nux moschata, 44 

nux vomica, 44 

opium, 44, 420 

phosphoric acid, 44 

phosphorus, 44, 45 

Phytolacca, 44 

Pulsatilla, 44 

rhus tox., 44 

secale, 44 

stramonium, 44, 45 

staphisagria, 338 

sulphur, 44, 465 

veratrum album, 44 
FAINTING 

(See Syncope.) 
FAMILY RELATION OF DRUGS, 23 
FATIGUE 

coca, 521 

coffea, 385 

fluoric acid, 521 
FATTY DEGENERATIONS 

apocynum, 164 

aurum, 603 

manganum, 633 

phosphorus, 540 

picric acid, 540 
FATTY TUMORS 

baryta carb., 652 
FEET 

lycopodium, 692 

natrum carb., 692 



79 8 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



FELONS 

fluoric acid, 520 

mercurius, 592 
FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS 

actea racemosa, 143, 328, 356 

aletris farinosa, 359 

aloes, 137, 478 

ambra grisea, 151 

ammonium mur., 663 

antimonium crud., 580 

apis mellifica, 112, 615, 664 

argentum metallicum, 616 

argentum nitricum, 616 

arnica, 664 

aurum, 139, 603, 615 

belladonna, 420, 615 

berberis, 452 

bryonia, 301 

calcarea ostrearum, 145, 673 

calcarea phos., 145, 679 

cantharis, 97 

carbo animalis, 140 

carbo veg., 141 

caulophyllum 357 

cyclamen, 359 

ferrurn, 615 

ferrum jod., 143, 643 

gelsemium, 175 

graphites, 141, 498 

hedeoma, 146 

helonias, 134, 357, 616 

hydrocotyle, 145 

inula, 146 

kali ferrocyan., 144 

kreosote, 136, 615 

lachesis, 62 

lilium tigrinum, X33, 616 

mitchella, 145 

murex, 135 

natrum carb., 142, 693 

natrum hypochlorosum, 143 

natrum mur., 142, 615, 700 

nux vomica, 136, 193 

palladium, 615 

platina, 65, 140, 613 

podophyllum, 138 

Pulsatilla, 138, 354 

secale, 145 

senecio, 359 

sepia, 133, 420, 615 

stannum, 138 

sulphur, 134, 478 

thuja, 309, 615 

ustilago, 145, 157 

vespa, 145 

viburnum opulus, 146, 250 

zincum, 638 

zizea, 146 
FEVER 

aconite, 291, 316, 318 

apis, 317 

arsenicum, 320, 467, 552, 556 

baptisia, 467 

belladonna, 292, 319, 409 

bryonia, 289, 317 

carbo veg., 483 



FEVER (.Continued) 

cuprum, 629 

ferrum phos., 320 

gelsemium, 173, 317 

hyoscyamus, 428 

mercurius, 410 

lycopodium, 440 

opium, 272 

podophyllum, 454 

Pulsatilla, 360 

sulphur, 320, 466, 557 

veratrum viride, 319 
FEVER BLISTERS 

arsenicum, 705 

hepar, 705 

natrum mur., 705 

rhus tox., 705 
FIBROUS TISSUES 

rhus tox., 235 
FISTULAE 

ignatia, 542 

petroleum, 499 

phosphorus, 573 

silicea, 497, 573 

sulphur, 452 
FISTULA IN ANO 

berberis, 452 

calcarea phos., 452. 

graphites, 497 

lycopodium, 497 

nitric acid, 497, 534 

paeonia, 497 

petroleum, 499 

ratanhia, 497 

silicea, 542 
FLATULENCE 

cepa, 445 

fel tauri, 29 

fel vulpi, 29 

graphites, 497 

lycopodium, 284, 445, 497 

momordica balsamica, 284, 445 

natrum sulph., 695 

raphanus, 271, 445 

sulphur, 445 
FLUSHES OF HEAT 
. amyl nitrite, 31, 466 

kali bichromicum, 466 

lachesis, 466 

sulphur, 466 

sulphuric acid, 466 
FRACTURES 

calcarea phos., 680 

Symphytum off., 241, 680 
FRIGHT, ILL EFFECTS OF 

gelsemium, 272 

glonoin, 437 

natrum mur., 272 

opium, 270, 272 

phosphoric acid, 272 

Pulsatilla, 272 

silicea, 272 

veratrum, 272 

GALL-STONES 

(See Biliary Colic.) 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



799 



GANGRENE 

arsenicum, 47, 156, 483, 552, 560 

carbo veg., 483 

cinchona, 561 

iodine, 511 

lachesis, 560 

secale, 154, 156, 560 
GASTRALGIA 

anacardium, 221 

argentum nitricum, 607 

belladonna, 414 

bismuth, 185, 415, 608 

chamomilla, 249 

chelidonium, 497 

chininum ars., 415 

ferrum, 640 

graphites, 57, 497 

ignatia, 202 

lithium carb., 655 

nux vomica, 184 

petroleum, 497 

stannum, 624 
GASTRIC CATARRH 

aconite, 324 

antimonium crud., 351, 378, 578 

arsenicum, 378, 379 

bryonia, 378, 578 

ipecacuanha, 378 

kali bichromicum, 720 

nux vomica, 378 

Pulsatilla, 49, 579 
GASTRIC FEVER 

aconite, 291 

bryonia, 289 

mercurius, 591 
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS 

(See also Gastritis, etc.) 

aconite, 324 

alumina, 619 

anacardium, 219 

antimonium crudum, 378 

antimonium tart., 583 

arsenicum, 54, 55, 350, 378, 487, 553 

belladonna, 350, 414 

bryonia, 248 

calcarea ostr., 415 

carbo animalis, 490 

carbo veg., 56, 350, 486, 554 

chamomilla, 249 

chelidonium, 481 

cinchona, 370, 553 

colchicum, 58, 350 

cyclamen, 359 

ferrum, 496 

fluoric acid. 704 

graphites, 57, 496 

hepar, 460, 686, 704 

indium, 636 

ipecacuanha, 350, 351, 377 

kali bichromicum, 724 

kreosote, 185, 350 

lachesis, 52, 56, 704 

lobelia, 377 

lycopodium, 444, 553, 724 

muriatic acid, 525 

natrum mur., 697 



GASTRIC SYMPTOMS (Continued) 

nitro-muriatic acid, 525 

nux vomica, 184, 445 

petroleum, 500 

phosphorus, 565, 568, 636 

Pulsatilla, 377, 496 

raphanus, 445 

sabina, 350 

selenium, 460 

sepia, 350, 490, 623 

stannum, 624 

staphisagria, 341, 377, 460 

sulphur, 195, 445, 636 

tabacum, 377, 432 

thein, 132, 377 

thuja, 350 

zincum, 637 
GASTRITIS 

aconite, 324 

arsenicum, 54, 185, 324, 553 

cantharis, 95 

colchicum, 324 

kali bichromicum, 726 
GASTRO-ENTERIC SYMPTOMS 

argentum nitricum, 554 

cadmium sulph., 554 

carbo veg., 554 

elaps, 58 

magnesia carb., 644 

secale cornutum, 155, 554 

veratrum album, 554 
GENITAL ORGANS 

(See also Female Genital Organs.) 

apis, 112 

cantharis, 96 

croton tiglium, 86 

gelsemium, 174 

graphites, 498 

lachesis, 62 

picric acid, 97 
GLANDS 

alumina, 620 

badiagia, 31 

belladonna, 233 

bromine, 503 

calcarea ostr., 671 

carbo animalis, 31, 489, 503 

carbo veg., 484 

conium, 448 

graphites, 494 

hepar, 686 

iodine, 509 

mercurius, 590, 596 

silicea, 544 

spongia, 512 

sulphur, 468 
GLAUCOMA 

aconite, 321 

aurum, 601 

bryonia, 300 

colocynth, 287 

rhus tox., 235 
GLOSSOPLEGIA 

baryta carb., 650 

colchicum, 650 



8oo 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



GOITRE 

bromine, 503 

lapis albus, 510 

spongia, 512 
GONORRHOEA 

argentum nitricum, 91 

cannabis indica, 90 

cannabis sativa, 89 

cantharis, 89, 96 

capsicum, 91 

carbo animalis, 489 

chimaphila, 91 

clematis, 91 

copaiva, 91, 627 

cubeba, 91 

digitalis, 394 

doryphora, 32 

gelsemium, 175 

kali bichromicum, 72.2 

mercurius corrosivus, 91, 394 

mercurius solubilis, 91, 311, 352, 394 

natrum mur., 703 

nux vomica, 192 

petroselinum, 90, 394, 450, 710 

Pulsatilla, 310, 352 

sepia, 394 

sulphur, 394, 478 

thuja, 91, 309 

yucca, 313 
GOUT 

ammonium phos., 656, 665 

antimonium crudum, 580 

arnica, 369 

benzoic acid, 453, 656 

berberis vulgaris, 453 

calcarea ostrearum, 453, 656, 077 

causticum, 288 

colchicum, 253, 353 

colocynth, 288 

guaiacum, 288 

ledum, 232, 297 

lithium carb., 453, 654 

lycopodium, 453, 656 

natrum mur., 656 

Pulsatilla, 353 

sabina, 298 

staphisagria, 341 
GRANULAR LIDS 

alumina, 619 

argentum nitricum, 609 

euphrasia, 609 

lycopodium, 443 

rhus tox., 609 

zincum, 637 

zincum sulph., 637 
GRAVEL 

cantharis, 89 

lycopodium, 443 

sarsaparilla, 92, 443 
GRTEF, BAD EFFECTS OF 

ignatia, 197, 198, 528 

natrum mur., 197, 528 

phosphoric acid, 197, 528 
GROWING PAINS 

guaiacum, 530 

phosphoric acid, 530 



GUMMATA 

kali hydriodicum, 719 

HAEMATEMESIS 

hamamelis, 301 

millefolium, 301 

phosphorus, 575 

Pulsatilla, 301 

ustilago, 301, 575 
HAEMATURIA 

cantharis, 89 

crotalus, 66 

equisetum, 90 

ipecacuanha, 383 

lachesis, 66 

nux vomica, 192 

terebinthina, 66, 305 
HAEMAPHILLIA 

bovista, 157 

lachesis, 575 

phosphorus, 575 
HAEMOPTYSIS 

acalypha indica, 369 

aconite, 324 

cactus, 324 

carbo veg., 481 

elaps, 35 

ferrum, 639, 641 

ledum, 324 

millefolium, 324 

nux vomica, 191 

opium, 270 

phosphorus, 301, 569 

Pulsatilla, 301, 361 

rhus tox., 229 

senecio, 301 

sulphur, 465 
HAEMORRHAGES 

acalypha indica, 369 

aconite, 243 

ammonium carb., 658 

aranea diadema, 80 

arsenicum, 482, 487 

belladonna, 368, 421 

bovista, 157 

carbo veg., 151, 368, 481 

cascarilla, 312 

cinchona, 293, 367, 482 

cinnamomum, 369 

cyclamen, 369 

erigeron, 159, 368 

ferrum, 643 

ferrum phos., 159 

hamamelis, 158, 369, 537 

ipecacuanha, 368, 482, 643 

ledum, 369 

leptandra, 537 

mercurius, 591 

millefolium, 343, 368 

mitchella, 158 

phosphorus, 369, 569 

sabina, 305, 368 

sanguinaria, 278 

secale, 154, 368 

sulphuric acid, 532 

trillium, 158, 159, 368 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



801 



HAEMORRHAGES \Continued) 

vinca minor, 167, 369 
HAEMORRHOIDS 

abrotanum, 245 

aesculus hip., 187 

aloes, 137, 187, 478 

anacardium, 220 

apocynum, 165 

arsenicum, 55, 487 

carbo animalis, 490 

carbo veg., 57, 486 

cascarilla, 321 

collinsonia, 188 

graphites, 497 

hamamelis, 188 

lachesis, 52 

lamium album, 220 

lycopodium, 441 

nux vomica, 186, 187 

paeonia, 497 

sepia, 131 

sulphur, 187, 465, 476 

sulph. ac, 58, 531 
HAY-FEVER 

ailanthus, 557 

ambrosia, 332 

arsenicum, 332, 557 

arsenicum jod., 557 

lobelia inflata. 557 

rosa damascena, 557 

ranunculus bulbosus, 332 

silicea, 332, 546, 557 

sinapis nigra, 558 

wyethia, 558 
HEADACHE 

(See also Hemicrania.) 

aconite, 200 

actea racemosa, 176, 328 

aloes, 137, 187 

anacardium, 219 

antimonium tart., 581 

aranea, 81 

argentum nitricum, 605, 606 

arsenicum, 701 

baryta carb., 652 

belladonna, 82, 277, 408, 411 

bovista, 158 

bromine, 504 

bryonia, 40, 82, 289, 300, 701 

calcarea ostrearum, 701 

cannabis indica, 90 

carbo animalis, 141, 354 

carbo veg., 300, 486 

carbolic acid, 481 

castoreum, 195 

causticum, 702, 724 

chamomilla, 287 

chelidonium, 281 

cinchona, 40, 369, 701 

cocculus, 262, 354 

colocynth, 287 

cyclamen, 130 

ferrum, 639, 641 

gelsemium, 40, 171, 172, 200, 262, 300. 
581, 701 

glonoin, 436, 701 

51 



HAEMORRHAGES (Continued) 

hyoscyamus, 427 

ignatia, 78, 171, 199 

ipecacuanha, 377 

iris versicolor, 277, 702, 784 

juglans cinerea, 207, 262, 300 

kali bichromicum, 702, 727 

kali hydriodicum, 716 

kalmia, 171, 200 

lac defloratum, 28 

lachesis, 40, 41 

lamium album, 220 

lithium carb., 655 

magnesia mur., 120, 656 

melilotus, 200, 277 

men3'anthes, 354, 547 

mercurius, 41, 591 

moschus, 116 

natrum carb., 692 

natrum mur., 128, 300, 699, 701, 724 

nux vomica, 128, 183, 184, 300 

oleander, 165 

oleum animale, 171 

palladium, 615 

paris quadrifolia, 547 

paullinia, 278 

petroleum, 172, 300 

phellandrium, 354, 450 

phosphoric acid, 530 

phosphorus, 563 

picric acid, 128, 194 

platina, 78 

psorinum, 149, 150, 724 

ptelea, 377 

Pulsatilla, 41, 353 

ranunculus bulb., 354 

ranunculus seel., 354 

rhus glabra, 217 

rhus radicans, 222 

sanguinaria, 82, 171, 200, 276 

sarsaparilla, 311 

selenium, 460 

sepia, 176, 701 

silicea, 171, 200, 547, 653, 724 

spigelia, 82, 205, 354, 392, 701 

strontiana carb., 548 

sulphur, 128, 581 

theridion, 82 

thuja, 308 

veratrum alb., 200, 354, 377, 701 

zincum, 635 
HEART 

aconite, 225, 322, 507, 514 

actea racemosa, 225 

ammonium carb., 601, 659 

anacardium, 221 

apis, 103, no 

apocynum, in, 164 

argentum metallicum, 611 

arnica, 225, 239, 323 

arsenicum, in, 164, 239, 314 

asparagus, 111 

aurum, 323, 600, 656 

aurum mur. natr., 601 

belladonna, 11 1 

benzoic acid, 656 



802 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



HEART (Continued) 
bovista, 158 
bromine, 225, 239, 507 
bryonia, 298 
cactus, 225, 239 
carbo animalis, 134, 499 
colchicum, 254, 298 
conium, 392, 448, 656 
convallaria, 393 
digitalis, 69, in, 171. 3^3 
euphrasia, 718 
gelsemium, 170, 276 
glonoin, 466 
graphites, 499, 718. 
grindelia, 171, 466 
helleborus, 392 
hydrocyanic acid, 514, 538 
iodine, 509 

kali bichromicum. 134, 499, 718 
kali carb., in, 145, 737, 74* 
kali chloricum, 134. 449 
kali hydriodicum, 717, ;i8 
kali nitricum, 499 
kalmia, 225, 323, 392, 656 
lachesis, 65, in, 514, 718 
lactuca, 718 
ledum, 656 
lilium tig., 134 
lithium carb., 656 
magnesia mur., 120, 647 
natrum mur., 134, 499 
petroleum, 134, 499 
phosphorus, 31, 514, 572 
Phytolacca, 225 
Pulsatilla, 225 

quinine, 36-; 

rhus tox., 223, 225, 323 

spigelia, in, 206, 254, 392, 509, 741 

spongia, 514 

sulphur, in, 465 

sumbul, 225 

tabacum, 432 

veratrum alb., 257 

veratrum viride, 257 

zincum, 636, 656 
HEART, FATTY DEGENERATION OF 
THE 

apocynum, 164 

arsenicum, 572 

phosphorus, 572 
HEART, HYPERTROPHY OF THE 

aconite, 323, 508 

arnica, 225, 239, 323, 507 

arsenicum, 239 

aurum, 323, 601 

bromine, 225, 239, 507 

cactus, 239, 323 

iodine, 509 

kalmia, 323 

rhus tox., 223, 239, 323, 508 
HEART, PALPITATION OF TEE 

badiaga, 31 

coffea, 31 

nitrite of amyl, 31 

phosphorus, 31 

rhus tox., 225 



HEAT, ILL-EFFECTS OF 
natrum carb., 691 
selenium, 38, 459 
HECTIC FEVER 

arsenicum, 373 

carbo veg., 373, 483 

cinchona, 373 

lycopodium, 446 

stannum, 626, 706 
HEELS 

ammonium mur., 663 

antimonium crudum, 663 

causticum, 663 

cepa, 663 

graphites, 663 

ignatia, 663 

ledum, 663 

manganum, 663 

natrum carb., 663, 692 

Pulsatilla, 663 

sepia, 663 
HEMICRANIA 

argentum nitricum, 606 

arsenicum, 129, 561 

belladonna, 128 

gelsemium, 128 

iris versicolor, 129 

nux vomica, 129 

oleum animale, 171 

Pulsatilla, 129 

sanguinaria, 128 

sepia, 128 

silicea, 128, 129 

theridion, 129 

veratrum album, 128 
HEMIOPIA 

aurum, 601 

lithium carb., 655, 702 

lycopodium, 702 

natrum mur., 702 

titanium, 702 
HEMIPLEGIA 

arnica, 242 
HEPATITIS 

phosphorus, 567 
HERNIA 

aconite, 325 

carbo veg., 56 

cocculus, 189 

lachesis, 57 

lycopodium, 189 

nux vomica, 189 

opium, 272 

tabacum, 433 
HERPES 

bovista, 157 

psorinum, 149 

natrum mur., 705 

sepia, 125, 70s 
HERPES CIRCINATUS 

baryta carb., 125, 705 
calcarea ostrearum, 125 
natrum mur., 705 
sepia, 125, 705 
tellurium, 125, 705 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



803 



HERPES LABIALIS 

(See Fever Blisters.) 
HERPES ZOSTER 

arsenicum, 332 

carboneum oxygen., 87 

mezereum, 332 

ranunculus bulb., 332 

rhus tox., 332 
HICCOUGH 

arsenicum, 203 

cajuputum, 203 

hyoscyamus, 203 

ignatia, 202 

Pulsatilla, 203 

ranunculus bulb., 372 

stramonium, 203 

sulphuric acid, 203 

teucrium marum verum, 203 

veratrum album, 203 
HIP-JOINT DISEASE 

calcarea ostrearum, 676 

carbo veg., 483 

colocynth, 288 

Gettysburg spring water, 341, 545, 656 

natrum sulph., 695 

phosphoric acid, 530 

phosphorus, 573 

silicea, 544, 573 

stillingia, 695 

stramonium, 425 

sulphur, 470 
HOARSENESS 

(See Aphonia.) 
HOMESICKNESS 

capsicum, 435, 528 

mercurius, 590 

phosphoric acid, 528 
HYDRARTHROSIS 

apis, 511 

iodine, 510 

sulphur, 511 
HYDROCELE 

digitalis, 390 

Pulsatilla, 353 
HYDROCEPHALOID 

apis, 114 

arsenicum, 102 

calcarea phos., 367, 380, 636, 680 

cinchona, 366, 380, 680 

ferrum phos., 159 

Oenothera bien., 379 

sulphur, 471 

zinc, 635, 680 
HYDROCEPHALUS 

apis, 103 

apocynum, 164 

baryta carb., 649 

calcarea ostr., 672 

digitalis, 164, 337, 393 

helleborus, 101, 105, 337 

staphisagria, 338 

sulphur, 104, 469 

terebinth., 305 
HYDROPERICARDIUM 

apis, no 

arsenicum, in, 559 



HYDROPERICARDIUM (Continued) 

digitalis, 390 

kali carb., in 

lachesis, 65 

lycopodium, 445 
HYDROPHOBIA 

belladonna, 94 

cantharis, 94 

stramonium, 423 
HYDROTHORAX 

apis, 103, no 

apocynum cannabinum, 104 

arsenicum, 559 

colchicum, 254 

digitalis, 390 

juglans cinerea, 207 

lachesis, 65 

mercurius sulph., 390, 559 
HYPEROPIA 

caibo an., 492 
HYPOCHONDRIASIS 

alumina, 618 

anacardium, 219 

bryonia, 618 

conium, 448, 638 

natrum carb., 689 

natrum mur., 699, 704 

nux vomica, 618, 691 

sepia, 690 

stannum, 624 

staphisagria, 338 

zincum, 638 

zincum ox., 448 
HYSTERIA 

actea racemosa, 76 

ammoniacum gummi, 116, 120 

apis, 100, 112 

arsenicum, 614 

asafoetida, 119, 120, 198, 449 

belladonna, 77, 199 

calcarea ostrearum, 614 

cocculus, 199 

crocus, 76, 79 

cuprum, 198 

hyoscyamus, 77, 198 

ignatia, 77, 116, 198, 200, 276 

magnesia mur., 120, 646 

moschus, 79, 116, 198, 614 

nux moschata, 118, 199 

nux vomica, 276 

palladium, 78 

phosphorus, 276 

platina, 78, 198, 613, 614 

sanguinaria, 276 

sepia, 124 

stannum, 625 

sulphur, 471 

tarantula, 757 

theridion, 82 

Valeriana, 118, 119, 276 

valerinate of zinc, 199 

ILEUS 

opium, 272 
IMPETIGO 

sepia, 476 



804 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



IMPOTENCE 

agnus castus, 674 
calcarea ostr., 674 
chlorine, 511 
conium, 564 
graphites, 498 
phosphorus, 564 
selenium, 459 
INFLAMMATIONS 
aconite, 36, 99, 316 
apis, 99 

arsenicum, 94, 96, 552 
belladonna, 99, 407, 591 
camphor, 94 
cantharis, 94 
ferrum phos., 159, 642 
hepar, 687 
mercurius, 591 
INFLAMMATORY FEVER 

arsenicum, 467 
INFLUENZA 

eupatorium perf., 244 
ranunculus sceleratus, 333 
rhus tox., 234 
sabadilla, 298 
INIMICAL DRUGS 

ammonium carb. and lachesis, 659 
apis and rhus, 114 
carbo veg. and causticum, 481 
cinchona and belladonna or morphia, 375 
cinchona and digitalis, 393 
nux and zinc, 196, 631 
phos. and caust., 729 
psorin. and lach., 151 
ranunculus bulb, and sulph., 332 
rhus tox. and apis, 1 14, 223 
selenium and cinchona, 462 
silicea and mercurius, 543, 631 
INIMICAL RELATION OF DRUGS, 24 
INJURIES 

angustura, 180 
arnica, 242, 532 
calcarea phos., 241 
calendula, 241 
cicuta, 451 
conium, 449, 532 
glonoin, 437 
hypericum, 241 
ledum, 241 

natrum sulph., 437, 694 
rhus tox., 240 
rut'a, 532, 654 
staphisagria, 241 
sulphuric acid, 532 
Symphytum, 241 
INSOMNIA 

(See also Sleep.) 
ambra grisea, 151 
calcarea ostrearum, 675 
chamomilla, 248 
cocculus, 361 
hyoscyamus, 428 
INTERMITTENT FEVER 
alstonia schoJ., 168 
ammonium mur., 66fe 
apis mellifica, 70, 107 



INTERMITTENT FEVER (Continued) 
aranea diadema, 80, 373 
arsenicum, 69, 555 
camphor, 69 
canchalagua, 372 
capsicum, 68, 201, 372, 435 
carbo veg., 68, 372, 483 
cedron, 80 

chininum sulph., 80, 371, 467 
cimex, 32 
cina, 247 

cinchona, 80, 229, 371 
cornus florida, 371 
cuprum, 70 
digitalis, 69 
eucalyptus, 372 

eupatorium perf., 229, 244, 372 
eupatorium purp., 244 
ferrum, 372, 643 
gelsemium, 68, 172, 229 
helleborus, 69 
hydrocyanic acid, 69 
hyoscyamus, 69 
ignatia, 201, 372 
ipecacuanha, 372, 382 
malaria offic, 373 
lachesis, 68, 202, 372 
lachnanthes, 69 
lycopodium, 70, 441 
menyanthes, 68, 372, 483 
natrum mur., 108, 229, 706 
nux vomica, 196 
Pulsatilla, 360 
rhus tox., 229 
sabadilla, 229 
secale, 69 
sepia, 372 
sulphur, 229, 467 
veratrum album, 69 
IRITIS 

asafoetida, 450, 602 
aurum, 450, 601 
colocynth, 287 
euphrasia, 397 
kali bichromicum, 726 
kali hydriodicum, 716 
. mercurius, 311, 593 
mercurius corros., 593, 602, 716 
nitric acid, 602 
rhus tox., 235, 397 
thuja, 310 

JAUNDICE 

arsenicum, 187 
bryonia, 187, 299 
carduus marianus, 187 
chamomilla, 187, 248 
chelidonium, 207 
cinchona, 374 
digitalis, 391 
hepar, 187 

juglans cin., 207, 262 
lachesis, 52 
mercurius, 187, 597 
myrica, 391 
natrum sulph., 187 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



805 



JAUNDICE (Continued) 

nux vomica, 187 

phosphorus, 569 

podophyllum, 453 

Pulsatilla, 187 
JOINTS 

ammonium mur., 663 

ammonium phos., 656 

anacardium, 221 

apocynum, 164 

argentum met., 611 

benzoic acid, 453, 656 

berberis, 453 

bryonia, 453 

calcarea ostr., 453, 656 

calcarea phos., 679, 680 

Gettysburg spring water, 656, 676 

ignatia, 235 

iodine, 103 

kali hydriodicum, 103 

lithium carb., 654, 656 

petroleum, 235 

lycopodium, 656 

pinus sylvestris, 676, 692 

Pulsatilla, 221 

rhus tox., 235, 240 

sepia, 125 

KERATITIS 

apis, 383 

crotalus, 43 

kali hydriodicum, 717 

silicea, 545 

sulphur, 473 
KIDNEYS 

ammonium benz., 66 

apis, 66, 559 

argentum nitricum, 610 

arsenicum, 67, 559 

aurum, 559, 603 

berberis, 93, 451 

cannabis indica, 90 

cantharis, 87 

carbolic acid, 66 

colchicum, 67 

digitalis, 66, 559 

helleborus, 66, 559 

kali carb., 66 

kali hydriodicum, 719 

lachesis, 66 \ 

lycopodium, 446 

natrum mur., 66 

phosphoric acid, 530 

phosphorus, 559, 569 

plumbum, 603, 623 

terebinthina, 66, 92, 305, '59 
KNEE-JOINT DISEASE 

silicea, 544 

LABOR * 

aconite, 321 
actea racemosa, 328 
belladonna, 421 
cantharis, 97 
caulophyllum, 357 
chamomilla, 250 



LABOR (Continued) 

gelsemium, 175, 328 

ipecacuanha, 328 

lycopodium, 328 

natrum carb., 694 

nux vomica, 193, 355 

Pulsatilla, 193, 355 

secale, 154 
LACTATION 

(See also Agalactia.) 

carbo animalis, 165, 490 

oleander, 165 
LAPAROTOMY 

staphysagria, 241 
LARYNGEAL PHTHISIS 

selenium, 462 

spongia, 513 
LARYNGISMUS STRIDULUS 

antimonium tart., 504 

arsenicum, 504 

belladonna, 504 

bromine, 504 

calcarea phos., 504 

chlorine, 504 

cuprum, 504 

ignatia, 504 

iodine, 504 

ipecacuanha, 504 

lachesis, 504 

phosphorus, 504 

sambucus, 324, 504 
LARYNGITIS 

apis, no 

kali bichromicum, 721 

sambucus, 513 

spongia, 462, 513 

sulphur, 473 
LARYNX 

(See also Laryngeal Phthisis.) 

apis, no 

argentum metallicum, 611 

argentum nitricum, 609 

arum triphyllum, " 210 

causticum, 732 

eupatorium perf., 485 

manganum, 609 

phosphorus, 462, 570 

paris quadrifolia, 610 

sanguinaria, 

selenium, 461, 610 
LEAD-COLIC 

alum, 621 

alumina, 620, 621 

arsenicum, 621 

belladonna, 621 

colocynth, 621 

nux vomica, 621 

opium, 621 

platina, 614, 621 

sulphuric acid, 621 
LEUCORRHOEA 

alumina, 618 

ambra grisea, 152 

ammonium mur., 664 

berberis, 452 

borax, 710 



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THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



LEUCORRHOEA (Continued) 

calcarea ostrearum, 674 

calcarea phosphorica, 145 

cannabis sat, 674 

carbo veg., 141 

caulophyilum, 674 

cubeba, 674 

graphites, 141, 493 

helonias, 358 

hydrastis, 360 

kali bichromicum, 720 

kreosote, 136 

lilium tigrinum, 134 

mercurius, 674 

murex purpurea, 135 

natrum carb., 693 

natrum mur., 142 

nitric acid, 310, 354 

palladium, 616 

phosphorus, 674 

podophyllum, 454 

Pulsatilla, 674 

rhus tox., 134 

sepia, 133, 674 

stannum, 625 

thuja, 309 
LIVER 

(See also Hepatitis and Gall Stones.) 

aloe, 137 

ammonium mur., 187, 664 

angustura, 282 

aurum, 603 

berberis, 299, 452 

bryonia, 207, 282, 298 

carduus mar., 187 

chelidonium, 207, 281, 299 

chenopodium, 282 

digitalis, 391 

fluoric acid, 187 

graphites, 497 

hepar, 687 

juglans cin., 207 

kali carb., 299 

lachesis, 52, 187, 444, 477 

laurocerasus, 477 

leptandra, 395, 598 

lobelia syph., 282 

lycopodium, 282, 444 

magnesia mur., 186, 647 

manganum, 633 

mercurius, 395, 597, 647 

myrica cerifera, 391 

nux vomica, 130, 136, 186 

phosphorus, 477, 565, 567 

podophyllum, 137, 138, 453 

ptelea, 648 

ranunculus bulb., 282 

selenium, 461 

sepia, 136, 186 

sulphur, 186, 461, 476 

taraxacum, 244 

zincum, 637 
LIVER SPOTS 

curare, 125, 179 

lycopodium, 125 

nux vomica, 125 



LIVER SPOTS (Continued) 

sepia, 125 

sulphur, 125 
LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA 

alumina, 541, 618 

aluminium met., 618 

argentum nitricum, 606 

belladonna, 419 

causticum, 730 

cocculus, 261 

kali bromatum, 715 

nux vomica, 194 

phosphorus, 564 

picric acid, 97 

stramonium, 424 

zincum, 606 
LUMBAGO 

calcarea fluorica, 677 

calcarea ostrearum, 677 

kali carb., 230, 741 

ledum, 230 

nux vomica, 194, 677 

petroleum, 230 

rhus tox., 230, 677 

ruta, 230 

secale, 677 

staphisagria, 230 

sulphur, 230 

Valeriana, 230 
LUNGS 

ammonium carb., 659 

antimonium crud., 627 

antimonium tart., 627 

arsenicum, 374 

aurum, 603 

balsam of Peru, 627 

borax, 710 

calcarea ostr., 627, 673 

calcarea phos., 627, 673 

chamomilla, 627 

cinchona, 374 

copaiva, 627 

.dulcamara, 434 

elaps, 51 

ferrum phos., 159, 642 

grindelia, 171, 633 

hepar, 627, 685 

illicium anisatum, 627 

ipecacuanha, 627 

kali bichromicum, 740 

kali carb., 740 

kali hyd., 717 

lachesis, 374 

lycopodium, 445, 627 

myosotis, 627 

opium, 270 

phosphorus, 027 

pix liquida, 306, 327 

Pulsatilla, 740 

scilla, 627 

secale, 374 

selenium, 461 

senega, 673 

sepia, 673 

silicea, 546 

spongia, 513 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



807 



LUNGS (Continued) 

sulphur, 469, 627, 740 

veratrum viride, 257 

yerba santa, 627 
LUNGS, ABSCESS OF THE 

lachesis, 51 
LUNGS, PARALYSIS OF THE 

ammonium carb., 582, 659 

ammonium mur., 664 

antimonium tart., 485, 582, 650 

baryta carb., 650 

carbo veg., 485, 582 

dulcamara, 434 

hydrocyanic acid, 336, 538 

kali hydr., 582 

lachesis, 582 

moschus, 485, 582 

phosphorus, 480 
LUNGS, SPASMS OF THE 

moschus, 273 

ipecac, 273 

opium, 273 
LYING-IN 

aconite, 325 

ambra grisea, 152 

arnica, 242 

arsenicum, 271 

bryonia, 301 

causticum, 250 

chamomilla, 250 

croton tiglinum, 302 

helonias, 257 

hyoscyamus, 271 

opium, 271 

phellandrium, 302 

Phytolacca, 302 

Pulsatilla, 355 
LYMPHATIC GLANDS 

(See Glands.) 

MALIGNANT PUSTULE 

lachesis, 71 
MAMMARY GLAND, AFFECTIONS OF 
THE 

apis, 574 

belladonna, 301, 419, 569, 574 

bromine, 503 

bryonia, 301 

carbo veg., 484 

croton tiglium, 302, 503 

paris quad., 503 

phellandrium, 302, 450 

phosphorus, 545, 569, 574 

Phytolacca, 302 

Pulsatilla, 356 

silicea, 569, 574 
MANIA 

hepar, 683 

hyoscyamus, 246, 430, 714 

kali bromatum, 430, 714 

stramonium, 429 

sulphur, 471 
MARASMUS 

abrotanum, 245 

antimonium crud., 645 

argentum nitricum, 272, 554 



MARASMUS (Continued) 

arsenicum, 553 

calcarea ostrearum, 469, 645 

calcarea phosphorica, 680 

cinchona, 554, 680 

hepar, 687 

iodine, 703 

magnesia carb., 644 

manganum, 663 

natrum carb., 645 

natrum mur., 703 

nux vomica, 554 

opium, 271 

phosphorus, 469 

podophyllum, 045 

rheum, 645 

sarsaparilla, 272 

sepia, 645 

sulphur, 272, 468, 554, 645 

sulphuric acid, 532 

thuja, 310 
MASTOID PROCESS, DISEASES OF 

aurum, 43, 435, 491, 602 

capsicum, 43, 435, 602 

carbo an., 491 

fluoric acid, 519 

nitric acid, 43, 435, 491, 602 

silicea, 43, 545, 602 
MASTURBATION 

(See Sexual Excesses.) 
MEASLES 

aconite, 174, 326, 361 

antimonium tart., 581, 583 

belladonna, 174 

bryonia, 302 

cuprum, 424 

gelsemium, 174, 326 

ipecac, 303 

kali bichromicum, 361, 725 

Pulsatilla, 174, 326, 361 

stramonium, 424 

zincum, 425, 633 
MENIERE'S DISEASE 

carbon bisulphide, 733 

causticum, 733 

cinchona, 733 

salicylic acid, 733 
MENINGITIS 

aconite, 294, 320, 407 

apis, 100, 294 

arsenicum, 102 

arum tri., 210 

belladonna, 42, 94, 101, 105, 294, 407, 403, 
59i 

bryonia, 101, 105, 294, 407 

calcarea ostr., 409 

cuprum, 101, 630 

digitalis, 337, 393 

glonoin, 101 

helleborus, 101, 336. 

hyoscyamus, 427 

lachesis, 42 

mercurius, 591 

picric acid, 97 

rhus tox., 102 

sulphur, 101, 104, 294, 409 



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THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



MENINGITIS (Continued) 

zinc, 102, 337. 633, 634 
MENINGITIS, TUBERCULAR 

(See Meningitis.) 
MENORRHAGIA 

arsenicum, 482 

calcarea ostrearum, 673 

carbo veg., 482 

cinchona, 482 

ipecacuanha, 482 

mercurius, 592 

trillium pendulum, 673 

vinca minor, 167 
MENSES 

ambra grisea, 152, 158 

ammonium carb., 65 

belladonna, 613 

berberis, 452 

bovista, 158 

bryonia, 301 

calcarea ostrearum, 672, 673 

carbo an., 140 

carbo veg., 141 

castoreum, 121 

causticum, 735 

chamomilla, 263 

cocculus, 262 

crocus, 613 

ferrum, 641 

graphites, 141, 493 

hamamelis, 301 

juglans regia, 207 

kali carb., 700 

kreosote, 136 

lachesis, 62 

lithium carb., 655 

magnesium carb., 645 

magnesium mur., 120, 647 

millefolium, 301^ 613 

moschus, 65 

murex, 135 

natrum mur., 700 

nux vomica, 193 

phosphorus, 301, 569 

platina, 65, 613 

Pulsatilla, 138, 301, 355 

sabina, 613 

senecio, 301, 359 

sepia, 133 

ustilago, 301 

zincum, 633, 638 
MENTAL FATIGUE 

anacardium, 219 
MENTAL SYMPTOMS 

abies nigra, 305 

aconite, 316, 321, 409 

actea racemosa, 39 

agaricus, 39, 423 

alumina, 617 

anacardium, 218, 219, 302 

antimonium crudum, 219, 308, 577 

antimonium tart., 581 

apis, 99 

argentum nitricum, 605, 612 

arsenicum, 443, 551 

arum tri., 209 



MENTAL SYMPTOMS (Continued) 
aurum, 139, 603 
baptisia, 398, 437 
baryta carb., 650, 679 
belladonna, 218, 294 
bovista, 102 
bromine, 502 
bryonia, 299, 619 
calcarea ostrearum, 293, 617 
calcarea phosphorica, 679 
cannabis indica, 89, 269 
causticum, 126, 288, 729 
chamomilla, 248, 288, 344 
chelidonium, 281 
cinchona, 293, 369 
cocculus, 199 
coffea, 322, 384 
colocynth, 288 
conium, 448 
cypripedium, 384 
digitalis, 389 
dulcamara, 683 
fluoric acid, 440 
gelsemium, 232, 272 
glonoin, 427, 500 
graphites, 57, 493 
helonias, 134 
hepar, 127, 682 

hyoscyamus, 102, 198, 420, 427, 437, 612 
ignatia, 102, 197, 344, 528 
ipecac, 377 
iodine, 502, 614 

kali bromatum, 437, 606, 612, 715 
kali carb., 443, 748 

lachesis, 36, 38, 102, 218, 437, 617, 683 
lilium tigrinum, 127 
lycopodium, 37, 440, 613 
mercurius, 590 
moschus, 79, 116 
muriatic acid, 521 
mygale, 75 
natrum carb., 689 
natrum mur., 102, 126, 142, 198, 344, 624, 

699 
nitric acid, 219, 535 
nux moschata, 118 
nux vomica, 102, 344, 618 
oleander, 165 
opium, 272 

palladium, 64, 78, 615 
paris quad., 39 
petroleum, 424, 437, 500 
phosphoric acid, 197, 272, 471, 526, 738 
phosphorus, 562 
platina, 78, 127, 612, 615 
Pulsatilla, 126, 197, 343, 344, 617, 623, 700 
rhus tox., 226, 437 
sabadilla, 258 
saccharum alb., 669 
sanguinaria, 275 

sepia, 121, 244, 347, 617, 624, 690, 700 
silicea, 272 
spigelia, 205 
stannum, 344, 623 
staphisagria, 248, 338, 339 
stramonium, 218, 255, 423, 424, 429 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



809 



MENTAL SYMPTOMS (Continued) 

sulphur, 37, 471, 683 

sulphuric acid, 531 

thuja, 258, 308, 424 

valerian, 118 

veratrum album, 255, 272 

zizia, 146 
METRITIS 

belladonna, 414 

berberis, 452 

kali carb., 741 

mel cum sale, 112, 415 

rhus tox., 234 

terebinthina, 305, 306 
METRITIS, PUERPERAL 

(See Puerperal Metritis.) 
METRORRHAGIA 

ambra, 152 

arsenicum, 65, 482 

belladonna, 272, 368, 421 

bovista, 157 

cantharis, 355 

carbo an., 490 

carbo veg., 368, 482 

cinchona, 368, 482 

cinnamon, 369 

erygeron, 159, 368 

ferrum, 642 

glonoin, 278 

gossypium, 355 

hamamelis, 159, 369 

hyoscyamus, 272 

ipecacuanha, 482 

lachesis, 278 

kali ferrocyan., 144 

mercurius, 592 

millefolium, 368 

mitchella, 159 

nitrite of amyl, 278 

nux vomica, 194 

opium, 272 

Pulsatilla, 355 

sabina, 305, 368 

sanguinaria, 278 

secale, 145, 155, 368 

trillium pend., 158, 368 

ustilago, 157, 158 
MILK FEVER 

aconite, 325 

bryonia, 301 
MILK LEG 

hamamelis, 356 

Pulsatilla, 356 
MISCARRIAGE 

(See Abortion.) 
MORBUS BRIGHTII 

(See Bright's Disease.) 
MOUTH 

apis, 47 

argentum nitricum, 609 

arsenicum, 47 

arum triphyllum, 710 

baptisia, 47 

borax, 709 

bryonia, 709 

carbo veg., 47 



MOUTH (Continued) 

iodine, 47 

kali chloricum, 47 

lachesis, 46, 47 

mercurius, 709 

muriatic acid, 47 

nitric acid, 47 

staphisagria, 47, 340 

sulphuric acid, 47 
MUCOUS MEMBRANES 

(See also Catarrhs.) 

alumina, 618 

ammonium carb., 658 

arsenicum, 557 

borax, 710 

bromine, 503 

cantharis, 94 

graphites, 497 

hydrastis, 360 

ipecacuanha, 376 

kali bichromicum, 720 

lithium carb., 655 

lycopodium, 445 

natrum carb., 693 

natrum mur., 142, 702 

nitric acid, 533 

petroleum, 499 

phosphoric acid, 529 

Pulsatilla, 347 

senecio, 359 

silicea, 545 

stannum, 626 
MULTIPLE CEREBRO-SPINAL SCLE- 
ROSIS 

baryta carb., 650 

baryta mur., 650 

hyoscyamus, 650 

plumbum, 622 
MUSCULAR EXERTION, ILL-EFFECTS 
OF 

arnica, 229, 239 

arsenicum, 230, 521 

coca, 521 

fluoric acid, 520 

rhus tox., 229, 521 
MUSCULAR EXHAUSTION 

conium, 336 

curare, 336 

gelesmium, 336 

kali carb., 336 

muriatic acid, 336, 525 

opium, 336 

saponin, 336 
MYALGIA 

actea rac, 143, 327 

arnica, 240 
MYELITIS 

artemisia abrotaum, 244 

dulcamara, 236 

nux vomica, 194 

picric acid, 97 
MYOCARDITIS 

phosphorus, 572 

NAEVI 

fluoric acid, 441, 521 



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THKRAPKUTIC INDEX. 



NAEVI (Continued) 

lycopodium, 441 
NAILo 

antimonium crudum, 579 

fluoric acid, 520 

thuja, 310, 520 
NASAL CATARRH 

alumina, 617, 619 

ambra, 661 

ammonium carb., 661 

ammonium mur., 661 

antimonium crudum, 497 

arum triphyllum, 498 

aurum, 602 

bromine, 504 

bryonia, 294 

calcarea ostrearum, 498, 671 

cinnabaris, 595 

cistus canad., 656 

corallium rubrum, 656 

cyclamen, 348 

euphrasia, 380 

graphites, 497 

hydrastis, 360 

kali bichromicum, 656, 661, 722 

kali carb., 739 

kali sulph., 594 

lachesis, 49, 294 

lithium carb., 655 

lycopodium, 445 

mercurius, 594 

natrum carb., 693 

nux vomica, 594 

phosphorus, 569 

Pulsatilla, 348, 594 

sepia, 656 

silicea, 546 

sulphur, 473 

teucrium, 656 
NECROSIS OF THE LOWER JAW 

angustura, 180 

calcarea fluor., 666 

phosphorus, 573 
NEPHRALGIA 

argentum nitr., 613 
NEPHRITIS 

aconite, 325 

cannabis sativa, 89 

cantharis, 88 

helleborus, 337 

kali carb., 741 
NERVOUS SYSTEM 

actea racemosa, 76, 143, 3:7 

agaricus muse, 79 

alumina, 145 

ambra grisea, 151, 195, 715 

ammonium carb., 79 

ammonium mur., 662 

aranea, 81 

argentum nitricum, 606 

arnica, 369 

arsenicum, 79 

asafoetida, 79, 119, 120, 449 

asarum, 79, 195 

belladonna, 77, 408 

borax, 708 



NERVOUS SYSTEM (Continued) 

bryonia, 691 

calcarea ostrearum, 195, 675 

castoreum, 117, 195 

causticum, 77 

chamomilla, 248 

cicuta, 79 

cinchona, 369 

cocculus, 195, 259 

colocynth, 287 

crocus, 71 

curare, 179, 206 

dulcamara, 434 

gelsemium, 169 

hepar, 248, 682 

hydrocyanic acid, 537 

hyoscyamus, 77, 79 

ignatia, 78 

kali bromatum, 76, 606, 713, 715 

kali carb., 195, 738 

magnesia mur., 120, 121, 648 

magnesia phos., 648 

mephitis, 27, 79 

moschus, 79, 115 

muriatic acid, 521 

mygale, 73 

natrum carb., 691 

natrum mur., 79, 606, 691 

nitric acid, 691 

nux moschata, 118, 121, 248 

opium, 267 

palladium, 78 

petroleum, 500, 691 

phosphorus, 562, 691 

piper methysticum, 82, 385 

platina, 78 

rhododendron, 691 

selenium, 459 

sepia, 123, 691 

silicea, 547, 691 

spigelia, 369 

sticta, 79 

stramonium, 79 

sulphur, 195, 471 

tarantula, 75, 714 

thuja, 307 

Valeriana, 118, 121, 248 

veratrum alb., 195, 248 

zincum, 79, 632 
NEURALGIA 

(See also Prosopalgia.) 

aconite, 321, 322 

actea racemosa, 327, 356 

ammonium carb., 663 

ammonium mur., 662 

amyl nitrite, 322, 419 

argentum met., 611 

arsenicum, 467, 555 

belladonna, 419, 613, 682 

cactus, 419, 555 

capsicum, 614 

cedron, 288, 328, 374, 555 

cepa, 241, 663 

chamomilla, 288, 644 

chelidonium, 282 

chininum sulph., 467, 555 



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NEURALGIA (Continued) 

cinchona, 369, 37+, 467 

colchicum, 322 

colocynth, 285 

cuprum, 630 

cuprum arsenicosum, 630 

dioscorea, 285 

ferrum, 640 

ferrum carb., 420 

hamamelis, 352 

hepar, 582 

ignatia, 203 

kalmia, 328, 555, 625 

kreosote, 301, 555 

magnesia carb., 120, 644 

magnesia phos., 120, 555 

mezereum, 308, 555 

natrum mur., 625 

platina, 420, 613, 625 

prunus spinosa, 288 

Pulsatilla, 361 

robinia, 555 

sepia, 432 

silicea, 683 

spigelia, 205, 288, 308, 321, 327. 

stannum, 607, 625 

staphysagria, 663 

strontiana carb., 625 

sulphur, 467, 683 

tabacum, 432 

theridion, 82 

thuja, 308 

valerian, 555 

verbascum, 395, 419 
NEURALGIA, CILIARY 

actea racemosa, 137 

cedron, 206 

colocynth, 288 

crotalus horr., 43 

mezereum, 205 

natium mur., 701 

spigelia, 205, 701 

thuja, 206 
NEURASTHENIA 

aletris farinosa, 359 

alumina, 541 

argentum nitricum, 541 

calcarea ostrearum, 624 

cocculus indicus, 624 

collinsonia, 624 

cyclamen, 359 

helonias, 357 

ignatia, 624 

natrum mur., 624 

phosphoric acid, 367, 541, 6;?4 

phosphorus. 367, 541, 624 

picric acid, 539 

silicea, 541 

stannum, 623 

sulphur, 624 

veratrum alb., 624 

zincum, 541 
NIGHT TERRORS 

kali bromatum, 413, 714 
NIPPLES, SORE 

castor equi, 28 



NIPPLES, CORE (Continued) 

graphites, 141 

Phytolacca, 141 

sepia, 141 
NOMA 

conium, 449 
NOSE 

aurum, 602 

borax, 710 

graphites, 86 

ignatia, 276 

lithium carb., 655 

natrum carb., 693 

nux vomica, 276 

phosphorus, 276 

sanguinaria, 276 

Valeriana, 276 
NOSTALGIA 

mercurius, 590 
NYMPHOMANIA 

caladium, 613 

camphor, 94 

cantharis, 97 

hyoscyamus, 563 

phosphorus, 562, 569 

platina, 64, 140, 612 

stramonium, 425 

veraturm alb., 255, 429 

OBESITY 

graphites, 493 
OBJECTIVE SYMPTOMS, 19 
OEDEMA 

bovista, 158 
OEDEMA GLOTTIDIS 

apis, no 
OEDEMA PULMONUM 

apis, no 
OESOPHAGITIS 

arsenic, 414 

belladonna, 414 

rhus tox., 414 

veratrum viride, 257, 414 
OESOPHAGUS, SPASMODIC STRICTURE 
OF THE 

phosphorus, 568 
OPHTHALMIA 

antimonium crudum, 217 

antimonium tart., 300 

argentum nitricum, 217, 234 

bryonia, 300 
OPHTHALMIA, ARTHRITIS 

antimonium tart., 300 

bryonia, 300 

colocynth, 288, 341 

euphrasia, 189, 683 

staphysagria, 341 
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM 

argentum nitricum, 347, 608 

mercurius corrosivus, 347 

Pulsatilla, 347, 608 
OPHTHALMIA, PURULENT 

argentum nitricum, 60S 

graphites, 347 

hepar, 683 

Pulsatilla, 608 



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THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



OPHTHALMIA, SCROFULOUS 

apis, 113 

argentum nitricum, 702 

arsenicum, 494, 495, 702 

aurum, 601, 602 

baryta carb., 652 

calcarea ostrearum, 494, 495, 669 

conium, 448 

euphrasia, 496 

graphites, 494, 702 

hepar, 486 

kali bichromicum, 113, 72^ 

lachesis, 42 

mercurius, 496, 593 

mercurius, 593 

natrum mur., 702 

nux vomica, 189 

vhns tox., 235 

sulphur, 473, 494, 495 
ORCHITIS 

aurum, 603 

clematis, 352 

gelsemium, 513 

hamamelis, 352, 512 

mercurius, 513 

Pulsatilla, 310, 352 

rhododendron, 352 

spongia, 512 

thuja, 310 
OSTEOMA 

calcarea fluorica, 519, 666 
OSTEITIS 

conchiolin, 680 

stillingia, 341 

strontiana carb., 341 
OTALGIA 

belladonna, 683, 708 

borax, 708 

chamomilla, 349, 384, 683, 708 

dulcamara, 434 

hepar, 683 

kali bichromicum, 721 

plantago major, 349 

Pulsatilla, 348, 683, 708 

rhus tox., 235 
OTITIS EXTERNA 

calcarea ostrearum, 670 

hepar, 683 

Pulsatilla, 348, 354 
OTITIS MEDIA 

belladonna, 348, 411 

calcarea ostrearum, 670 

hepar, 412, 683 

kali bichromicum, 720 

mercurius, 349 

Pulsatilla, 348, 349 

silicea, 349, 435 

tellurium, 349, 412 
OTORRHOEA 

aurum, 43, 602 

borax, 708 

calcarea ostrearum, 670 

capsicum, 43 

carbo animalis, 491 

carbo veg., 491 

elaps, 43 



OTORRHOEA (Continued) 

he par, 43, 671 

kali bichromicum, 721 

lachesis, 43 

mercurius, 671 

natrum hypochlor., 692 

nitric acid, 43 

psorinum, 149 

Pulsatilla, 348 

silicea, 43, 349, 545, 670 

tellurium, 349, 412 
OVARALGIA. 

colocynth, 286 

lachesis, 62 
OVARIAN TUMORS 

apis, 64, 112, 510 

colocynth, 285, 510 

hepar, 62 

iodine, 510 

lachesis, 62 

mercurius, 62 
OVARIES 

f.pis, 64, 112 

argentum metallicum, 611, 616 

argentum nitricum, 605 

arsenicum, 65 

graphites, 65, 498 

iodine, 510 

lachesis, 62 

iilium tig., 133 

lycopodium, 65 

palladium, 65 

phosphoric acid, 528 

platina, 64 

staphisagria, 339 

tarentula, 76 

zincum, 65, 633, 638 
OVARITIS 

apis, 112 

arsenicum, 552 

lachesis, 62, 613 

palladium, 64, 66, 613 

platina, 64, 613 
OZAENA 

alumina, 617 

aurum, 49, 602 

kali bichromicum, 49, 310, 722 

kali hyd., 64, 717 

lac caninum, 49 

lachesis, 49, 51 

magnesium mur., 647 

mercurius corr., 596 

mercurius vivus, 49 

natrum carb., 693 

nitric acid, 49 

petroleum, 499 

phosphorus, 569 

Pulsatilla, 310 

silicea, 647 

stillingia, 341 

theridion, 83 

thuja, 310 

PANARITIUM 
apis, 114 
sulphur, 114 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



813 



PANCREAS, AFFECTIONS OF THE 

iodine, 510 

phosphorus, =;68 
PANNUS 

aurum, 601 
PARALYSIS 

aconite, 315, 322, 731 

antimonium tart., 537 

apis, 107 

arsenicum, 537 

baryta carb., 650, 731 

cannabis indica, 322 

causticum, 322, 650, 729, 731 

cocculus ind., 315, 624 

colchicum, 731 

collinsonia, 624 

ccnium, 315, 447 

cuprum, 537, 630 

curare, 179 

dulcamara, 34. 731 

gelsemium, 166, 170, 315, 448, 606 

hyoscyamus, 426 

ignatia, 624 

manganum, 663 

muriatic acid, 731 

natrum mur., 170, 624, 627 

nitric acid, 537 

nux vomica, 315, 731 

oleander, 165, 166 

phosphorus, 537, 564, 569, 624 

plumbum, 621, 622, 632 

rhus tox., 236, 322, 632 

secale, 650 

silicea, 547 

stannum, 170, 624, 672 

staphisagria, 170, 332, 627 

sulphur, 107, 236, 322, 472, 541 

zincum, 636 
PARALYSIS, POST-DIPHTHERITIC 

argentum nitricum, 606 

cocculus, 448 

conium, 448 

gelsemium, 171, 448, 606 

physostigma, 178 

rhus tox., 236 

sulphur, 236 
PARAPHIMOSIS 

colocynth, 288, 394 

digitalis, 394 
PAROTITIS 

abrotanum, 245 

arsenicum, 245 

belladonna, 412 

calcarea ostr., 443 

carbo veg., 245 

lachesis, 443 

lycopodium, 442 

Pulsatilla, 245 

rhus tox., 443 
PEDICULI 

staphisagria, 340 
PEMPHIGUS 

caltha, 87 

cantharis, 87 

carboneum oxygenisatum, 87 

causticum, 87 



PEMPHIGUS (Continued) 

chi-tinum sulph., 87 

copaiva, 87 

nitric acid, 87 

ranunculus bulbcsus, 87, 332 

ranunculus sceleratus, 87 

rhus tox., 87 

sulphuric acid, 87 
PERICARDITIS 

anacardium, 221 

arsenicum, 558 

colchicum, 254 

kali carb., 741 

kali hydr., 718 
PERIODONTITIS 

hepar, 46 

lachesis, 46 

mercurius, 46 

silicea, 46 
PERIOSTEUM, INURIES TO THE 

angustura, 180 

ruta, 180 
PERIOSTITIS 

aranea diadema, 81 

asafoetida, 450 

stillingea, 341 
PERIPROCTITIS 

lachesis, 60 

rhus tox., 60 
PERITONITIS 

arnica, 60 

baptisia, 59 

belladonna, 59, 415 

berberis, 452 

bryonia, 293 

bufo, 30 

carbo veg., 57 

colchicum, 60 

lachesis, 55, 59 

lycopodium, 271 

mercurius, 592 

opium, 271 

ranunculus bulb., 331 

raphanus, 271 

rhus tox., 59, 225, 234 

sulphur, 472 

terebinth., 271, 305 
PERITYPHLITIS 

rhus tox., 234 
PETIT MAL 

absinthium, 420 

artemesia vulgaris, 243 

causticum, 734 
PHARYNGITIS 

kali bicarbonicum, 721 

kali carbonicum, 740 

Pulsatilla. 349 
PHARYNGITIS FOLLICULAR 

aesculus hippocastanus, 722 

hepar, 722 

kali bichromicum 722 

kali chloricum, 722 

mercurius jodatus, 722 

nux vomica, 722 

secale, 722 



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THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



PHIMOSIS 

mercurius, 352 

sulphur, 478 
PHLEBITIS 

lachesis, 63 
PHLYCTENULAR OPHTHALMIA 

arsenicum, 397 

euphrasia, 397, 496 

graphites, 495 

ignatia, 203 

natrum carb., 693 

rhus tox., 235 
PHTHISIS 

(See also Tuberculosis.) 

actea racemosa, 328 

ammonium mur., 664 

anisum stellatum, 83, 306 

balsam of Peru, 627 

baptisia, 403 

calcarea ostrearum, 536, 673 

carba animalis, 490 

carbo veg., 490 

coccus cacti, 627 

codein, 265 

conium, 448 

drosera, 27, 273 

elaps., 51 

eyrodiction, 215 

ferrum, 639, 641 

ferrum phos., 642 

guaiacum, 215, 298, 329 

hydrocyanic acid, 538 

iodine, 509 

kali carb., 536, 740 

kali hydriodicum, 718 

laurocerasus, 538 

myrtus communis, 83, 306 

natrum sulph., 694 

nitric acid, 536 

phellandrium, 546 

phosphorus, 509, 626 

pix liquida, 83, 306 

rumex, 296 

sanguinaria, 278 

senega, 626 

silicea, 546, 626 

spongia, 513 

stannum, 623, 626, 706 

sulphur, 474 

theridion, 83 

yerba santa, 215, 627, 718 
PLEURISY 

aconite, 293, 323 

apis, 103, 472 

bryonia, 293, 295 

ranunculus bulbosus, 331 

stannum, 627 

sulphur, 103, 472 
PLEURODYNIA 

aconite, 331 

actea racemosa, 296, 329 

arnica, 296 

asclepias tuberosa, 296 

bryonia, 295, 570 

gaultheria, 295 

guaiacum, 329 



PLEURODYNIA (Continued) 

kali carb., 296 

ranunculus bulb., 295, 331 

rhus radicans, 231, 296 

rumex crispus, 296 

senega, 296 
PLICA POLONICA 

vinca minor, 167 
PNEUMONIA 

aconite, 295, 323 

ammonium carb., 659 

antimonium tart., 279, 283, 295, 583 

bromine, 567 

bryonia, 295, 323 

carbo animalis, 490 

carbo veg., 484, 485 

chelidonium, 282 

cuprum, 630 

elaps, 51 

ferrum phos., 159, 642 

hepar, 685 

iodine, 508 

kali carb., 283, 740 

kali hydriodicum, 717 

lachesis, 51, 474 

lycopodium, 446 

mercurius, 283, 592 

moschus, 121 

phosphorus, 279, 381, 571 

ranunculus bulb., 331 

rhus tox., 225, 227 

sanguinaria, 278 

sulphur, 51, 279, 466, 473 

terebinth., 305, 306 

veratrum viride, 257, 279, 319, 3r 
POLYPI 

calcarea ostrearum, 570 

calcarea phosphorica, 570 

ledum, 369, 

phosphorus, 36, 570 

sanguinaria, 280 

teucrium marum verum, 

vinca minor, 369 
POLYURIA 

arctium lappa, 168 

gelsemium, 460 

ignatia, 171, 460 

kalmia, 171 

lac defloratum, 460 

moschus, 136, 460 

oleum animale, 171 

phosphoric acid., 530 

sanguinaria, 171 

selenium, 460 

silicea, 171 
POST-NASAL CATARRH 

baryta carb., 652, 656 

calcarea ostrearum, 656 

hydrastis, 349, 656, 722 

kali bichromicum, 656, 722 

lithium carb., 656 

natrum carb., 693 

petroleum, 499 

sepia, 656 

spigelia, 348, 722 

teucrium marum verum, 656 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



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POST-NASAL CATARRH (Continued) 

theridion, 348 
POTT'S DISEASE 

(See Vertebral Caries.) 
PREGNANCY 

actea racemosa, 328 

aconite, 325 

anacardium, 220 

apis, 112 

caulophyllum, 357 

digitalis, 388 

hamamelis, 346, 355 

lycopodium, 441 

magnesia carb., 64.5 

natrum carb., 691 

mix vomica, 193, 691 

psorinum, 150 

Pulsatilla, 351, 355 

zincum, 637 
PRIAPISM 

agaricus, 541 

ambra grisea, 541 

cantharis, 96, 541 

capsicum, 541 

mygale, 541 

opium, 541 

petroselinum, 541 

phosphorus, 541 

physostigma, 541 

picric acid, 97, 194, 539 

platina, 541 

Pulsatilla, 541 
PROCTALGIA 

ignatia, 60 
PROCTITIS 

aesculus, 705 

collinsonia, 705 

natrum mur., 704 
PROFANITY 

anacardium, 219 

nitric acid, 219 
PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY 

plumbum, 622 
PROLAPSUS ANI 

ignatia, 203 

natrum mur., 704 

podophyllum, 138, 454, 625 
PROLAPSUS UTERI 

abies canadensis, 146 

aletris farinosa, 146 

aloes, 137 

antimonium crudum, 580 

apis, 64, 113 

argentum met., 599, 616 

aurum, 139, 603, 613 

aurum muriat. natr., 603 

calcarea ostr., 145 

calcarea phos., 145, 625 

caulophyllum, 146 

collinsonia, 188 

ferrum, 643 

ferrum jod., 643 

graphites, 141 

helonias, 146, 358 

hydrastis, 360 

lac denoratum, 146 



PROLAPSUS UTERI (Continued) 

lilium tigrinum, 133 

mel cum sale, 112 

melilotus, 2.-]"] 

natrum hypochlorosum, 143, 146 

natrum mur., 142, 146, 700 

nux vomica, 193, 454, 625 

platina, 613 

podophyllum, 138, 188, 454, 625 

Pulsatilla, 625 

secale, 145 
t sepia, 193, 454 

stannum, 136, 624 

staphisagria, 342 

ustilago, 145 
PROSOPALGIA 

(See also Neuralgia.) 

aconite, 321 

amyl nitrite, 322 

argentum nitricum, 607 

arsenicum, 614 

belladonna, 419 

capsicum, 614 

colchicum, 322 

ccnium, 449 

gelsemium, 1/4 

hepar, 684 

kreosote, 301 

lachesis, 46 

spigelia, 322 

stannum, 625 

verbascimi 614 

zinc, 637 
PROSTATE GLAND, ENLARGEMENT OF 
THE 

conium, 450 

Pulsatilla, 352 
PROSTATITIS 

Pulsatilla, 310 

thuja, 309 
PROSTATORRHOEA 

selenium, 459 

sulphur, 459 
PRURITIS VULVAE 

caladium, 337 

convallaria, 393 

hydrocotyle, 145 

natrum hypochlor., 143 
PSEUDO-CYESIS 

thuja, 308 
PSORA 

corallium rubrum, 30 

psorinum, 149 

sulphur, 463 
PSORIASIS 

arsenicum, 707 

arsenicum iod., 125, 707 

natrum ars., 707 

sepia, 125 
PTERYGIUM 

zincum, 637 
PTOSIS 

alumina, 131, 170, 618 

causticum, 170, 235, 398, 731 

euphrasia, 398 

gelsemium, 170, 235, 619 



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PTOSIS (Continued) 

kalmia, 170, 235 

natrum mur., 131 

rhus tox., 170, 235, 398 

sepia, 170, 235 
PTYALISM 

nitric acid, 534 
PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS 

argentum nitricum, 608 

belladonna, 420 

cantharis, 94 

cicuta, 451 

gelsemium, 175, 257 

glonoin, 43/, 438 

kali bromatum, 713 

kali carb., 738 

platina, 614 

secale, 437 

veratrum viride, 257 
PUERPERAL FEVER 

aconite, 325 

kali carb., 738, 741 

opium, 2T2. 
PUERPERAL MANIA 

actea racemosa, 328 

arsenicum 328 

calcarea ostrearum, 328 

hyoscyamus, 430 

.kali carb., 738 

lachesis, 328 
PUERPERAL METRITIS 

belladonna, 415 

kali carb., 741 

lachesis, 62 

mel cum sale, 415 

tilia curopea, 415 

terebinthina, 305 
PUERPERAL PERITONITIS 

belladonna, 415 
PULSE 

aconite, 317 

apis, 317 

belladonna, 317 

lycopodium, 441 

rhus, 225 
PYAEMIA 

arnica, 241 



QUINSY 

belladonna, 414 
fluoric acid, 414 
hepar, 414, 592 
lachesis, 592 
mercurius, 414, 592 
silicea, 414, 592 
sulphur, 414, 592 

RACHITIS 

calcarea phos., 679 
magnesia mur., 447 
phosphorus, 679 
silicea, 542, 647, 679 
sulphur, 468 
REACTION, DEFECTIVE 
(See Defective Reaction.) 



RECTUM 

aesculus, 705 

alumina, 705 

belladonna, 60 

causticum, 60 

cocculus, 60, 61 

graphites, 705 

ignatia, 50, 203 

kali bich., 60, 61 

lachesis, 52, 60 

magnesium mur., 705 

mezereum, 60 

natrum mur., 61, 705 

nitric acid, 60 

opium, 61 

plumbum, 60, 6t 

ratanhia, 705 
REMITTENT FEVEU. 

gelsemium, 172 

sulphur, 467 
RENAL CALCULI 

argentum nitricum, 610 

belladonna, 191 

berberis, 93, 192 

cantharis, 88, 191 

ipomea nil., 92 

lycopodium, 191, ,146 

nitric acid, 610 

nux vomica, 182, 191 

ocimum, 92 

tabacum, 182, 433 
RETAINED PLACENTA 

cantharis, 97, 355 

cinchona, 368 

gossypium, 355 

Pulsatilla, 355, 356, 368 

sabina, 356 

secale, 154, 356 

sepia, 356 
RETENTION OF URINE 

(See Urine, Retention of.) 
RETINA, ATROPHY OF THE 

(see Atrophy of the Retina.) 
RETINAL APOPLEXY 

(See Apoplexy of the Retina.) 
RETINAL CONGESTION 

aurum, 602 

belladonna, 602 

glonoin, 436, 602 

sulphur, 602 
RETINAL HYPERAESTHESIA 

actea racemosa, 144 

nux vomica, 189 
RETINITIS 

lycopodium, 443 

mercurius cor., 593 

phosphorus, 574 

spigelia, 205 
RETINITIS ALBUMINURIA 

mercurius cor., 593 

phosphorus, 574 
RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA 

lycopodium, 443 
RHEUMATISM 

abrotanum, 244 

actea spicata, 297, 327 



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RHEUMATISM (Continued) 

anacardium, 221, 231 

apis, 107 

apocynum, 164 

arctium lappa, 298 

arnica, 240 

bellauonna, 407, 422 

benzoic acid, 453 

berberis, 453 

bryonia, 297, 353 

calcarea fluorica, 677 

calcarea ostrearum, 453, 656, 677 

calcarea phos., 679 

caulophyllum, 297 

causticum, 288, 735 

chamomilla, 249, 353 

chininum sulph., 374 

cinchona, 374 

colchicum, 231, 232, 253, 298 

colocynth, 288, 735 

conium, 231 

dulcamara, 434 

ferrum, 231, 249, 281, 735 

gelsemium, 175 

guaiacum, 288, 289, 735 

iodine, 510 

kali bichromicum, 353, 728 

kali carb., 741 

kali hydriodicum, 719 

kalmia, 231, 392 

lac caninum, 353 

ledum, 232, 297. 353, 392, 548 

lithium carb., 463, 655, 656 

lycopodium, 231, 446, 453 

magnesia carb., 646 

manganum, 663 

mercurius, 311 

nux moschata, 646 

nux vomica, 195, 677 

petroleum, 499 

phosphoric acid, 735 

Pulsatilla, 231, 310, 353 

ranunculus bulb., 331 

rhododendron, 231 

rhus radicans, 231 

rhus tox., 230, 249, 297, 677, 735 

sabina, 298, 663 

sanguinaria, 280, 646, 735 

secale, 677 

silicea, 548 

sulphur, 353, 472 

thuja, 309 

valerian, 230 

veratrum album, 249 

viola odorata, 297 
RHUS POISONING 

ammonium carb., 222 

anacardium, 221 

croton tiglium, 222 

sepia, 125 

zincum, 634 
RIGIDITY OF THE OS UTERI 

belladonna, 421 

gelsemium, 139, 175, 421 
ROSE-COLD 

phosphorus, 276 

52 



ROSE-COLD (Continued) 
sanguinaria, 276 

SCABIES 

causticum, 476 

mercurius, 476 

oil of lavender, 150, 476 

psorinum, 150 

sepia, 125, 476 

sulphur, 125, 475 
SCARLATINA 

aconite, 325 

ailanthus, 212, 223, 403 

ammonium carb., 659, 660 

ammonium mur., 664 

anacardium, 302 

antimonium tart., 581, 583 

apis, 100, 104, 109, 524, 660 

arsenicum, 524, 558, 560 

arum triphyllum, 208, 233, 535 

baptisia, 212 

belladonna, 71, 100, 109, 233, 302, 417, 
428, 443, 634, 660 

bryonia, 302, 418 

calcarea ostrearum, 23s, 418, 635 

camphor, 635 

cinnabaris, 95, 596 

cuprum, 302, 443, 630, 634 

helleborus, 66, 302 

hydrocyanic acid, 524, 538, 635 

hyoscyamus, 418, 428 

lachesis, 42, 70, 233, 418, 660 

laurocerasus, 38 

lycopodium, 211, 418, 442, 446 

mancinella, 86, 313 

muriatic acid, 211, 524 

natrum ars., 524 

nitric acid, 210, 534 

psorinum, 148 

rhus tox., 102, 109, 225, 233 

stramonium, 302, 418, 425, 428, 443 

sulphur, 418, 466, 524 

suphuric acid, 524 

terebinthina, 66, 303 

veratrum alb., 635 

zincum, 302, 633, 634 
SCIATICA 

ammonium mur., 663 

colocynth, 288 

gnaphalium, 288, 614 

kali hydriodicum, 719 

valerian, 230 
SCIRRHUS 

ammonium carb., 659 

conium, 449 

lapis albus, 510 

magnesia mur., 202 
SCLEROTITIS 

aconite, 321 

belladonna, 412 

thuja, 310 
SCROFULOUS 

aurum, 599 

baryta carb., 649, 652 

bromine, 503 

calcarea ostrearum, 494, 497, 545, 591, 66g 



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THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



SCROFULOUS (Continued) 

causticum, 731 

conium, 449 

fluoric acid, 519 

graphites, 494 

iodine, 509 

lycopodium, 445 

magnesia mur., 048 

mercurius, 590 

nitric acid, 670 

oleum jecoris, 29 

phosphorus, 669 

silicea, 494, 544, 561, 648 

sulphur, 409, 494, 545, 591 

theridion, 83 

thuja, 310 
SCROFULOUS OPHTHALMIA 

(See Ophthalmia, Scrofulous.) 
SCURVY 

ammonium carb., 659 

chlorine, 511 

natrum mur., 698 
SEA-SICKNESS 

apomorphia, 265 

petroleum, 499 

theridion, 82 
SEBACEOUS GLA-.^S 

psorinum, 149 
SEMINAL EMISSIONS 

agnus castus, 175 

caladium seg., 175, 215 

calcarea ostr., 175, 192 

camphor, 175 

cinchona, 367, 529 

cobalt, 193 

conium, 175 

digitalis, 174, 394 

dioscorea, 174 

gelsemium, 175 

lycopodium, 175, 192 

natrum carb., 703 

natrum mur., 703 

natrum phos., 703 

nux vomica, 175, 192 

phosphoric acid, 529 

phosphorus, 175, 540, 503 

picric acid, 539 

selenium, 175, 459 

sepia, 175 

sulphur, 477 
SENILITY 

baryta carb., 649 
SEROUS MEMBRANES 

aconite, 293 

bryonia, 293 

ranunculus bulb., 331 
SEXUAL EXCESSES 

agnus castus, 674 

caladium, 175, 247, 339 

calcarea ostr., 192, 339, 477, 674 

cinchona, 367 

cobalt, 192 

conium, 448, 564 

dioscorea, 339 

gelsemium, 174, 339 

kali bromatum, 339 



SEXUAL EXCESSES (Continued) 

kali carb., 736 

lycopodium, 192, 339 

nux vomica, 192, 339, 477 

phosphorus, 564 

phosphoric acid, 529 

platina, 339, 614 

stannum, 627 

staphisagria, 193, 338 

sulphur, 192, 339, 477 

zincum, 633 
SHOCK 

helleborus, 337 
SKIN 

aconite, 326 

alumina, 620 

ammonium caust., 85 

anacardium occid., 85, 221 

anacardium orientale, 85, 220 

antimonium crudum, 86, 579, 702 

antimonium tart., 85, 581 

argemone mex., 274 

arnica, 242 

arsenicum, 559 

arum, tri., 185 

belladonna, 416 

borax, 711 

bufo, 30 

calcarea caustica, 85 

caltha, 85 

camphor, 85, 586 

cantharis, 84 

cantharis strygosa, 84 

capsicum, 85, 86, 404 

carbolic acid, 85 

carbo animalis, 688 

carboneum oxyg., 87 

causticum, 87, 702, 735 

chamomilla, 688 

chelidoneum, 85 

chininum sulph., 87 

chloral, 87 

cicuta, 451, 677 

clematis erecta, 85, 86, 560 

clematis viorna, 314 

cochlearia, 85 

coffea, 384 

comocladia, 217 

copaiva, 87 

cotura, 85 

croton tiglium, 85, 313, 688 

cuprum ars., 85 

cuprum met., 85 

drosera, 85 

dulcamara, 434 

euphorbia cyparissias, 86 

euphorbia peplus, 86 

euphorbium off., 46, 85, 217, 313 

fluoric acid, 520 

tormica, 85, 86 

gelsemium, 174 

graphites, 141, 493, 494, 495, 560, 688, 702 

grindelia robusta, 222 

hepar, 687 

hydrocotyle, 560 

hura brasiliensis, 85 



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SKIN (Continued) 

iuglans cinerea, 207 

kali bichromicum, 87, 725 

kali bromatum, 87, 715 

kali hydriodicum, 87, 7/9 

kali nitricum, 87 

kali sulph., 87 

kreosote, 560 

lachesis, 85 

lithium carb., 655, 677 

lycopodium, 688 

lytta vitata, 84 

magnesia mur., 647 

ir.ancinella, 86, 313 

rvercurius, 85, 688 

mezereum, 85, 86, 168 

natrum carb., 689 

natrum mur., 688, 698, 702, 705 

n-tric acid, 85 

nux vomica, 85, 168, 234 

cleander, 166 

j,e'troleum, 311, 49:;, 408 

picric acid, 85 

piper nigrum, 85, 86 

pix liquida, 85, 86, 87, 306 

podophyllum, 85 

psorinum, 149, 688 

Pulsatilla, 85 

ranunculus bulb., 85, 86, 330, 332 

ranunculus sceleratus, 60, 87, 330, 333 

rhus tox., 85, 232, 560 

sanguinaria, 276 

sarsaparilla, 311 

selenium, 461 

sepia, 123, 125, 560, 688 

silicea, 688 

sinapis nigra, 85 

staphisagria, 339 

strontiana carb., 654 

sulphur, 166, 461, 475 

sulphuric acid, 85, 87 

terebinthina, 85. 86, 87 

thapsia garganica, 85, 86 

thuja, 688 

veratrum alb., 85 

viola tricolor, 167 

yucca filamentosa, 313 

zincum, 638 
SLEEP 

belladonna. 109, 454 

cocculus, 361 

cuprum, 443 

cypripedium, 384 

digitalis, 389 

fluoric acid, 521 

hyoscyamus, 428 

kali bromatum, 714 

lachesis, 36 

lycopodium, 443 

mephitis, 521 

nux vomica, 184, 196, 361 

phosphoric acid, 529 

Pulsatilla, 362 

selenium, 461 

stramonium, 443 

sulphur, 361, 461 



SLEEP (Continued) 

zincum. 443 
SPEECH 

bovista, 425 

fluoric acid, 440 

glonoin, 437 

lachesis, 440 

lycopodium, 440 

stramonium, 425 

sulphur, 440 
SPERMATORRHOEA 

agnus castus, 175 

caladium, 175, 215 

conium, 638 

discorea, 174 

gelsemium, 1 74 

zincum, 638 
SPINAL CONGESTION 

sulphur, 471, 541 
SriNAL CORD 

alumina, 541 

anacarium, 221 

argentum nitricum, 605, 620 

cocculus, 260 

dulcamara, 434 

hypericum, 241 

kali hydriodicum, 719 

nux vomica, 194, 620 

phosphorus, 564 

picric acid, 538 

silicea, 547, 548 

sulphur, 472, 541, 620 

zincum, 632, 636 
SPIinAL CORD, SOFTENING OF THE 

ambra grisea, 151 

oxalic acid, 540 
SPINAL IRRITATION 

actea racemosa, 329, 739 

agaricus, 329 

cobalt, 193, 361, 636 

cocculus, 330 

kali carb., 738 

natrum mur., 329, 700, 739 

nux vomica, 194, 330, 620 ' 

phosphorus, 195, 563 

physostigma, 195, 320 

picric acid, 194 

Pulsatilla, 361 

sepia, 636, 739 

sulphur, 471 

theridion, 82 

zincum, 330, 633, 636 
SPINAL WEAKNESS 

sulphur, 472 
SPLEEN 

aranea diadema, 80 

chininum sulph., 80, 365 

cinchona, 80 
SPOTTED FEVER 

(See Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.) 
SPRAINS 

ammonium carb., 662 

ammonium mur., 663 

arnica, 654, 662 

calcarea carb., 229 

petroleum, 499 



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THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



SPRAINS (Continued) 

rhus tox., 229 

ruta, 654 

strontiana carb., 654 

sulphuric acid. 662 
STAPHYLOMA 

apis, 113 
STOMACACE 

nitric acid, 534 

nux vomica, 190 

ranunculus sceleratus, 333 
STOMACH 

abrotanum, 341 

actea racemosa, 132 

calcarea ostrearum, 132 

cantharis, 95 

carbo animalis, 132, 166, 490 

cocculus, 132 

colchicum, 58 

elaps, 58, 324 

hydrastis, 132 

ignatia, 132 

ipecacuanha, 132, 341 

kali carb., 132 

lachesis, 52, 58 

lycopodium, 131 

niccolum, 132 

nux vomica, 59, 132 

oleander, 132, 165 

podophyllum, 138 

sarsaparilla, 132 

sepia, 131 

stannum, 132 

staphisagria, 132, 341, 460 

sulphur, 132 

thea, 132, 377 

veratrum alb., 59 
STOMACH, CANCER OF THE 

conium, 449 

phosphorus, 568, 575 
STOMACH, ULCER OF THE 

phosphorus, 568 
STOMATETIS 

(See also Sore Mouth.) 

apis, 95 _ 

arum tri., 710 
STRABISMUS 

alumina, 617, 618 

belladonna, 617, 

cina, 246, 617 

cyclamen, 617 

gelsemium, 171 
STUTTERING 

bovista, 425 

causticum, 731 

staphysagria, 342 

stramonium, 425 
STYES 

graphites, 494 

hepar, 687 

lycopodium, 443 

staphisagria, 340 
SUBINVOLUTION OF THE UTERUS 

lilium tigrinum, 133 

mel cum sale, 112 



SUICIDAL TENDENCY 

anacardium, 219 

antimonium crudum, 219 
SUN, ILL EFFECTS OF THE 

aconite, 320 

belladonna, 320 

camphor, 38 

glonoin, 426, 437 

lachesis, 38 

natrum carb., 38, 691 

natrum mur., 38 

theridion, 38 

thuja, 38 
SUPPRESSED ERUPTIONS, ILL EFFECTS 
OF 

antimonium tart., 303, 581 

apis, 100, 470 

bryonia, 101, 290, 302 

cuprum, 101, 302, 434, 630, 634 

helleborus, 101 

ipecacuanha, 303 

sulphur, 101, 105, 464, 470 

thuja, 308 

zinc, 101, 302, 367, 443, 633 
SWEAT 

baryta carb., 653 

bryonia, 300 

calcarea carb., 668 

carbo veg., 653 

chamomilla, 566 

cinchona, 373 

graphites, 653 

kali carb., 653 

lactic acid, 653 

magnesia mur., 647 

mercurius, 591 

natrum mur., 300 

nitric acid, 653 

petroleum, 499 

phosphorus, 566 

psorinum, 374 

rhus tox., 545, 566 

silicea, 544, 647, 653 

sulphur, 374 

thuja, 653 
SYCOSIS 

cinnabaris, 311 

euphrasia, 398 

kali bichromicum, 310, 726 

natrum sulph., 694 

nitric acid, 310 

petroleum, 398 

Pulsatilla, 310, 726 

sabina, 311 

sarsaparilla, 311, 726 

staphisagria, 340 

thuja, 307, 309, 694, 726 
SYNCOPE 

arsenicum, 37 

camphor, 37, 38 

digitalis, 37, 38 

hydrocyanic acid, 37 

lachesis, 37 

laurocerasus, 37, 38 

linaria, 394 

theridion, 37 



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SYNCOPE (Continued) 

veratrum album, 37, 38 
SYNOVITIS 

apis, 103, 296, 353 

bryonia, 103, 296, 353 

iodine, 103 

kali hyd., 103 

Pulsatilla, 353 

sulphur, 297, 472 
SYPHILIS 

asafoetida, 602 

aurum, 601, 602 

badiaga, 491 

carbo animalis, 498, 491 

carbo veg., 491 

cinnabaris, 311, 595 

corallium rubrum, 30 

fluoric acid, 519 

kali bichromicum, 723 

kali hydriodicum, 64, 716, 719 

lachesis, 62 

lycopodium, 63 

mercurius biniod., 491, 597 

mercurius cor., 593, 596, 602 

mercurius prot., 597 

mercurius vivus, 591, 593, 596 

nitric acid, 63, 491, 534, 535, 602 

platina mur., 614 

staphisagria, 340 

stillingea, 341, 695 

TABES MESENTERICA 

baryta carb., 652 

calcarea phos., 653 

iodine, 502, 509, 653 

silicea, 653 

sulphur, 470 
TAPE WORM 

argemone mexicana, 274 

cucurbita, 285 

pumpkin seeds, 285 
TARSAL CYSTS 

graphites, 340 

thuja, 130 
TEETH 

antimonium crudum, 340 

chamomilla, 340, 645 

coffea, 340 

fluoric acid, 46 

kreosote, 48, 301, 340 

lachesis, 46 

magnesia carb., 645 

petroleum, 46 

staphisagria, 340 

thuja, 48, 340 
TEMPERAMENT 

belladonna, 406 

calcarea ostrearum, 406 

capsicum, 434 

chamomilla, 248 

cina, 247 

ignatia, 197 

ipecacuanha, 377, 383 

lycopodium, 440 

nux vomica, 183 

Pulsatilla, 194, 344 



TEMPERAMENT (Continued) 

staphisagria, 338 
TESTICLES 

arnica, 352 

aurum, 352 

bromine, 503 

conium, 352 

oxalic acid, 352 

phosphorus, 352 

Pulsatilla, 352 

spongia, 352, 512 

staphisagria, 352 

ustilago, 352 
TETANUS 

aconite, 180 

angustura, 180 

belladonna, 181 

camphor, 183 

cicuta, 178, 181, 182, 537 

curare, 179 

hydrocyanic acid, 181, 537 

hypericum, 181 

lachesis, 44, 81 

nicotinum, 181, 182 

passiflora, 179 

physostigma, 178, 195 

Phytolacca, 179 

picrotoxin, 178 

pothos foetida, 216 

silicea, 181 

stramonium, 183 

strychnia, 177 

tabacum, 182 

thebaine, 178 

veratria, 1 78 

veratrum album, 182 

veratrum viride, x8i 
THROAT 

(See also Tonsillitis.) 

alumina, 619, 685, 740 

apis, 740 

argentum nitricum, 609, 619, 685, 740 

arsenicum album, 95, 596 

arsenicum iod., 596 

arum triphyllum, 95, 209 

aurum, 602 

baryta carb., 651 

belladonna, 95, 172, 412, 596 

borax, 710 

calcarea ostrearum, 498 

cantharis, 95 

capsicum, 95, 435, 596 

carbo veg., 740 

cinnabaris, 595 

diffenbachia, 95 

dulcamara, 434 

gelsemium, 173 

graphites, 498 

hepar, 619, 685, 740 

ignatia, 201, 203 

kali bichromicum, 722 

kali carb., 739, 740 

lachesis, 49 

mercurius, 190, 594, 685 

mercurius cor., 95, 596 

natrum ars., 706 



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THERAPEUTIC INDEX, 



THROAT (Continued) 

natrum mur., 702 

nitric acid, 535, 609, 619, 685 

nux vomica, 190 

phosphorus, 567 

Pulsatilla, 349 

sulphur, 498 
TIC DOULOUDEUX 

aconite, 321 
TINEA CAPITIS 

sarsaparilla, 311 
TINEA CILIARIS 

thuja, 310 
TINEA FAVOSA 

nux juglans, 168, 234 
TONGUE 

antimonium crudum, 377. 578 

arsenicum album, 333, 353, 698 

arsenicum metallicum, 454 

baryta carb., 649 

bryonia, 568, 570 

causticum, 731 

colchicum, 650 

dulcamara, 434 

kali bichromicum, 725 

lycopodium, 442 

magnesia mur., 647 

mercurius, 226, 454 

natrum mur., 333, 698 

nux vomica, 377 

phosphorus, 567 

podophyllum, 454 

ranunculus sceleratus, 333 

rhus tox., 226, 333, 454, 567 

stannum, 624 

stramonium, 425, 454 

sulphur, 293 

taraxacum, 229, 244, 333 

yucca filamentosa, 454 
TONSILLITIS 

ammonium mur., 664 

amygdala persica, 414 

baryta carb., 651 

belladonna, 414, 592 

bromine, 503 

calcarea ostr., 651 

calcarea phos., 651 

fluoric acid, 414 

gelsemium, 173 

hepar, 414, 592, 684, 685 

ignatia, 201, 651 

lachesis, 49, 592 

lycopodium, 414, 454, 651 

mercurius, 414, 592, 685 

nux vomica, 722 

sabadilla, 258 

silicea, 414, 546, 5:92 

sulphur, 414, 592 
TONSILS, ENLARGEMENT OF THE 

baryta carb., 651 

bromine, 503 

calcarea iod., 651 

conium, 651 

hepar, 651 

ignatia, 651 

lycopodium, 651 



TOOTHACHE 

aranea diadema, 81 

bryonia, 300 

chamomilla, 645 

coffea, 301, 384 

ignatia, 203 

magnesia carb., 645 

mercurius, 47, 81 

ratanhia, 645 

rhus tox., 236 
TORTICOLLIS 

agaricus, 194 

anacardium, 231 

belladonna, 192, 422 

bryonia, 422 

causticum, 194 

guaiacum, 422 

lachnanthes, 194 

nux vomica, 194, 422 

trifolium prat., 296 
TRACHEITIS 

phosphorus, 570 
TRACHOMA 

sepia, 130 
TRICHIASIS 

borax, 710 

graphites, 710 
TUBERCULAR MENINGITIS 

apis, 100, 103, 327, 470 

helleborus, 337 

sulphur, 104, 469 
TUBERCULOSIS 

(See also Phthisis.) 

arsenicum, 558 

bromine, 507 

calcarea ostrearum, 470, 672 

calcarea phos., 670 

conium, 448 

ferrum, 641 

guaiacum, 215 

hepar, 513, 685 

lachesis, 52 

lapis albus, 510 

natrum ars., 707 

nitric acid, 670 

oleum jecoris aselli, 29 

phosphoric acid, 530 

phosphorus, 470, 564, 571, 669, 673 

Pulsatilla, 345, 3S5 

silicea, 546 

spongia, 513, 686 

sulphur, 469, 470, 474, 572 
TYMPANITES 

carbo veg., 253, 261, 271, 487 

cinchona, 252, 261, 370, 487 

cocculus, 252 

colchicum, 251, 261, 271, 370 

lycopodium, 261, 271, 487 

morphia, 265 

opium, 261, 270 

raphanus, 261 

sulphur, 261 

terebinthina, 271, 370 
TYPHLITIS 

belladonna, 60 

bryonia, 60 



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TYPHLITIS (Continued) 

lachesis, 54, 60 

mercurius, 54, 59 

mercurius cor., 60 

opium, 272 

rhus tox., 60, 234 
TYPHOID FEVER AND TYPHOID CON- 
DITIONS 

absinthium, 243 

aconite, 317 

ailanthus, 403 

alumen, 537 

anacardium, 218 

apis, 100, 107, 108, 268, 523 

arnica, 40, 228, 239, 336, 402, 527, 659 

arsenicum, 227, 252, 430, 467, 537, 552. 
555 

baptisia, 40, 228, 239, 272, 399, 467, 523 

belladonna, 292, 410 

bryonia, 261, 290, 523 

calcarea ostr., 293, 442, 675 

carbo veg., 228, 253, 261, 483, 566 

castoreum, 27, 117 

chlorine, 511 

cinchona, 252, 556 

cocculus, 260 

colchicum, 251, 271, 556 

gelsemium, 173, 261, 401 

hamamelis, 537 

helleborus, 39, 335 

hydrocyanic acid, 336 

hyoscyamus, 39, 228, 268, 410, 430 

lachesis, 39, 108, 268, 402, 430 

leptandra, 537 

lycopodium, 430, 441, 446, 675 

mercurius, 226 

muriatic acid, 40, 108, 228, 403, 430, 522 

nitric acid, 522, 536 

nux vomica, 196 

opium, 39, 268, 272, 335, 336, 528 

petroleum, 500 

phosphoric acid, 228, 334, 430, 523, 527 

phosphorus, 227, 336, 527, 565, 571 

psorinum, 150 

sulphuric acid, 531 

ranunculus sceleratus, 333 

rhus tox., 40, 225, 226, 292, 402, 410, 430, 
523, 527, 552 

selenium, 459 

stramonium, 272, 431 

sulphur, 467 

sweet spirits of nitre, 335, 336, 527 

taraxacum, 228, 244 

terebinthina, 66, 305 

veratrum album, 252 

zincum, 102 

zincum oxid., 102 

ULCERS 

arsenicum, 62, 63, 156, 445, 561 

asafoetida, 62, 119, 450, 545, 602 

borax, 125, 711 

bromine, 510 

bufo, 30, 63 

calcarea ostrearum, 534 

carbo veg., 63, 482 



ULCERS (Continued) 

chromic acid, 723 

cinchona, 63 

euphorbia corrollata, 63 

euphorbium, 63 

fluoric acid,. 520 

hepar, 62, 63, 687 

iodine, 510 

kali bichromicum, 63, 722 

lachesis, 62 

lycopodium, 62, 63, 445 

mercurius, 62, 63, 534 

mercurius corr., 597 

mezereum, 125, 677 

muriatic acid, 63 

nitric acid, 63, 310, 534, 535 

phosphoric acid, 03 

phosphorus, 62, 568, 574, 683 

plumbum, 63 

psorinum, 149 

ranunculus bulb., 332 

ranunculus sceleratus, 333 

rhus tox., 445 

secale, 63, 156 

sepia, 125, 711 

silicea, 62, 63, 520, 544, 574 

sulphur, 62 

thuja, 309 

vespa, 145 
URAEMIA 

ammonium carb., 659 

arsenicum, 94 

arum triphyllum, 209 

cannabis indica, 00 

cantharis, 94 

cuprum, 629 

hydrocyanic acid, 433 

plumbum, 623 
URETHRA 

cantharis, 86, 90 

capsicum, 91 

clematis erecta, «;0, 97 

conium, 91 

doryphora, 97 
URETHRITIS 

cannabis sativa, 89 

cantharis, 88 

conium, 91 

doryphora, 91 

hyoscyamus, 91 
URINARY ORGANS 

apis, 92, 93 

apocynum, 163 

argentum nitricum, 91 

berberis, 93, 452 

camphor, 93 

cannabis indica, 90 

cannabis sativa, 89 

cantharis, 87 

capsicum, 92 

chimaphila, 92 

clematis, 90 

cochlearia, 92 

conium, 91 

copaiva, 92 

cubebs, 91 



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THKRAPKUTIC INDEX. 



URINARY ORGANS (Continued) 
digitalis, 92 
doryphora, 91 
equisetum, 90 
erigeron, 92 
eupatorium purp., 90 
ferrum phos., 92 
hydrocotyle, 145 
hyoscyamus, 91 
kali nitricum, 93 
kreosotum, 136 
linaria, 90 
mercurius, 90, 91 
mercurius aceticus, 92 
mercurius cor., 91 
pareira brava, 93, 453 
petroselinum, 90 ' ■ 
Pulsatilla, 92, 271 
selenium, 306 
thuja, 91 
uva ursi, 93 

URINE 

aconite, 710 
ammonium benz., 66 
apis, 66 

apocynum can.^ 163 
argentum nitricum, 610 
arnica, 66 
arsenicum, 66 
belladonna, 416 
benzoic acid, 66, 534 
berberis, 452 
borax, 710 
bryonia, 301 
calcarea ostr., 453 
cantharis, 306 
carbolic acid, 66 
carbo veg., 66 
causticum, 271, 737 
colchicum, 66 
copaiva, 306 
digitalis, 66 
helleborus, 66 
hyoscyamus, 442 
kali carb., 66, 737 
lachesis, 66 
lithium carb., 655 
lycopodium, 271, 442, 710 
natrum mur., 66 
nitric acid., 534 
opium, 66, 271 
osmium, 306 
Pulsatilla, 271 
sarsaparilla, 710 
senna, 737 
stramonium, 271 
terebinthina, 66, 306. 
zincum, 637 
zingiber, 271 

URINE, RETENTION OF 

arsenicum, 271 
cantharis, 89 
causticum, 271, 734 
hyoscyamus, 271 
opium, 271 



URINE, SUPPRESSION OF THE 
lycopodium, 271 
Pulsatilla, 271 
stramonium, 271 
zingiber, 271 

URTICARIA 

apis, 106, 705 

arsenicum, 107, 560 

bovista, 107 

calcarea ostrearum, 107, 705 

copaiva, 87, 107 

dulcamara, 434 

kali bromatum, 107 

medusa, 31 

natrum mur., 705 

Pulsatilla, 107 

rhus tox., 107 

rumex, 107 

sepia, 107 

terebinthina, 107 

urtica urens, 107 

UTERINE HAEMORRHAGE 

(See Metrorrhagia.) 

UTERUS 

actea rac, 143, 327, 356 
aletris, 359 
aloe, 137 
apis, 112 

argentum nitr., 615 
aurum, 139, 603, 615 
aurum mur., 139 
aurum mur. natr., 139 
bovista, 157 
cactus, 133 
carbo an., 490 
caulophyllum, 146, 356 
convallaria, 393 
gelsemium, 175, 176 
helonias, 134, 357, 615 
hydrastis, 360 
kreosote, 136 
lilium tigrinum, 133, 360 
magnesia mur., 202, 647 
mel cum sale, 112, 415 
murex, 135 
mix vomica, 136 
palladium, 79, 615 
platina, 140 
podophyllum, 138 
Pulsatilla, 138, 625 
secale, 154 
senecio, 359 
sepia, 133, 615 
stannum, 136 
sulphur, 135 
tarentula, 76 
ustilago, 157 

UTERUS, INDURATION OF THE 
magnesia mur., 202 

UVULA ELONGATED 
capsicum, 435 
hyoscyamus, 427 
mentha piperita, 428 
natrum mur., 427, 703 



THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



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VACCINATION, ILL EFFECTS OF 

silicea, 307, 542 

thuja, 307, 542 
VAGINITIS 

helonias, 357 
VARICOCELE 

hamamelis, 346 

Pulsatilla, 346 
VARICOSE \EINS 

ambra, 152 

carbo veg., 141, 441, 482 

fluoric acid, 521 

hamamelis, 346, 521 

lycopodium, 441 

Pulsatilla, 346 
VARIOLA 

anacardium, 218 

antimonium tart., 303, 581, 583 

apis, 107 

rhus tox., 233, ^34 

thuja, 308 
VERTEBRAL CARIES 

carbo veg., 483 

Gettysburg water, 341, 545, 656 

phosphoric acid, 530 

phosphorus, 573 

silicea, 544 

sulphur, 573 
VERTIGO 

ambra grisea, 151 

apis, 82 

argentum nitr., 608 

arsenicum, 37, 82 

bromine, 502 

camphor, 37 

causticum, 730 

chelidonium, 85 

conium, 448 

digitalis, 37 

ferrum, 641 

hydrocyanic acid, 37 

kali carb., 736 

lachesis, 36 

laurocerasus, 37 

moschus, 37 

oleander, 165 

petroleum, 82 

picric acid, 539 

piper meth., 82, 385 

rhus tox., 234 

sanguinaria, 276 

sepia, 82 

silicea, 548 

theridion, 37, 82 

thuja, 82 

veratrum alb., 37 
VESICAL CALCULUS 

hydrangea, 92 

pareira brava, 93 
VESICAL IRRITATION 

capsicum, 92 

capaiva, 92 

curare, 206 

digitalis, 92 

epigea, 92 

erigeron, 92, 139 



VESICAL IRRITATION (Continued) 

eupatorium, purp., 90, 145 

ferrum phos., 92 

inula, 146 

mitchella repens, 145, 158 

petroselinum, 90 

Pulsatilla, 92 
VOMITING 

aethusa cynap., 420, 578, 671 

antimonium crud., 450, 578, 671 

antimonium tart., 265, 387 

apomorphia, 265, 436 

arsenicum, 565, 672 

belladonna, 226, 417 

bismuth, 565 

cadmium sulph., 555 

calcarea acetica, 450 

calcarea ostr., 450, 671 

colchicum, 59 

digitalis, 388 

glonoin, 266, 436 

ipecacuanha, 579, 672 

kreosote, 136, 565, 671 

lachesis, 55 

lobelia, 265, 387 

magnesia carb., 672 

nux vomica, 184 

phosphorus, 672 

rhus tox., 265, 417 

sulphur, 672 

tabacum, 387 

veratrum alb., 59 
VOMITING OF PREGNANCY 

anacardium, 220 

argentum nitricum, 607 

digitalis, 388 

nux vomica, 193, 220, 691 

petroleum, 499 

WARTS 

causticum, 694 

nitric acid, 535 

thuja, 310 
WAXY LIVER 

phosphorus, 567 
WHITE-SWELLING 

phosphorus, 573 

sulphur, 470 
WINE, AGGRAVATION FROM 

antimonium crud., 632 

bovista, 632 

carbo veg., 632 

conium, 632, 634 

fluoric acid, 632 

glonoin, 632, 634 

ledum, 032 

lycopodium, 632 

nux vomica, 632, 634 

Pulsatilla, 632 

rhododendron, 632, 634 

selenium, 462, 632 

silicea, 632 

zincum, 632, 634 
WHOOPING-COUGH 

ambra grisea, 152 



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THERAPEUTIC INDEX. 



WHOOPING-COUGH (Continued) 

antimonium tart., 581 

arnica, 242 

bryonia, 296 

cina, 247, 382 

coccus cacti,* 32, 627 

corallium rubrum, 27, 31 

cuprum, 682 

drosera, 27 

ipecacuanha, 382 

kali bichromicum, 32 

kali carb., 741 

mephitis, 27, 31 

senega, 32 

veratrum album, 704 
WORMS 

aconite, 246 

argemone mex., 274 

arsenicum, 632 



WORMS (Continued) 
artemesia, 624 
caladium seguinum, 247 
cicuta, 451 
cina, 246, 624 
ignatia, 203, 256 
indigo, 203, 247 
quassia, 247 
sabadilla, 258 
spigelia, 206 
stannum, 624, 625 
teucrium, 203 

YELLOW ATROPHY OF THE LIVER 

phosphorus, 567 
YELLOW FEVER 

cadmium sulph., 555 
carbo veg., 483 
lachesis, 55 




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